A wave of deaths would be a political, moral, and foreign-policy disaster, with the seriousness not necessarily in that order.
The result was a wave of "deaths, beatings, harassment and imprisonment of residents who have been forced from their homes across the country in both rural and urban areas", Amnesty said.
Federal health officials are trying to shift supplies of the seasonal flu vaccine away from chain pharmacies and supermarkets to nursing homes, hoping to counter a shortage that threatens to cause a wave of deaths this winter among the nation's most vulnerable population.
Officers suspect it could be the source of drug batches behind a wave of deaths in the north of England over the last three months.
A wave of deaths felled the next generation of Morris men--the most traumatic being that of the gentlemanly Stan Kamen, the company's top movie agent, who died, as discretely as he had lived, of AIDS.
Among Fz3 −/− LMCL neurons, a wave of cell death begins at E11.5, well before LMCL axons have reached their final muscle targets, and 2 days before the normal wave of motor neuron cell death (Kablar and Rudnicki, 1999; Oppenheim et al., 2000).
Robin Williams's suicide in 2014 inspired a wave of copycat deaths, according to a new study by Columbia epidemiology PhD candidate David Fink.
The 6-to-3 decision was a dramatic turnaround for a court that capitulated 13 years ago to a wave of pro-death-penalty sentiment and found no reason to bar the execution of the mentally retarded.
DAKAR, Senegal — A toxic chemical mixed into a teething medicine for babies has killed at least 84 children in Nigeria, health officials there said Friday, more than tripling the toll in a wave of infant deaths that began in late November.
