The phrase "amounts of killing" is not correct and sounds awkward in written English.
It is typically used when discussing the quantity or extent of killing in a specific context, but it would be better to use a more precise term.
Example: "The report detailed the amounts of killing that occurred during the conflict, highlighting the tragic loss of life."
Alternatives: "instances of killing" or "levels of killing".
The main character has a mission, one that involves a certain amount of killing, and that's that.
Given the amount of killing and displacement and suffering that has gone on, it's difficult to call the international effort a great success.
Brushing off concern from human rights groups about the rising scale of the massacres in Mayan villages, Mr. Abrams declared that "the amount of killing of innocent civilians is being reduced step by step".
The goal the United States hopes to reach in Iraq -- a successful counterinsurgency that does not drag on for years and does not involve a large amount of killing -- has never been achieved by any army.
At the start of 2006, General Chiarelli took command of the Army's day-to-day operations in Iraq, and he was certain that no amount of killing or capturing could exhaust the ranks of unemployed and angry Iraqis willing to join the insurgency.
The reason is that it is not the doctor who kills the five, and the doctor's duty seems to be to reduce the amount of killing that she herself does.
"We recognize that risk but believe that the amount of killing that's going on, the fact it's been going on for a year now, there's too many weapons there," an unnamed senior diplomat told the outlet.
Real psychological and spiritual understanding comes when we accept the nature of the world and our lives, not every outward tragedy can be prevented, death cannot be held at bay forever, "bad" things can and will happen and no amount of killing, torture, or surrendering our freedoms can stop it.
Didn't they know that the creator of Islam maintained that "killing a man amounts to killing all of humanity"?
Salk had discovered that injecting a small amount of killed virus prompts the body to produce protective antibodies without triggering polio, a disease that has caused permanent paralysis, particularly in children, since the days of ancient Egypt.
