If Beckett fought the Nazis by lying in ditches, rifle at the ready, he also did so by countering their lethal certainties with a world in which everything is makeshift and provisional.
Sir Ian said this experiment was "uncontrollably dangerous" and went "too far". He said that in 1945, the scientists tested nerve gas on eight men without knowing what it was, and then in 1951, without knowing "with sufficient certainty" the lethal dose of the chemical weapon.
Parents' wishes must be respected, but counseling should explain the rationale behind no resuscitation or palliative treatment when there is sufficient certainty of a lethal outcome.
Whether inmates have actually felt pain or suffocation from lethal injection is not known with certainty.
Hogg danced down the left – his change of direction such a lethal weapon – and Tim Visser was a certainty to score, if he had caught the ball.
Two people, whose identities were withheld, were selected to administer individual injections, of which only one was lethal so that neither would know with certainty who executed the prisoner.
Four of the.30 calibre Winchester rifles were loaded with live bullets but a fifth carried a blank, so that none of the men would have known with certainty that he had shot a lethal round.
One of their.30-caliber Winchester rifles was selected at random and loaded with a non-lethal wax bullet so that they would not know with certainty who fired the fatal shots.
(A fifth "Lethal Weapon" sequel has been rumored, but, Mr. Black said, "with near-complete certainty, it's not happening").
The policies, among other things, establish the magnitude and nature of the threat that must exist as well as the level of certainty police officers must have in order to justify the use of lethal force.
