Sentence examples for contributed to killing from inspiring English sources

Ashe acknowledged that herbicides and the increased use of herbicide-tolerant crops have contributed to killing off the wild milkweed, noting that "highly efficient weed control" is a main reason for the decline.

The prevailing understanding has been that the HBV-specific CD8 T cells mainly contribute to killing virally infected hepatocytes [3].

Furthermore, WBCs have been shown to remain active in the blood bolus for several hours and thus could contribute to killing mechanisms that operate in the mosquito midgut [39], [54].

Few of the officers have proper training in crowd control a shortcoming that contributed to the killing five years ago.

The ascendancy of rock 'n' roll itself surely contributed to that, killing jazz singing as a saleable commodity just as Ms. Stallings was coming of age.

A 38-year-old former security guard in Edmonton, Alberta, said that being "involuntarily celibate" contributed to him killing a man while on the job.

Both isolates were also analysed in C. elegans (Fig.  6c) and mice (Fig.  6d) infection assays and we observed that the high biofilm B. pseudomallei strain UM5 contributed to higher killing kinetics in both animal models.

President Paul Kagame called a number of Rwandan laws "obsolete" and said they had contributed to the mass killing that swept the country in 1994 because they "favored impunity".

However, the addition of thermal energy not only contributed to the kill, but also increased the susceptibility of L. monocytogenes to PEF energy.

Gene knockout experiments are under way to identify whether these genes contribute to neutrophil killing.

These cells can also release serine proteases that contribute to hepatocyte killing (Ramaiah and Jaeschke 2007).