Sentence examples for common killing from inspiring English sources

The men of Chowbent armed themselves and drove the Earl's men back to Lowton Common, killing some, wounding others and taking prisoner about 200 men: "... we are all upon our guard, and the Naylors of Chowbent, instead of making Nayles, have busied themselves making Bills and Battle Axes".

Professor Stephen Spiro, of the British Lung Foundation, said lung cancer remained the most common killing cancer in men and women and was related to smoking in 80% of cases.

The common killing mechanisms either inhibition of protein synthesis or inhibition of DNA synthesis along with other known or unknown mechanisms, such as the membrane-damaging ability of the peptide, make the combination of GM or TC or CF with α-MSH synergistic [ 68].

The approval is important because meningitis, while not very common, kills several hundred children each year and leaves others with brain damage and other neurological problems.

Within two years, the virus had mutated, enabling it to pass between soldiers as easily as the common cold, killing more than 40 million people.

Yet, with only a couple of exceptions, most writers on warfare have never dealt with war's most common act: killing.

Metastases are rarely encountered but because of difficulties in obtaining wide-margin resection of the primary tumour, local recurrences resulting in tissue destruction are common, eventually killing the patient.

THE Haitian government wants Michèle Montas to believe that common criminals killed her husband, Jean Dominique.

In the tropics, where it is common, hookworm kills 65,000 people a year and afflicts hundreds of thousands with anemia.

The season's best scene comes when Jessica, already scared and uncertain about what she and her mother have in common, accidentally kills an enemy during a fight.

But the most common ones kill off only about one fly in 20, leaving plenty of survivors to go on the rampage.