21.   At any rate, powerful monks in this largely Buddhist nation who frown on killing any living being may object to a crow slaughter.

22.   For followers of Jainism, faith demands a deeply spiritual deference to all living beings and a strict adherence to nonviolence.

23.   Technology in the broad sense of the word is one of the most fundamental characteristics which define man within the family of living beings.

24.   The Taliban had banned any depiction of living beings as un-Islamic.

25.   These are living beings.

26.   Animals are living beings -- they cannot speak, but they can cry, suffer and be happy.

27.   The ultra-extremist Taliban religious militia says that portrayal of images of living beings is an act of idol-worshipping contrary to Islamic Sharia law.