Sentence examples for invite death from inspiring English sources

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Performed in white makeup, Butoh expresses states of transition — taut hands revolving and thrusting, and a sudden crumpling torso appear to invite death and then to repel it.

What was real, apparently, was the desire of these young men to fight against Israel and for a Palestinian state, and to invite death in the process.

Some Kurds even seem to invite death in war, which their American advisers say makes them formidable in battle — though likely to take considerable casualties.

"But... when you start doing it seven storeys up or lying across a railway line or in a range of other places that invite death or serious injury, that's what we have a concern about.

CONSIDER how the average adventure sport gets started: one person does something that seems to invite death -- or at least mangling injury -- like jumping off a bridge while attached to a rubber band or rolling down a hill in a giant hamster ball.

She was not only a virtuoso but a Soviet society girl in the 1930s, and a regular at Stalin's New Year parties in the Kremlin; she went not because she liked him but because to refuse would be to invite death.

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An anti-comedian not only allows death onstage; he invites death up.

By Joyce Horner The New Yorker, April 18 , 1953P. 107 Our ancestors invited Death View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By Andy Borowitz By Atul Gawande.

"Chaos on the 'Mountain That Invites Death' " (front page, Aug. 6) was good reporting, and the writers were wise to avoid analysis.

In a message sent back to friends, three South Koreans from the Flying Jump K2 Expedition expressed their awe about "the mountain of the mountains" and "the mountain that invites death".

Liaqat Baloch, the secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's most organized Islamic political party, condemned the ruling, saying in a statement that "Salman Taseer had himself invited death by issuing blasphemous statements and the accused Mumtaz Qadri did not deserve death".

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