However, apoptosis does not represent the sole killing mechanism by which cancers are eradicated, and other modes of cell death, that is necrosis, autophagy, and mitotic catastrophe, are some forms of cell death that cannot be easily classified at present, and have to be considered also (Debatin and Krammer, 2004; Fulda and Debatin, 2006).
Built as a temporary camp for the sole purpose of killing Jews, Sobibor had only one stone building: the gas chamber, supplied with carbon monoxide from captured Soviet tanks.
Saddam Hussein will have no deterrence to using his biological and chemical weapons if Iraq is invaded with the sole objective of killing him.
Police say Hulett went to the diner Tuesday night for the "sole purpose" of killing Lionel S. Hernandez, 47, a cook, whom Hulett said had "crossed the line".
And again, the sense is not of an army, but of an astounding gathering of particular people and their talents, arrayed in a field for the sole purpose of killing one another.
So far, all signs are that it was just a guy just one more American killer who got his hands on some collection of weapons designed for the sole purpose of killing people, and who then killed people.
After the decision on Tuesday, the board wrote to Mr. Chapman, 55, that it remained concerned about "the disregard you displayed for the norms of our society and the sanctity of human life when, after careful planning, you traveled to New York for the sole purpose of killing John Lennon".
Training manuals distributed to police departments around the United States and, increasingly, the rest of the world now recommend that one or more initial teams of four officers each go into a live shooting in diamond formation with the sole objective of killing or disarming the attackers.
The choice is his under Ohio law, but his spirited protest to die by electrocution, the first in 38 years, has galvanized a movement among capital punishment advocates to repeal that choice in the Ohio General Assembly and leave lethal injection as the state's sole means of killing capital criminals.
Numerous vectors have been engineered for the sole purpose of killing cancer cells, and some have successfully suppressed malignant tumours.
Poachers, it has been reported, poured cyanide into the drinking and salting wells frequented by some of Zimbabwe's 80,000 elephants with the sole aim of killing them and removing their ivory tusks for sale to buyers in Asia.
