Sentence examples for swift killing from inspiring English sources

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Hamlet sees examples on all sides of those whose forthright actions lead to fatal mistakes or absurd ironies (Laertes, Fortinbras), and indeed his own swift killing of the man he assumes to be Claudius hidden in his mother's chambers turns out to be a mistake for which he realizes heaven will hold him accountable.

But some people, such as Peter Thiel, a big early investor in Facebook and LinkedIn, have accused the banks involved in the LinkedIn transaction of drastically underpricing the shares.Bankers have sometimes been accused of underpricing deals so that their investment clients can make a swift killing on a firm's shares.

Beyond the numbers, it is the banality of injustice, the now predictable playing out of 21st Century convention – the swift killing, the shaming of the victim rather than inquiry into the shooter, the kitchen-table protest signs, twitter handles and spontaneous symbols of grievance, whether hoodies or Skittles or hands in the air, the spectacle of death by skin color.

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Tracking is an ancient art, if not a very happy one; the conscientious hunter prides himself on his ability to make a clean and swift kill.

Aside from the usual shadowing of targets from rooftops followed by swift kills using a hidden blade, players will use Connor to liberate small towns, marshal squads of musket bearers, conduct cannon volleys and even take part in naval battles with enemy warships.

Within two hours of Hurricane Serena blowing out over Melbourne the defending men's champion, Novak Djokovic, restored order with a swift kill against his good friend Fabio Fognini to set up a rematch of his 2013 rivalries against Stanislas Wawrinka.

Murray saved five set points in 15 tortuous minutes of high-grade exchanges that left everyone breathless – followed by a swift and killing denouement by Federer to go two sets up.

AMPs are also widely regarded as a potential source of future antibiotics owing to a remarkable set of advantageous properties ranging from molecular simplicity to low-resistance swift-kill of a broad range of microbial cells.

US President Barack Obama, the Prime Minister David Cameron and a number of other world leaders called for a swift investigation into the killing.

At night, my neighbor Teodora and I patrolled the gardens and the coconut grove with our lanterns, killing the swift columns of cutter ants, pouring kerosene into the nests of the ants who ate our tomatoes and green beans, lettuce and squash.

The idea of reconciliation is particularly powerful in Rwanda, where everybody is working to rebuild after the brutal and swift genocide that killed nearly a million people in a hundred days.

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