Sentence examples for could be mortal from inspiring English sources
The trip and the screenings helped Bolognesi to write the screenplay as he "learned that the slightest loss of attention could be mortal and irreversible".
The decision could be a mortal blow for the domestically engineered reactors, whose unique design allows them to be refueled without going off-line.
Although, according to Zhukov, Stalin did believe that the Germans were able to carry out operations simultaneously along two strategic axes, Stalin was sure that the opening of spring offensives along the entire front would destabilize the German Army before it had a chance to effectively initiate what could be a mortal offensive blow on Moscow.
"I do think it could be a potentially mortal blow to the newspaper industry that's already wounded," he said.
According to ancient tradition, thunderbolts—"bullets of Pērkons," found buried in the ground as flint or bronze celts—or any object or person struck by lightning could be used by mortals as protection against devils or as cures for toothache, fever, and fright.
What could be done about this mortal hatred?
The Murjiʾah took the opposite stand, asserting that no one who once professed Islam could be declared kāfir (infidel), mortal sins notwithstanding.
"He seemed to them to be as close as any mortal could be to Christ on earth, and they did not even think of him as a sexual being, much less as gay," Mr. Daly writes.
FEW mortals could be expected to resist the Cheesecake Factory's central theme: deliriously rich desserts.
"We are dressed about as badly as mortals could be," he wrote of one youthful adventure: "unshaven faces, dirty gray shirts, still dirtier yellow trowsers".
