A lethal battle on the disputed border is routinely described as a skirmish.
What the Pakistanis can offer is their influence over the Taliban network of Jalaluddin and Siraj Haqqani, whose forces American commanders say are the most lethal battling American and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.
In this vicious psychological cat-and-mouse game, Kristin Scott Thomas plays the chief executive of the Parisian branch of a multinational corporation who does lethal battle with her protégée (Ludivine Sagnier).
The duel itself remains a shockingly brutal episode at the very origin of the United States, pitting Burr, a sitting vice president, against Hamilton in a lethal battle stemming from gossip, mutual acrimony and profoundly different visions of government.
Trainers can send out any of their Pokémon to wage non-lethal battles against other Pokémon; if the opposing Pokémon is wild, the Trainer can capture that Pokémon with a Poké Ball, increasing his or her collection of creatures.
And lethal gun battles often break out between forces loyal to the president, and defectors who have joined the opposition.
Skepta v Rosie and Jim? Lethal Bizzle battling Bodger and Badger?
The lines she speaks before visiting Claudio to prepare him for death, "had he twenty heads to tender downe/ On twenty bloodie blockes, hee'ld yeeld them up," are at once obscurely funny, pathetic and menacing - a reversion into some lethal sibling battle in some well-bred Tudor schoolroom.
Complicating matters, executions have been stopped for the last 10 years by legal battles over lethal drug protocols.
