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self-killing
verb
Present participle of self-kill
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Given its size, the rate of self-killing at Foxconn is not necessarily far from China's relatively high average.
Some quibbled over how unusual the Foxconn deaths were, arguing that they were in line with China's high rate of self-killing.
He had in no way encouraged LaPorte's action, had never approved his self-killing, but he also refused to denounce it.
Situating cases of suicidal people, at least those of whom she managed to interview, within the larger context of Palestinian culture and society, Dabbagh's study leads us to conclude that poverty, social marginalisation and oppression could compel people to self-killing, but not self-sacrifice.
It can be simply defined as programmed "self-killing" [36].
In high-pressure formations with low rock strengths, it is more likely to occur self-killing through bridging mechanisms.
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This illustrates that suicide still carries a strongly negative subtext, and on the whole, we exhibit a greater willingness to categorize self-killings intended to avoid one's just deserts as suicides than self-killings intended to benefit others (Beauchamp & Childress 1983, 93 94).
In short, there do not appear to be any compelling examples of "noninstrumental" self-killings in which "the overriding intention is simply to end one's life and there is no further independent objective involved in the action" (O'Keefee 1981, 357).
Hybrid resistance and missing-self killing by natural killer cells may explain the rejection of cells in the 1-MHC-haplotype-matched recipient [36] [38].
This critical balance between these two cytokines was sufficient enough to induce Th1 response, as well as, the presence of small amount of IL-10 limits the self killing mechanism of Th1 cells and thereby prolonged its persistence.
Everything he did thereafter, from the first self-defensive killing to the coldblooded murders that followed, he did with his eyes open.
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