To make up the margin, sealers further accelerated the pace of the killing -- until there was nothing left to kill.
He had told a pupil of his plan and winked as he left to kill her.
"There's not much left to kill that won't affect the military's safety or success".
Several scenes are indelible: the slaves' forced march across the Argentine pampas and over the icy Andes; a mad scramble to slaughter seals by the thousands in the South Pacific, until none were left to kill.
Were Mr Qaddafi left to kill, unchallenged, the international community's word would be exposed as hollow, his regime might return to exporting terrorism and waves of refugees, and hopes for the Arab spring risk being dashed.
When a Sunni enclave is eliminated and the death toll in that district falls because there's nobody left to kill, that counts as progress by the Pentagon's metric.
Having starred in the latest Ukip TV ad, he was outed for dismissing Ed Miliband as "a Pole", asserting that Enoch Powell was right, Islam was Satanic and that Africans should be left to "kill themselves".
These days, whatever security can be found in the city is owed in part to the relentless segregation that took place during the civil war; as Matthew Sherman, a former civilian adviser to the U.S. Army, told me, "There was no one left to kill".
General Lansana Conté, the dictator who ruled Guinea before Alpha Condé became President, was famously corrupt: he referred to his ministers, not without affection, as "thieves," and once remarked, "If we had to shoot every Guinean who had stolen from Guinea there would be no one left to kill".
After all that, you might think there was nothing left to kill.
