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The mixing of old superstitions with modern material desires has proved deadly for these women, as many brandings are now done to disinherit them from family property.

Not every problem can be addressed with the military, and ignoring development has proved deadly, said Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations.

"It's really hard with a small baby," she says stoically of a journey that has proved deadly for thousands over the past 20 years.

By 1993 the airlines must install cockpit devices that warn pilots of wind shear - a sudden shift in wind direction and speed that has proved deadly.

That has proved deadly this summer in crowded waters like those near Singapore and Tokyo, where another United States warship, the Fitzgerald, was struck by a cargo freighter under a waning crescent moon on June 17.

Incidences of sinkholes are increasing in the UK, while the issue has proved deadly in the US where, in 2013, the sleeping body of Florida resident Jeffrey Bush, 36, was swallowed up by a 20ft sinkhole which opened up within his bungalow.

This isn't the first time that a crucifix has proven deadly.

This week Detroit doctors reported an outbreak of seven cases of VRSA (Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a close cousin of MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an antibiotic-resistant infection that has proven deadly.

The damage has already been extensive, and the waters have proved deadly.

While criminal prosecutions have proved deadly for many American financial firms, the heavier sword hanging over Andersen's head is shareholder suits.

Two have proved deadly -- the one that killed Mr. Brookman, 53, on Feb. 1 and one on Jan . 26that struck just outside the town of Cordova on Prince William Sound, flattening several homes and warehouses and killing Martha Quales, 63.