Sentence examples for lethal death from inspiring English sources

With the latter undergoing an expensive retrofit to try to banish the lethal "death ray", will it be safe to walk along Eastcheap this summer?

The Organic Consumers Association reports that food- irradiation facilities are "poorly guarded", but Neil Sheehan of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission contends that "an individual physically handling an unshielded single-source rod would receive a lethal (death within weeks) dose in about a minute".

"An individual physically handling an unshielded single source rod would receive a lethal (death within weeks) dose in about a minute, and an incapacitating dose (immediately deadly) in about 20 minutes," said an e-mail statement from Neil A. Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which licenses businesses using the materials.

I heard audible gasps from the be-sequined crowd followed by lethal death stares from the father and bride, but couldn't quite gather my wits to handle the debacle.

Correction: A previous version of this story referred ambiguously to "non-lethal death sentences".

Typically, lethal injection deaths last for under 10 minutes.

Scientists have come up with names for genes in fruit flies, for example, that may be mystifying ("faint sausage," "fear of intimacy"), cute ("tribbles," "groucho" and "smurf"), or macabre ("sex lethal" and "death executioner Bcl-2").

As endpoints, we used survival ("indolent" = over 10 years survival after diagnosis and "lethal" = death within 10 years after diagnosis) for GSE16560 and distant metastasis for GSE21034 since the latter contained only few disease-specific deaths.

In many humans, the duplications are lethal, with death ensuing within the first decade.

Targeted deletion of Ogt in the developing oocyte was also lethal with death occurring at the early postimplantation stage (around day 5 postfertilization) (O'Donnell et al. 2004).

The homozygous Gnas knockout was shown to be embryonically lethal, with death before embryonic day 10.5, which would be expected for a ubiquitously expressed gene whose product is critical for many signaling pathways.