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How to use the word behead in a Sentence?

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They are frightening the people, they behead people, explode bombs in markets, they still create an atmosphere where it is impossible for people to escape from them.

Mustafa Bali

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Closing Guantanamo Bay will have no impact on terrorist recruitment and radicalization, there is not a single case that I am aware of where a moderate, peace-loving Muslim became angry over the Gitmo issue and suddenly decided to wage violent jihad, behead innocent people, implement theocracy and commit human rights abuses like executing gays and abusing women.

Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Short term, they may win, the long-term solution for Iraq may not be a unified state if the only message they (Sunnis in Anbar province) get is either join ISIS, which will behead you, or support the government, which brings in rival Shia militias to oust the Sunnis. It's a very difficult political situation.

Philip Mudd

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The first allegation is that, between 15 and 26 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to commit an act of terrorism, namely to carry out an attack at an ANZAC parade in Australia with the aim of killing and/or causing serious injury to people, the second allegation is that on 18 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to behead someone in Australia.

Deborah Walsh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Middle East is plagued by anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-American extremism. Terrorists brutally behead their shackled captives before video cameras. Despots lead their people in chants of 'Death to America' while building intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach America.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Look, the point is this: my first job is to protect the American people, it is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They are systematically removing people from compounds who they believe are ring leaders, i mean, they really think that they can behead the movement by removing a handful of individuals from the compounds, but it's patently not the case.

Ian Rintoul

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I mean, they really think that they can behead the movement by removing a handful of individuals from the compounds, but it's patently not the case.

Ian Rintoul

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When did (the Prophet) Muhammad ever behead anyone? when did he take a knife and slaughter an innocent journalist?

Selvedin Beganovic

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings risks to the lives of the people we deploy, these insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They behead people ; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people.

Tim Collins

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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