Sentence examples for virtually certain death from inspiring English sources

In general, people do not "volunteer" even for ordinary tests, let alone a test for a disease that carries with it an enormous social stigma and a virtually certain death sentence.

This form of TB, which has also been identified in Iran and Italy and is likely present elsewhere, is virtually untreatable with existing drugs, leading to almost certain death.

It is also the least dangerous form of plague, accounting today for virtually no deaths and in the past killing only half of its victims (at a time when contracting the other forms of plague brought almost certain death).

Last month the home secretary, Alan Johnson, wrote a letter ordering McKinnon's removal to the US on charges of breaching US military and Nasa computers, despite claims by his lawyers that extradition would make the 43-year-old's death "virtually certain".

If a patient is afflicted with a medical condition which is virtually certain to lead to death in a relatively short period of time despite all the doctor could conceivably do, what should the doctor say and do?

"Untimely death is virtually certain," he says.

After about 10 minutes, she said, death is virtually certain.

In reality, many in the accounting business believe, the death penalty seems virtually certain.

His lawyers seemed to regard the case as a clear loser at trial and, given the impulsive nature of the crime, virtually certain to result in a sentence other than death.

1961 Eichmann Found Guilty It seemed virtually certain tonight that Adolf Eichmann will be sentenced to death on Thursday or Friday.

If Zayn had been the chief operating officer for al-Qaida, it is virtually certain that he would be facing charges and the death penalty.