Sentence examples for challenges death from inspiring English sources
A medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Ingmar Bergmans iconic work of cinematic philosophy rendered in chiaroscuro.
In 2015, the New Orleans City Council voted to take down the four statues around the city — a move that triggered a heated, prolonged debate that involved legal challenges, death threats, violent protests and the national spotlight.
Mr. Wilson's article about the Columbia Law School study that concluded that inept lawyering and legal errors occur in a significant number of death penalty cases seems to treat legal error as if it were inconsequential and at the same time challenges death penalty opponents to prove that truly innocent people have been executed.
But the elements could also serve as challenges: Death Valley air so hot it was like facing a firing squad of 10,000 hair dryers, rain near Mono Lake so chilling that side-of-the-road jumping jacks were all we could do for warmth.
"I don't challenge death," he wrote, "I simply kick it in the head, because I have no fear of it.
When Denzel Washington talks about challenging death to a wrestling match, you suddenly sense that everything's going to be all right.
Indeed, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote, Mr. Holland had had a better understanding of the complicated time limits for challenging death sentences in federal court than his lawyer had.
For an hour or so Frankenweenie is a really funny and unsettling meditation on the intense nature of childhood friendship – so intense that a boy will challenge death itself to be reunited with his pal.
Awaiting approval is Proposition 66, which intends to speed up executions by designating trial courts to hear petitions challenging death row convictions, limiting successive petitions and expanding the pool of lawyers who could take on death penalty appeals.
Awaiting approval is Proposition 66, which intends to speed up executions by designating trial courts to hear petitions challenging death row convictions, limiting successive petitions and expanding the pool of lawyers who could take on death penalty appeals.
None of them directly challenges the death penalty either; they all address trial procedures in reaching a death verdict.
