7 sentences with 'trials'
Example sentences and phrases with the word trials and other words derived from it.
• « The initiation trials of Siberian and Uralaltaic shamans consisted of a profound encounter with death. »
• « As participants in the natural order, the Stoics believed that humans must learn to accept the trials and tribulations of life rationally, without succumbing to emotion (hence the contemporary meaning of the word "stoic": one who is indifferent to pain or discomfort). »
• « Caligula used treason trials to enrich himself after squandering the treasury on public buildings and games. »
• « Communist leaders were subjected to show trials, both in their own countries and sometimes after being brought to Moscow, where they were first tortured into confessing to various fabricated crimes (collaboration with Western powers to overthrow communism was very popular), and then executed. »
• « It should be noted that in this period, especially in the early 1950s, anti-Semitism became a staple of the trials and purges, and latent anti-Semitic sentiments also surfaced and Jewish communist leaders suffered a disproportionate number of arrests and executions, often accused of being secretly "Zionist" in league with the West. »
• « Are you a medical enigma? If so, you may be embarking on a merry-go-round of specialists, clinical trials and endless treatments. »
• « The prosecutor was preparing four murder trials, and had no desire to take on another case. However, when he began to read the detective's report, he knew he was going to take this one. »