In many societies an uninitiated person who glimpsed the sacred objects would be executed, but it is likely that the offended spirits were considered the killers, not the men who acted for them and performed the execution.
"I made it psychologically, and I made it physically," Mr. Patz said last week of his change of heart about Etan's fate and his need to pursue the man he considers the killer.
However, MySpace has managed to maintain more than six million visitors in each of the last six months – which Facebook will have to match if it is to be considered the true MySpace killer.
The first game of the Halo franchise, it was released on November 15 , 2001 as an exclusive launch title for the Xbox gaming system, and is considered the platform's "killer app".
The games in the series have been praised as being among the best first-person shooters on a video game console, and are considered the Xbox's "killer app".
For users, video and TV streaming is often considered as the killer application.
Heart disease is considered the nation's leading killer, and doctors may list it by default without evaluating other possibilities.
The White House and Senate Democrats considered the amendment a treaty killer because any change to the text would require the United States and Russia to go back to the negotiating table.
Ever since the launch of Google+, Hangouts has been considered the social network's "killer feature," but it remains to be seen how Gmail users will react to seeing even more Google+ features in their email client.
He considered the command's operators expert killers — "the best spear fishermen in the world".
To illustrate the point that killers rarely considered the consequences of their actions, a prosecutor in Des Moines, John Sarcone, described the case of four people who murdered two elderly women.
