Sentence examples for as fatal as from inspiring English sources

Its loss can prove just as fatal as insolvency.

He added: "It is not as fatal as Ebola but it is pretty awful.

On all counts, the best epitaph for her may be that uttered by a Marguerite Duras character, closely modeled on Sonia: "Literature can be as fatal as anything else; you can't get over it".

Here, also, the century met the monarchy in a collision that may in time prove as fatal as the desperate event in Paris a collision between the light and the magic that royalists had long warned against but in the end proved powerless to prevent, and even helped to fix.

Very few soldiers or officers calculated their own odds as fatal; as Siegfried Sassoon documents beautifully in his great memoir, "Memories of an Infantry Officer," the rotation between the trenches and the rear, the dugout and Paris, created a kind of dream space, a disorienting succession of fear and reassurance.

One blackly daffy subplot involves "dieball," a game that's not quite as fatal as its name suggests — it's a kind of cross between football, curling, Dungeons & Dragons (the ball is a gigantic 10-sided die) and glue-huffing (players cover themselves with addictive, brain-damaging "Diegunk").

For the second (name) column, this is not fatal, as long as there is an empty column.

Continued significant aspiration can lead to bronchospasm, hypotension, hypoxia, and hypercarbia as well as fatal airway obstruction and pneumonia.

Mr. Roddenberry also worried about the risks ahead: "This slavery of white women to black beasts will bring this nation to a conflict as fatal and as bloody as ever reddened the soil of Virginia".

But, he added, "It won't be fatal as long as the demand for ethanol and gasoline remains strong".

(The remote control is as fatal to the weeknight athlete as Kryptonite is to Superman).