Sentence examples for opposed to kill from inspiring English sources

American officers say they are particularly eager to capture, as opposed to kill, militant leaders, who they say can offer intelligence to guide future operations.

Its supporters include Sister Helen Prejean, the inspiration for "Dead Man Walking," who wrote, "I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born".

They were not opposed to killing thousands of people who challenged their point of view.

However, many others, both in Australia and elsewhere, are vehemently opposed to killing kangaroos for any reason.

"There is a very different notion when you're thinking about killing an individual, as opposed to killing a soldier in the line of fire".

I eat chicken all the time, so I am not morally opposed to killing a chicken, but I couldn't kill my own pet, so I took her back to the vet.

Gerald Levin, who says that he is "constitutionally opposed to killing animals," remembers how, on a visit to one of Turner's properties, he learned that Fonda had shot a deer and loaded it into a pickup truck.

But county officials in favor of creating public hunting opportunities have to contend with doubts about public safety and complaints from residents and animal rights activists opposed to killing deer.

Opening in the bilious light of the late 1970s we learned more about the Network, the global black ops organisation whose plan to tackle world overpopulation – as opposed to killing people one by one – involved engineering a virus that could "switch off" human reproduction in all but those best genetically equipped to carry us into the future.

It is important to note that, unlike deontological pacifism, consequentialist pacifism is not opposed to killing per se.

"We are morally opposed to killing fetuses because of our religion, therefore our tax dollars should not go to pay for it" is the way this argument runs.