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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His deterioration through Alzheimer's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom .
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Intensely painted scenes depict the gruesome martyrdom of countless saints.
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Its boasts about fanatical recruits lining up for paradise through the martyrdom of suicide-bombing may be bluster.
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Near the end of his life, Young, fearing martyrdom , started going out in public only with armed escort.
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Other forms of holiness - that of the virgin and the ascetic - were assimilated to martyrdom .
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They believe in martyrdom , and forbid members to have one-to-one meetings with their lawyers in jail.