Sentence examples for certain of death from inspiring English sources

Still, the effect can be oddly liberating: When the dumpling starts to dry out on the floor, certain of death, he is resigned but free of responsibility.

Those plain, unarousing words, spoken by a man ordinary in looks but remarkable in perception and courage, are a turning point in "United 93," Paul Greengrass's stunning account of how a group of airline passengers, almost certain of death, decided on the morning of September 11th to fight back against hijackers on a suicide mission.

But high unemployment is not a certain kiss of death.

"The Murder of Emmett Till" and "A Certain Kind of Death" were the documentary jury's choices for special jury prizes.

In July, the United Nations declared that parts of southern Somalia had met the technical criteria of famine as defined by certain thresholds of death and malnutrition rates.

But just about the only areas where that drought has spelled famine, as defined by certain thresholds of death and malnutrition rates, are Shabab-controlled areas.

There are also specialized courts that handle cases involving children, certain circumstances of death, drugs, family violence, and indigenous offenders who plead guilty to a crime.

According to Rousseau's own account, Thérèse bore him five children, all of whom were deposited at the foundling hospital shortly after birth, an almost certain sentence of death in eighteenth-century France.

One way to assess the contribution of a set of inputs to remaining life expectancy at age 60 (LE 60) and variability of age at death (VAD) is by eliminating certain causes of death from the data (see [17, 16], but also [21], and [22]).

The truth was if she put her hand in, she would fall in completely and she realized that it would be a certain kind of death.

But the fact of the matter is that dying nobly was well regarded in ancient culture and Christians were perfectly in keeping with the rest of society valorizing certain kinds of death.