Sentence examples for a lethal death from inspiring English sources

The Organic Consumers Association reports that food- irradiation facilities are "poorly guarded", but Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission contends that "an individual physically handling an unshielded single-source rod would receive a lethal (death within weeks) dose in about a minute".

"An individual physically handling an unshielded single source rod would receive a lethal (death within weeks) dose in about a minute, and an incapacitating dose (immediately deadly) in about 20 minutes," said an e-mail statement from Neil A. Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which licenses businesses using the materials.

With the latter undergoing an expensive retrofit to try to banish the lethal "death ray", will it be safe to walk along Eastcheap this summer?

I heard audible gasps from the be-sequined crowd followed by lethal death stares from the father and bride, but couldn't quite gather my wits to handle the debacle.

The reason why we use embryonic cells as a model system is because it seems that a genetic deletion of docking proteins results in a lethal phenotype causing death shortly after birth in all nulls studied so far (de Wit et al. 2009; Verhage and Sørensen 2008).

No other governor in America's recent history except his successor, Rick Perry, has overseen so many executions.Related items Capital punishment: A mixed pictureApr 30th 2007 Capital punishment: Here is thy stingApr 27th 2007 The death penalty: A lethal habitMar 2nd 2007Elsewhere, the death penalty is increasingly controversial.

It is not an auspicious start to peace but a lethal war causing 120,000 deaths in two years, according to some estimates is at a turning-point.

Correction: A previous version of this story referred ambiguously to "non-lethal death sentences".

42 patients died by the end of the study; 18 received a prescription for a lethal drug under the Death with Dignity Act, and nine died by lethal ingestion.

This perceived societal benefit was highly valued, particularly in the case of a lethal outbreak involving numerous deaths, and particularly if respondents believed that the procedure could prevent future deaths in their community.

Years later, I had to sign the order setting a time for this man's death—"by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until such convict is dead"—and I remember staring at the paper, feeling strange and unnerved.