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How to use the word Burial in a Sentence?

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We( The Islamic Center of New Mexico) thought after burial of these two young men( on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate, waking up Saturday morning to Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . ''( Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . '') death, the whole community just feels helpless. There's a lot of fear.

Tahir Gauba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We thought after burial of these two young men( on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate.

Tahir Gauba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He stopped by to say' Hey, what's going on ?' He was worried. I told him to be careful, we thought after burial of these two young men( on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate.

Tahir Gauba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Burial within the context of the Black church was not simply a recognition of death, but it was a recognition of life, that this person was substantive, had impact on the world, and that they had to be recognized and celebrated for who they were in a much fuller sense.

Anthony Pinn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since August 2019, a family has been searching for information about their missing son. Today, we shared with them the tragic details of his death and will be able to return his remains to them for a proper burial, this is yet another case of relationship violence that turned into a murder.

Kevin Steele

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally -- more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls' rectal rehydration,' but as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.

Stephen Breyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I would like to say this on a closing note, president Joe Biden, if you are listening, we implore you and we advise you to work with our brothers and sisters in the United States, because there are many unmarked graves in your country. Work with those chiefs and councils and survivors to help give those bodies a proper burial.

Chief Cameron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of the early burial grounds were associated with plantations or land that people didn’t own, they’re really vulnerable to development if people don’t know they’re there.

Barbara Heath

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Many of these families because of Covid don't have money for a proper funeral and a proper burial. And that is just awful and inhumane.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They still want to do traditional things, they want to have a burial.

Patrick Monroe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The technological capability to identify and verify unmarked burial sites through subsurface scanning or other means was far less robust 70 years ago, while the Corps made every effort at the time to locate unmarked burials.

Cesar Yabor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The tombs with non-Egyptian burial customs were especially intriguing typically males buried with bronze weaponry in constructed tombs, without scarabs or other protective amulets like Egyptians would have been buried with, the most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status.

Chris Stantis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status.

Chris Stantis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The prestige of the burial makes this very likely a socially sanctioned union and speaks of a hierarchy so extreme that the only partners worthy of the elite were family members.

Dan Bradley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The thing the politicians should be doing is talking about Hart Island differently because it's the largest natural burial ground in the United States, it's a really beautiful location, and it's already transferred to Parks. They will take over in July 2021 and turn it into a beautiful place.

Melinda Hunt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A Hart Island burial is not disrespectful, it's a very sacred place.

Melinda Hunt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A decent burial does not involve prison inmates burying your loved one.

Melinda Hunt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What is key here is the intentionality behind the burial. You might bury a body for purely practical reasons, in order to avoid attracting dangerous scavengers and/or to reduce the smell. But when this goes beyond practical elements it is important because that indicates more complex, symbolic and abstract thinking, compassion and care for the dead, and perhaps feelings of mourning and loss.

Emma Pomeroy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The manner of this individual's death, or subsequent burial, may have enabled the brain's long-term preservation.

Axel Petzold

Found on CNN
4 years ago

By the time the burial took place I was just wiped out; I was just glad they were doing it. I was tired of it not being done, but a lot of people didn't feel like that. They hadn't been aware of what was happening.

Nadia Milleron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are looking into taking legal action against EA - not of course to exhume and re-organize the burial, that's done - but to make sure we secure a leading role in planning for a future memorial, eA are clearly on a corporate strategy to 'tidy up' the remaining issues so as to get the whole episode out of the public eye.

Adrian Toole

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This burial was located beneath a mortar surface which was related to a building constructed before 1681, so we know the dog died before the construction of this building.

Alfred Hawkins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For me, closure would be just know if my baby was on his property so that I can just have a proper burial.

Serena Dyksen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were inspired to study these individuals based on their unusual burial context as well as the identification of two different types of artificial cranial deformation in two of the individuals.

Daniel Fernandes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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