Ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Change will not come from recalling the bloodletting that Americans have engaged in. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Inaugural Address: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] Reference
Letting someone else use your blood is not the same as bloodletting, which is part of many ancient cultures. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In caves throughout Mesoamerica, the Maya once performed rituals such as bloodletting and sacrifice to the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig: Maya Caves of West-Central Belize] Reference
That kind of bloodletting from the left would be worse in the House, which already passed a fairly strict cap-and-trade measure last year. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bill: Something for Everyone, Everything for No One] Reference
In drastic cases, surgery known as "bloodletting" was performed to release blood and semen from the body. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
They warned that so-called "no fault" divorces were encouraging warring parents to channel their "bloodletting" into disputes over contact. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news] Reference
Marked a kind of bloodletting in Chilean literature. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Now, I'm all in favor of a good political bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [The GOP's Natural] Reference
Is the rest of the world waiting for some bloodletting?. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Vengeance] Reference
The bloodletting will start this Christmas, then escalate. From Wordnik.com. [Fight To The Finish] Reference
Until that leadership emerges, there may be more bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [FIGHT, THEN TALK?] Reference
Layoffs are more like bloodletting, weakening the entire organism. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Off the Layoffs] Reference
How much bloodletting is necessary depends on the person's saturation level. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Albatross] Reference
(China's Tiananmen Square bloodletting didn't take place until 10 months later.). From Wordnik.com. [The Problem With Burma] Reference
The jobs lost in corporate downsizing will not come back, and the bloodletting isn't over yet. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT TO DO NEXT] Reference
All the talk of bloodletting has made El Pasoans warier than ever of their southern neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodshed On the Border] Reference
Though the company will lose money again this year, he says: "This is the final bloodletting.". From Wordnik.com. [On The Road To Regret?] Reference
'Maybe we need bloodletting like the ancient Romans - as ritual - but not real like the Roman circus.'. From Wordnik.com. [Violence In Our Culture] Reference
But military sources say that top Pentagon officials hope to avoid the bloodletting of a major inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Ducking A Somalia Inquest?] Reference
Given the paucity of pants, seems like all that ritual bloodletting may be making him too weak to shop. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
It might well be called a bloody war, for few escaped without bearing the scars of wounds and bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
"This," he sighed in the midst of one bloodletting, "is absolutely the most depressing time of the year for me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Austerity] Reference
American actress Demi Moore, joking about a recent bloodletting treatment as part of an Austrian spa's detox plan. From Wordnik.com. [Perspectives] Reference
Two years ago Ambon (population: 270,000) erupted in Christian-Muslim bloodletting of an almost medieval intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Terror Islands] Reference
Which is why China, Thailand, India and Russia have been muted in their condemnation of Burma's recent bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [It's the Oil and Gas, Stupid] Reference
The First Primary of '08In fact, the race for the 2008 GOP nomination has begun, and it could well be a bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Food Fight in the Big Tent] Reference
Daoud thought he understood Lapo, gauging him as a man who had little experience of war but who enjoyed bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Many of them believe that forceful, early international intervention might have averted the last decade's bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [A Diplomatic Race Against Disaster] Reference
I keep waiting for the bloodletting to begin, the ritual slaughter of careers that comes with controversy in the capital. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Waiting For The Heads to Roll] Reference
If the United States were to leave Iraq tomorrow, it is virtually certain that the bloodletting would spread like a virus. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward] Reference
The reason for this wholesale bloodletting was the directive handed down by the new boss, Obama appointee Rocco Landesman. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in the Life of a Hip-Hop Grants Administrator] Reference
Bohun, in the seventeenth-century tradition of treatment by clysters, vomitives, and phlebotomy, resorted to bloodletting. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
Muslim leaders condemned the bloodletting as ethnic cleansing; the Serbs retorted that they were fighting Muslim terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [The Wolf At The Door] Reference
Drug therapeutics, clysters, and bloodletting did by no means exhaust the seventeenth-century physician's treatments and remedies. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
She told me she's collected the names of 195 victims of the bloodletting — mostly workers — whose relatives have dared to come forward. From Wordnik.com. [When We Talk About Tiananmen] Reference
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