Příklady ordeal

• It has survived its ordeals and come a long way.

• A comprehensive assessment of the repressive force of the law of libel must take these ordeals into account.

• Thus, frightening and physically painful ordeals, such as those endured in rites of passage, will impact memory and belief.

• The ordeal carried no association of degradation despite its often painful nature.

• But only divine power could explain her triumph in this ultimate ordeal.

• But it has safely survived the ordeal of renewing subscriptions.

• Once the champion had ritually offered his body as the vehicle for truth, the ordeal was expected to work.

• It took herculean efforts to survive the ordeal of fighting in such inhospitable space.

• Disputed accusations of witchcraft could only be settled by ordeal and always resulted in enslavement.

• But still the overwhelming majority of ordeals used the human body in a manner that tested also its pain endurance.

• From this perspective, ritual specialists who found judicial evidence in the suspect's body through ordeal or autopsy illustrated the monstrous, regressive state of local politics.

• Tamino awaits the last difficult trial, an ordeal that must be overcome.

• Even defendants who were ultimately acquitted had to pass through ordeals of legal intimidation that often left mental and financial scars.

• To reflect pregnancy and childbirth, the simile would have to include an additional and more traumatic ordeal at the end of the nine months.

• Determining her motif, she determines the nature of her trial, an ordeal by battle.