How To Use Cockfight In A Sentence
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That kind of evidence would make me a cockfighter!
Waldo Jaquith - Cockfighters come out of the woodwork.
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Cockfighting (two roosters battling each other in a ring) commands a fanatical following.
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Despite being illegal in Ireland, the blood sport of cockfighting still takes place in some parts of the country.
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They're kind of bumpkinish, they have cockfights and stuff, and they don't really know the world outside the chicken farm.
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We've gone off bear-baiting and cockfighting, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cockfighting, also known as "cocking," is a bloodsport that dates to colonial times in the United States and has offered gamblers a venue for betting around the world.
Cracking Down on Cockfighting
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It isn't hard to guess that most westerners are appalled at the levels of violence and animal cruelty that go hand in hand with the sport of cockfighting.
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The stocky, pot-bellied man who wears a wide-brimmed hat made of palm leaves, admits cockfighting is brutal but says the roosters are born to fight.
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This festival combines church ceremonies with horse racing, bullfights, cockfights, and a spirited carnival.
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Stationed in Boston Father Smith is drawn into the seedy underworld of cockfighting.
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Some tourist agencies even promote cockfighting!
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You can legally own a gamecock in 18 states and visit a cockfight as a spectator in nine.
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The statute cited as banning cockfighting is quite clear that it is illegal for spectators and vendors to appear.
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Some women said they were turned off by his support for the bloody sport of cockfighting, an issue that was highlighted by ads from an animal rights group.
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An Indian cockfighting rooster appears to have taken deadly revenge on its trainer for forcing it back into the ring too soon, the Daily Mail of London reported.
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They live in Louisiana, Texas, and other surrounding states - where cockfighting is illegal.
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At the same time, he reminded individuals to keep away from engaging in gambling, such as cockfighting, which is popular during Holy Week.
Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
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If the right to hunt foxes is a question of civil liberties, so is the right to organise bear-baiting and cockfights.
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Until about 1830, many Americans gambled in taverns and at cockfights, while gentlemen bet on horse races.
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The Herald says the leftist president may be trying to bolster support among the lower classes, which are drawn to cockfighting, while targeting bullfighting, which is popular among the wealthy.
Ecuador's efforts to ban bullfighting has some fans seeing red
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Several boys try to catch a glimpse of a cockfight in the tannery section of the slums.
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Part of the adjacent tepidarium was also revealed, together with a furnace-house, service rooms and part of the palaestra or exercise-yard with the remains of a cockfighting pit.
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Anything else is theater, bullyism, gossip and cockfighting.
Nad hen j��c eto
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They are the kind of people who have little compassion for anything wild and are happy to participate in such pursuits as dogfighting and cockfighting.
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In both these cases, as with Devonshire wrestling, cockfighting or bull baiting, the sports had become less popular and/or illegal over the Victorian period.
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Sexual selection, by always allowing the victor to breed, might surely give indomitable courage, length to the spur, and strength to the wing to strike in the spurred leg, in nearly the same manner as does the brutal cockfighter by the careful selection of his best cocks.
IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. Sexual Selection
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I had invited a member of the animal rights group on to talk about cockfighting, of which I'm an advocate.
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It mainly includes: cockfighting, pan making, childhood hoop, country fair return, knife and scissor grinding, barber, sugar ball sale and dough figure making.
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Geertz's assertions about Balinese society emerge from the wholly male-dominated world of cockfighting.
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For men, cockfighting, partridge fighting, and pigeon flying (and betting on the outcome) are favorite pastimes.
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Fu Chuan, by Ch'en Hung, which tells how Chia Chang, a famous cockfighter, became so famous that he was loved by emperor and people alike.
Nobel Lecture The Chinese Novel
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The resolution doesn't have the force of law and wouldn't legalize cockfighting, which is prohibited in all 50 states.
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
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Do cockfighting or bear-baiting count as regional heritage?
Times, Sunday Times
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They are the kind of people who have little compassion for anything wild and are happy to participate in such pursuits as dogfighting and cockfighting.
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I will go with the judge on this one, although I generally think cockfighting is disgusting and repulsive.
Waldo Jaquith - Cockfighters come out of the woodwork.
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Other popular sports include horse racing and cockfighting.
