Sentence examples for towards dead from inspiring English sources

It has to be said that those of a squeamish disposition would be best to give this book a miss as it is teeming with such dark details. 'A corpse makes a good lunch,' writes McDermid, before going on to examine the catalogue of creatures that are drawn towards dead human flesh - maggots, cheese flies, flesh flies, coffin flies, blow flies, beetles, moth larvae and mites.

If we allow that intergenerational relations are not exclusively governed by duties with correlative rights, the notion that we can stand under surviving duties towards dead people who cannot be bearers of rights vis-à-vis present people (Sections 5.3 4) is compatible with the forward-looking understanding of the significance of historical injustice.

The red disc was shifted towards dead center, but the overall size of the disc stayed the same.

In sum, however, it cannot be cleared whether there is an artificial shifting towards "dead" values as long as no concomitant comparison with appropriate conventional parameters is made.

Trophozoites can damage host cells through direct contact or close proximity, as well as through phagocytic activity towards dead and dying host cells in a receptor-mediated fashion [ 14].

Codes for aggression scoring methods are as follows: a = aggression index, b = presence of aggression, c = percentage rejected by guards, d = percentage rejected, e = aggression towards dead workers, f = % aggression in 1 to 1 assays, g = # attacks per trial, h = time based aggression scale, I = aggressive vs. non aggressive interactions, m = number of aggressive ants.

'I feel a responsibility towards the dead.

Dust in sunlight and memory in corners Wait for the wind that chills towards the dead land.

His programmes take hikers deep into the Judean desert, towards the Dead Sea and along ancient shepherding routes among crumbling dry stone walls and terraced olive groves.

This word, with its specific connotations of duty towards the dead, is fatuous when applied to any historical event from 200 years ago.

One senses his preference for the moodiness of Sinatra alone, shot from behind and dressed – as if by Raymond Chandler – in a hat and long mackintosh, pacing down a bleakly dirty corridor towards a dead end.