How to Use sacking in a Sentence

sacking

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  • This Open Cup match will be a battle, and the sacking of Neville offers new intrigue for the game.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 2 June 2023
  • But don’t be fooled—his biggest regret isn’t the mass sacking of his peers.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no way to stop the sacking of the cities by the number of legislators that are from rural.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The sacking of the village would be complete if not for the intervention of Moiraine.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Insert your own quip about a volcanic sacking of Rome here.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • The country star was not the only one weighing in on Tucker’s sacking.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But Cameron’s return compounded the anger felt by some on the right of the party after her sacking.
    — Reuters, Fortune Europe, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Still, the then-President did nothing while the sacking of the Capitol carried on.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • But the other big development of the day — the sacking of Braverman — surprised no one.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The sacking of Diess proves just how unwieldy managing the VW Group can be with its three main groups of stakeholders.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 July 2022
  • Trump, the top House Republican said, deserves censure for his role in the sacking of the Capitol, and that contrary to his claims, the 2020 election was not stolen.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2021
  • This has never rung so true as when seen in the context of the recent sacking of 800 British workers by one of the UK’s leading ferry companies.
    — London Business School, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • His sacking made national news when Borglum destroyed the Stone Mountain models and fled the state.
    — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • But the Bills are back in 2023, minus a couple of changes such as the sacking of defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • After his sacking, Altman quickly lined up a landing at Microsoft, where he was set to lead an AI research team.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Scarcely a year went by without reports of his imminent sacking.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 July 2022
  • Jordan has been a leading figure in trying to blame Pelosi for the sacking of Congress -- over security failings -- rather than Trump.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 27 July 2021
  • The interim head of state, Col. Assisi Goita, led the sacking of Keïta’s temporary replacement last spring and put himself in charge.
    — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The chaos surrounding Altman’s brief sacking made that obvious.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • One is into his sacking of the federal police commander, to protect one of his sons from prosecution, say his critics.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • A lot of media folk still argue that the investigation of Hunter Biden’s business associate had ended before the elder Biden called for the sacking of the prosecutor.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2021
  • But narratively speaking, to paraphrase Sapochnik, one event that occurs later in the history of Westeros is the sacking of King's Landing, which means a lot of stuff gets destroyed.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 July 2022
  • Regragui, who took over the team after the sacking of Vahid Halilhodzic in August, pushed the Moroccan federation to open up the national team to anyone who qualified.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • These concerns have been reinforced by the sacking of staff responsible for making Twitter less toxic and more trustworthy.
    — Jacob McHangama, Time, 5 Dec. 2022
  • An outside investigation that followed Guillén’s death led to a shake-up at Fort Hood that included the sacking of the acting post commander and two top division leaders.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • In 2011 during the Arab Spring, protesters in Sohar demanding higher pay, jobs for the unemployed and the sacking of government ministers set fire to a supermarket.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • Anwar was a former deputy prime minister whose sacking and imprisonment in the 1990s led to massive street protests and a reform movement that became a major political force.
    — Time, 24 Nov. 2022
  • After months of internal angst, Garland signed off on seditious conspiracy charges in January against a group of right-wing extremists accused in the sacking of the Capitol on January 6.
    — Evan Perez, CNN, 6 Mar. 2022
  • There was no explanation for the sacking of Khamis, but the move appeared aimed at deflecting public anger, which has regularly targeted the prime minister but rarely the president himself.
    — Albert Aji, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
  • Yet his unrivaled power inside the G.O.P., one year after inciting the sacking of the Capitol to forcibly forestall the certification of the election, is a testament to his unrelenting hold on the loyalty of the party base.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022

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