Sentence examples for quietly to kill from inspiring English sources

Similar anti-immigrant laws are often introduced but rarely enacted, as corporate interests work quietly to kill or defang them.

At this point, what no one but Schumer (and perhaps AIPAC) seems to know is whether he wants to do all he can, albeit quietly, to kill the deal.

Her 1975 structuralist masterpiece, "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles," tells the story of a fastidious middle-class widow who supports herself by discreetly taking lovers, a situation that eventually drives her — toward the end of the film's 3 hours 18 minutes — quietly to kill one.

For instance, he added an opening pre-title scene to create the first of several McGuffins, as Hitchcock called red herrings, in which the kids are filmed solemnly and quietly agreeing to kill Jane's father.

George Osborne quietly moved to kill off Britain's renewable revolution in Wednesday's budget as he stealthily enacted David Cameron's rumoured call to his cabinet to kill off the "green crap".

Lobbyists, however, will try to get them to quietly push Trump to kill tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Without making an issue of it, she quietly received several shots to kill the pain.

* The lyrical, quietly moving music of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), now hailed as a landmark in movie scoring.

You play as an assassin either sneaking around to kill targets quietly, or bursting into massive shootouts in a meticulously-designed rendition of a futuristic version of Tokyo in both single and multiplayer modes.

For one thing, it would have been a simple enough matter for him, as the party's vice president, to kill the ordinance quietly at an earlier stage.

"We had hoped to kill this bill quietly as has been done in the past.