Examples of using Set themselves on fire in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Buddhist monks set themselves on fire.
Monks set themselves on fire to protest and to make this point.
Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire.
Nine monks have set themselves on fire in recent months to protest what they consider China's religious repression.
People go to Tiananmen Square to sightsee, not to set themselves on fire.”.
Unless the protesters set themselves on fire, they're not our story.
In the past three months, three Tamil asylum seekers on temporary visas in Australia, facing theprospect of being returned to Sri Lanka, have set themselves on fire.
Cancers are incredibly family oriented and some of the kindest people you will ever meet,but they will often set themselves on fire to keep their loved ones warm.
The Xinhua News Agency, the official media of the Jiang regime, broadcast the news one hour after the event occurred,claiming that five Falun Gong practitioners had set themselves on fire.
The protests are unlikely to sway a Chinese population that has come to associate the tactic with the bannedFalun Gong spiritual movement after five of its members set themselves on fire on Tiananmen Square in 2001.
At least 35 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011 in protest against China's six-decade rule over Tibet, according to Tibetan rights groups.
Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest.
A turning point in the government's campaign against Falun Gong occurred on 23 January 2001,when five people set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square. Chinese government sources declared immediately they were Falun Gong practitioners driven to suicide by the practice, and filled the nation's media outlets with graphic images and fresh denunciations of the practice. The self-immolation was held up as evidence of the"dangers" of Falun Gong, and was used to legitimize the government's crackdown against the group.
This was a nonlinear event, and therefore unpredictable: many others set themselves on fire in protest without results.
There's a real sense that Thich Quang Duc andthe Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire in Saigon in 1963 were able to change American foreign policy and therefore bring down the government in South Vietnam,” Biggs said.
How can a ruling clique which causes human rights lawyers to disappear, which persecutes and tortures Falun Gong practitioners,which drives Tibetan monks to such despair that they set themselves on fire, and which hunts down North Korean refugeeson its northeast frontier ever expect to be regarded as anything but a barbaric regime, certainly unworthy of the name responsible stakeholder?
Soles of who commit suicide by setting themselves on fire never burn.
First off, nobody sets themselves on fire.
Now, before somebody falls off a roof or sets themselves on fire.
They have this nasty habit of setting themselves on fire.