Sentence examples for may kill hundreds from inspiring English sources

It may kill hundreds more people, possibly thousands.

Every American nuclear commander makes a pact with the devil by agreeing to obey orders to fire weapons that may kill millions of people in retaliation for a nuclear attack upon the United States or our allies.

17 that sources tell me may have killed hundreds of technicians at Al Hillah, south of Baghdad.

— Alabama beachgoers may have killed hundreds of protected birds: A bird biologist on Alabama's Dauphin Island found that beachgoers used 26 eggs from the nests of a bird called the least tern, which is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, to decorate a sand sculpture.

This is perverse because it makes a norm designed to protect "populations" applicable to some tragedies affecting one or a few individuals (outrages against prisoners of war, for example, are covered war crimes) but inapplicable to destructive actions that may kill or impoverish millions of people.

Slate's Eric Holthaus cites US geological survey predictions that the quake may have killed thousands.

The 19-day suspension of aid that came to an end yesterday may have killed thousands already.

If North Korea does not correct its course, "the regime will face a second 'Arduous March,'" Mr. Ha said, referring to a famine in the 1990s that may have killed millions of North Koreans.

Mr. Zadran repeated denials by the Taliban that their forces may have killed thousands of Hazara last month in the Mazar-i-Sharif area, where several thousand Taliban troops were slain last year and buried in wells and mass graves.

Rescuers are still in the early stages of reaching remote areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, which officials say may have killed thousands of people as it lashed the island chain with winds of more than 200 mph and widespread flooding.

Tribal warfare may kill far fewer than 21st-century mechanised versions, but there is still a constant fear of raids and revenge killings.