Sentence examples for death was less from inspiring English sources

The IPCC report into Askew's death was less condemnatory, noting that local police worked "diligently" to assist the family, including when off duty.

But because so little was known about the patients' histories and how they lived, Dr. Rabin added, the link between their religious behavior and the increased risk of death was less certain.

In the 20th century, which included two world wars and the mass killers Stalin and Hitler, the likelihood of a European or American dying a violent death was less than 1%.

"It is entirely possible that Champion's tragic death was less about any ritualistic hazing and more tantamount to a hateful and fully conscious attempt to batter a young man because of his sexual orientation," said Dr. White's lawyer, Chuck Hobbs.

In the case of Kim, however, the response to news of his death was less than respectful -- after all, to most of the world Kim Jong Il is as abstract and removed from reality as they come.

For Hart, the uncanny series of events roughly 12 years after Kennedy's death was less of a coincidence than an indication that people -- including Giancana -- knew more than they were letting on.

For Athill, the most frightening aspect of death is less Hamlet's undiscovered country than the physical act of dying.

After so much taunting, his death is less an assassination than, as Camus put it, "a superior suicide".

In Oregon and Switzerland, studies have shown that people who request death are less motivated by physical pain than by the desire to remain autonomous.

The death is less a Hollywood drama than it is a slow-moving descent into despair, after Swartz is caught and charged, as Cory Doctorow puts it in the film, for "taking too many books out of the library".

For her family and friends, the precise moment of Karen Grimm's death is less important than the fact that she is gone and they wish it weren't so.