Adrian McKinty

I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

Irish Novelist

Stanley Hauerwas

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

American Theologian

Norman Schwarzkopf

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

American General

Germaine Greer

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Australian Activist

Tim O'Brien

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

American Author

Jane Leavy

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

American Writer

Hanoi Hannah

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

Vietnamese Celebrity

William Butler Yeats

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Irish Poet

R. W. Apple, Jr.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

American Journalist

Lawrence Taylor

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

American Athlete

Refers to causing serious, often permanent, injuries that impair someone's physical abilities or appearance.

Physical Harm

Carries a heavy emotional implication, highlighting the severity and tragedy of an injury.

Emotional Weight

Often implies the injury was a result of intentional actions or violent events, not mere accidents.

Not Accidental

Refers to the act of spoiling or defacing objects, often with a sense of vandalism or irreversibility.

Damage to Objects

Can be used metaphorically to express the damaging of intangible things like reputations or relationships.

Figurative Use

Implies that the damage done is not easily repaired and may last indefinitely, often damaging the value or function.

Permanent Consequences

 even just seaweed out there in the oceans, which a lot of families were utilizing, or in the deserts where all the plants look like they want to hurt you or maim you. The Indigenous peoples knew how to live with them. And another piece like the domesticated piece, with all the agriculture, it's really important,

Sean Sherman: Why aren't...

 And we desperately need the help of the private sector. We need the help of the tech industry. To help us develop -- not help us, we want them to develop -- information management systems, so we can all talk to each other and stop these perpetrators from raping and maiming and killing with impunity.

What happened when we...

 and and maimed mall for a maimed collection almost four decades later how would this building expand for a new progressive program where would it go can't go in the mall there is no space there it can't go in the courtyard it's already taken up by landscape and by

A giant bubble for...

 that if she was a loving parent, she wouldn't vaccinate. Now, when I encountered this and I talked to my mom, it didn't obviously go well at first, because I was wanting to do something that she thought would either cause autism or maim me for the rest of my life,

Why we need to fight...

 so that more people think that if we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots and not cheat, steal, maim, kill, but that if we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

Peter Singer: The why...

 and the the theme tune stuck in my head and will be forever lamentably so um they will get their full Mane's probably in about three years or so they will start to look full maimed in about a year and a half or so I guess that'll

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 are killed or maimed by landmines each year landmines prevent construction of homes roads schools and hospitals formerly war-torn parts of Africa and Asia feel the impact especially hard because

Finding landmines using...

 But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. Addiction is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill,

A glimpse of life on the...

 to throw a flash bang grenade into the crib of a little boy, exploding near his face and maiming him for life. The fact is, most violence everywhere happens to people on the wrong side of town

A path to security for...

 stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in

Maim

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