Sentence examples for tendency to kill from inspiring English sources

(This tendency to kill challenging stories was to cost one editor – my father, Tom Hopkinson – his job when, in 1950, he refused to pull a feature on the Korean war by the photographer Bert Hardy and the writer James Cameron).

Roisin Campbell-Palmer, conservation projects manager at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which has funded and helped run the Knapdale project, said there was a depressing tendency to kill beavers in the area.

While murder did decrease in late-nineteenth-century America, Roth credits the taming effect of working in factories and even speculates that police may themselves have contributed to homicide rates, thanks to their unfortunate tendency to kill suspects in the course of their law-enforcement duties.

Thus in theory, throughout history, sport has proved a creative alternative to our recurring tendency to kill each other.

Unlike zinc oxide, silver has the inherent tendency to kill the bacteria without interacting deep into the cell wall of the microorganism.

A brief survey of some of the traits that are likely biological adaptations in a number of species such as a tendency to kill 'step-children' or to philander ought to convince us that even if similar tendencies are likewise adaptations in human beings, present in us for similar evolutionary reasons, this would be no argument at all that we ought to engage in such behaviors.

Studies from Wake Forest University on the masked boobies illuminate curious tendencies to kill siblings.

Large driftnets are banned in many areas and on the high seas because of their tendency to indiscriminately kill marine creatures, including turtles and marine mammals.

Accompanying the photoshoot of him and the rest of the cast was the tongue-in-cheek observation that "despite his fastidious attention to detail, unarguable hygiene, and superior style knowledge, there is obviously a downside to Mr Bateman: his tendency to viciously kill people, his unabashed misogyny, and his unerring devotion to the entire Whitney Houston oeuvre".

Our data obtained from 63 women show that the majority of sera from healthy volunteers can efficiently induce apoptosis in Jurkat cells; however, cervical cancer patients' sera induce only a low percentage of apoptosis; in women with CIN 1 lesions, we observed a 50% tendency to efficiently kill Jurkat cells (Fig. 1).

Mrs. Yates had been described over and over during the trial as mentally ill, suffering from hallucinations, postpartum psychoses and suicidal tendencies (she had tried to kill herself twice).