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Cockfighting and bearbaiting are popular entertainments.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is noticeable that cockfighting is an exclusively male preoccupation, though this is not really analysed.
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There is a whole lot more going on at these cockfights than just the cockfighting, although that in itself is bad enough.
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Do we have congressional support of an appropriations bill to crack down on illegal cockfighting and dogfighting.
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The claim that Thomas Jefferson was a cockfighter is just malarkey!
Waldo Jaquith - Cockfighters come out of the woodwork.
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The researcher concurred that their ‘views of life have come from association with ‘flash-men’ of every order, with pugilists, pickpockets, cockfighters, and all the habitués of pot-houses or bucketshops.’
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The roysterous young dogs; carolling, howling, breaking the Lord Abbot's sleep, -- after that sinful chivalry cockfight of theirs!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Politicians, clergymen and newspaper columnists denounced it as brutal and abhorrent: no more than human cockfighting.
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They claim Washington was a cockfighter, but the historical record only shows he went to a cockfight when he was 19 and he left early.
Waldo Jaquith - Cockfighters come out of the woodwork.
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She is the director of the Humane Society campaign against animal cruelty and organized animal fighting, such as cockfighting.
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It also addressed issues that have fewer political and social repercussions, such as the restriction of bull- and cockfighting.
Ecuador's Correa Wins Referendum, but Challenges Remain
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We'd have cockfights every Friday and Saturday night.
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Rodney E. Bourgeois of Vacherie, LA, whodescribes himself as a husband, father, grandfather, Louisianian, veteran and cockfighter agrees.
On the Menu and on the Docket; Legislators Look at Fowl Foul Play
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Chuan, by Ch'en Hung, which tells how Chia Chang, a famous cockfighter, became so famous that he was loved by emperor and people alike.
Pearl Buck - Nobel Lecture
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The Hawaiian Humane Society and the Humane Society of the United States and other animal protection groups strongly objected to the notion of cockfighting as a cultural activity.
KITV.com - Local New
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You can legally own a gamecock in 18 states and visit a cockfight as a spectator in nine.
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If the right to hunt foxes is a question of civil liberties, so is the right to organise bear-baiting and cockfights.
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A poll last month indicated that 70 percent of Arizonans favor a state law to halt cockfight gambling.
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Gambling is popular among adults, but many traditional sports such as cockfighting have been banned.
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A crowd quickly assembled to watch the cockfight.
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And Hans stamped with his feet, and hooted at a distance, and hissed between his teeth, with all the zest of a modern cockfighter in the sport, rather to the scandal and shame of his more cautious and scrupulous companion.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
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PETA says breeders often mutilate their birds to give them a stronger chance in the ring, and the group has campaigned against cockfighting in the Philippines in the past.
The Ultimate Fighters
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Lentini [Sen. Art Lentini, R-Metairie, bansponsor] what is the cockfighter to do with his cocks?" implores a commentator on the New Orleans Times-Picayune web site.
On the Menu and on the Docket; Legislators Look at Fowl Foul Play
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It appears morally equivalent to blood sports such as bearbaiting and cockfighting that have been illegal for some two centuries.
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Caption :16. Gamblers gather for a cockfight.
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The state senate is currently considering a bill that would toughen penalties for cockfighting and dog fighting.
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Sen. Phil Griego, D-San Jose, said … “To do away with cockfighting is to do away with a major part of our culture, of our Hispanic heritage,” he said. … [mjh: supporters include Ed Lowry, Ray Westall, Wilford Brimley]
Mjh's blog — 2005 — February
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Some birds are smuggled into the U.S. for illegal cockfighting, while others supply specialty markets.
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I have moved five times in order to raise and fight my game cocks," a fourth generation cockfighter from Oklahoma recently wrote in an email.
On the Menu and on the Docket; Legislators Look at Fowl Foul Play
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Then staffordshire bull terriers, which, according to the voiceover, were 'bred for bloodsports such as bull-baiting and cockfighting'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like circuses, cockfighting, and greyhound racing, frog jumping promotes the message that animals exist purely to entertain us.
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But I hope they can see that it is an emotive topic, but one which is qualitatively different to cockfighting, bull-fighting or badger-baiting.
