Hence it may still be possible to avoid killing of gross animals, but it is impossible to avoid killing of subtle microorganisms in air and water, plant life and various types of insects that may be crushed by walking.
But that could make it difficult to avoid killing at least some noncombatants.
I wanted to avoid killing animals just because I wanted – rather than needed – to eat them.
Sidantha, a good Buddhist, slows and weaves to avoid killing them.
"But the most important thing for them is to avoid killing civilians".
If you want to avoid killing anything, you will pay a good-karma premium, but you can still succeed.
Girouard ordered his men to approach the house, but this time to shoot over it, to avoid killing noncombatants.
Mr Mihnenko says that in order to avoid killing civilians, government forces will rely more on special forces.
The first of the five basic precepts of Buddhist ethics is to avoid killing or harming any living thing.
Israeli officials say they select such targets to avoid killing civilians and to deliver a message to the Palestinian Authority.
During the attack in Bamako, some 80 hostages were reportedly freed after correctly reciting Koranic verses, a method typically used by al-Qaeda to avoid killing Muslims.
