be sacrificed on the altar of something

Examples of sacrificing

sacrificing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This is an instance of sacrificing modeling power to ensure that the overall system is realized exactly.
Moreover, this high-cost sugar was only obtained by sacrificing a larger tonnage, with a lower unit cost, in the next harvest.
In the manufacturing domain, shop floor operators prefer to have a small amount of highly intuitive rules by sacrificing a small loss in predictive accuracy.
Occasional imprecise splicing can generate new proteins assembled from parts of old ones without sacrificing the original genes.
It has been shown that this can be done in a way that greatly improves the functional equivalence of the measure without sacrificing cross-time comparability.
In sacrificing marriages deemed undesirable and striving for economic independence, women frequently displayed a ' waywardness ' and boldness that signified their growing strength and resilience.
They required a solution to the problem of how to minimize the risks of overexposure to princely rule without sacrificing its benefits.
Or martyrs, sacrificing ourselves on the altar of a greater social good.
Such women should have refrained from extra-pair mating, sacrificing some genetic benefits they might otherwise have obtained.
In many cases believers are not sacrificing at all, but simply (and rationally) exchanging goods or labor for desired services.
An emphasis in section 3 is on how abstraction capabilities can be supported without sacrificing concreteness.
In this way, the past finds itself trapped within an insidious cultural exchange and sacrificing what integrity it ever had.
Thus, it may be concluded that the output subjects successfully learned the target form without sacrificing comprehension.
Productoriented architecture students consider that anything is worth sacrificing to achieve the object they want.
Some stories tell of people sacrificing their lives to save others; however, just as pertinent are those that highlight the importance of life over materialism.
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