Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 2 | At least 2,000 died in Badajoz alone , most of them machine-gunned in the bullring ; thousands more perished at the hands of the Legionaries , the Moors or the right-wing militias in other towns and villages of Andalusia and Extremadura . |
| 3 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 4 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 5 | Of the 120,000 people who attended the three day meeting last year , 33 suffered at the hands of pickpockets despite a huge police crime prevention campaign . |
| 6 | As you know , we too suffered at the hands of the law on the freedom of speech issue with NWA . |
| 7 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 8 | There are many cases recorded in which Christian subjects petitioned the sultan to redress grievances which they suffered at the hands of overbearing church leaders , and where the sultan acted in the interests of the petitioners . |
| 9 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
| 10 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 11 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 12 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 13 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 14 | The heroes of the faith who died at the hands of the persecutor had long enjoyed special honour among Christians , as , before them , among Jews . |
| 15 | A POLICEMAN beaten and stabbed to death when he was called to a disturbance died at the hands of a brutal generation with no concept of right or wrong , a close friend said at his funeral yesterday . |
| 16 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 17 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot . |
| 18 | Historians agree they then died at the hands of Stalin . |
| 19 | He died at the hands of cowards who hide behind masks and get away with murder . |
| 20 | It was almost as if the Israelis were saying ‘ if you think the Palestinians are suffering , see how more than six million of our people died at the hands of the Nazis ’ . |
| 21 | Isabelle says part of the reason for her previous reluctance to speak of their personal life is the rough handling they experienced at the hands of the French press , with their sarcastic digs at Eric 's love of painting and poetry . |
| 22 | He was behind most of the attacks that usually floundered at the hands , feet or body of Lincoln 's inspired keeper Ian Bowling — who played for most of the game with a suspected smashed ankle . |