Hare coursing is the last legal spectatorbloodsport—rather than a spectator sport—in this country.
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Baiting is abloodsportused for entertainment and gambling.
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Blood sports continued to be seen as a matter of individual conscience, to be pursued through private members bills.
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It is said that politics is something of abloodsport.
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They have elevated local government to abloodsport.
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He referred to the debate as abloodsport.
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I think it was reluctant to do so because it was timorous of involving itself in a debate on abloodsport.
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The loss of that particularbloodsportwill be welcomed by the overwhelming majority of people.
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There is no doubt that thebloodsportindustries of this country provide a massive tourist import.
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I would want to witness such abloodsport.
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It is not abloodsportbut ineffective.
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Does it come within the definition of abloodsport?
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It will, in other words, be politicalbloodsport.
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Bloodsport includes coursing, combat sports such as cockfighting and dog fighting, or other activities of human-animalbloodsport.
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He noticed people playing the game intensely and thought of treating the gameplay like somebloodsport.
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