1) Conservatives groused they were not ready commit political hara-kiri.

2) Defeated warriors (samurai) often resorted to hara-kiri.

3) Imagine several situation, when " Hara-Kiri" may be useful for you.

4) From the 17th to 19th centuries, hara-kiri was a form of death penalty, disguised as suicide, for accused individuals of Japan's warrior class.

5) The idea that imposing austerity is political hara-kiri is widely held.

6) HARA-KIRI is a uniquely Japanese form of suicide. Its corporate equivalent is karoshi,(http:///hara-kiri.html) "death by overwork".

7) From the 12th to 17th centuries, hara-kiri was a form of ritual suicide in Japan.

8) The Kamikazes used suicide air strikes because they followed ritual of altruistic suicide (Hara-kiri).

9) Its typical modus operandi is not to bid but threaten effectively to liquidate the trust, a vote of corporate hara-kiri.

10) For a while I was afraid she was going to commit hara-kiri by eating one of her own concoctions.

11) Thus, these leaders are befooling themselves and are committing hara-kiri because Delhi and Washington cannot rescue them.

12) Japanese soldier: Open one gun to wounded companion or killed the woman children of people on one's own side completely, tossed the rifle again next, look for a small knife hara-kiri.

13) Reflecting the extent of anger in Congress over AIG, the normally placid Republican senator Charles Grassley today refused to apologise for suggesting AIG executives commit hara-kiri.

14) All of this means that Japan is rushing toward a demographic hara-kiri.

15) But cutting out too much of the middle can start to look like corporate hara-kiri.