Sentence examples for equivalent to murder from inspiring English sources

For instance, you might decide that abortion is bad, but not exactly equivalent to murder.

This implies that terminating a fertilised embryo, however early in its developmental process, is equivalent to murder.

The notion of slaughtering a pig (in this case, Miss Piggy) is treated as if it were equivalent to murder.

The average Midsomer murder rate is 32 per million inhabitants, three times the rate of the actual area and equivalent to murder rates in Latvia and Chile.

In the past few years, when Supreme Court justices have drawn national attention outside the court, they have usually reinforced the impression of jurists as ideological warriors: there was Antonin Scalia, for example, jousting with a freshman at Princeton about whether sodomy is equivalent to murder.

Being angry at someone is spiritually equivalent to murder.

Considered equivalent to attempted murder, attempted suicide was punishable by hanging.

In Islam abortion of a viable foetus is considered a serious crime equivalent to that of murder [ 35].

In March, Pistorius's lawyers failed in their legal bid to reverse a supreme court of appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide – the equivalent of manslaughter – to murder.

Pistorius could face a minimum of 15 years in prison if a new panel of judges sees fit to change his conviction from the equivalent of manslaughter to murder.

This was the equivalent to one in 20 murder cases, a rise of 50% from 2010.