Sentence examples for standard mode of execution from inspiring English sources

Hanging became the standard mode of execution throughout the British Empire and wherever else the Anglo-American common law was adopted.

Making rash promises became his standard mode of operation; yet he also began to make good on such promises.

"Not the environmental definition but the other one nature as one's standard mode of existing.

WhatsApp and Facebook have become standard modes of communication.

The modes of causable and not causable do not correspond to the standard modes of necessary, possible, impossible, and contingent.

The proposed mode of execution varies, but politicians never stop pronouncing death sentences on quangos.

The unusual mode of execution was, apparently, decreed by Henry, after some thought.

In the United States and elsewhere, hanging was also usually the mode of execution used in lynchings.

The question of whether doctors should participate in executions is more difficult now that lethal injections are the dominant mode of execution in the United States.

But in France the more gruesome forms of capital punishment were being phased out, and the country soon instituted a single, putatively egalitarian mode of execution: the guillotine.

During the Mughal era, "it was a common mode of execution in those days to have the offender trampled underfoot by an elephant".