Sentence examples for effect of killing from inspiring English sources

That has happened only three times over the last 40 years, state officials said; thus, the proposition could have the practical effect of killing the law.

This had the effect of killing it altogether, because Jacques Chirac felt he had to offer a referendum too, which he lost.

Their main weapon is the road block, which has the perverse effect of killing jobs that would alleviate the blockaders' poverty.

Sometimes the damage is collateral, a side effect of killing the people in proximity to the objects; most of the aerial bombing of the century just past falls into that category.

In many instances, this would have the effect of killing a time-sensitive scoop stone dead because it would usually be weeks before final orders would be made – another impediment to the already fraught endeavour of investigative journalism.

While a move by the F.T.C. to block a corporate merger often has the effect of killing the deal, executives at the two oil companies have asserted that they have a strong legal case and that they will not abandon the merger.

Careful investigation of the temporal effects of killing after TCR engagement may reveal differences between Fas and Bim effectiveness.

American helicopters buzzed up and down the valley spraying pink fungal gas over everything and everyone; it kills coca plants, but has the irritating side-effect of killing children as well.

During her pregnancy, doctors had found a tumour in her uterus and told her she would die if she did not have it removed – which would have had the side-effect of killing her unborn baby in the process.

On an intimate personal level, Mr Estleman movingly conveys the brutalising effects of killing for the law, even when you are terribly good at it.

But, judging by the number of drone operators who have been treated for alcoholism, depression, and other outcomes of post-traumatic stress, even this degree of remoteness can't insulate the perpetrator from the effects of killing.