Jammeh's direct death threat issued to human rights workers is not something that can be ignored.
Stiles's was the first direct death among high school players this year, compared with a typical total of about three.
She and other local leaders began to suffer direct death threats, but she refused to be intimidated and continued her work with the farmers.
She had no intention of getting involved in direct death penalty ministry, but learned about a man imprisoned in Allenwood, Pa., who was scheduled to die in less than two months.
During the conflict in Darfur, for example, activists for intervention exaggerated the death toll by tenfold claiming that 400,000 innocent men and women have been killed, although the direct death toll was closer to 35,000, with perhaps a similar number of indirect deaths (PDF).
During the decade-long open-door policy (1979 89), theatre contacts with the West were tentatively resumed after 40 years abeyance: Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman in 1983, and the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Company toured in Europe with its opera version of Macbeth in 1987.
