Sentence examples for would otherwise kill from inspiring English sources

This nips in the bud the "big new tax" argument that would otherwise kill any carbon price plan in the US as it so nearly has even here.

Ruptures can also follow fetal surgery, which has become increasingly common to repair certain defects that would otherwise kill the fetus or cause severe disability.

They enabled some strains to grow on sugars they couldn't normally metabolize, while making others insensitive to certain antibiotics that would otherwise kill them.

So, for example, two people might disagree about whether they ought to push a large man onto the rail tracks to derail a trolley that would otherwise kill five people, but this is quite consistent with them agreeing that the fact that this act would save five people counts in favour of pushing the man off the bridge, and that the fact that he would die if this were done counts against doing it.

Moving may help the pupa, for example, escape the sun, which would otherwise kill it.

The test saves lives by enabling doctors to destroy or shrink tumors that would otherwise kill.

By arming the microbes that dwell inside a plant with the ability to break down toluene, scientists have shown that the microbes and plants can thrive in soil so polluted it would otherwise quickly kill off plants.

"We are killing with drones what we would otherwise be killing with fighter planes.

California was among the first states to adopt laws requiring shelters to turn over animals that would otherwise be killed to nonprofit rescue groups, prohibiting the immediate killing of those given up by their owners, and require that if animals are killed, it be done by lethal injection rather than gas chambers.

I will never know with certainty if that bomb would otherwise have killed me.

"Cruelty-free" eggs come from hens that are considered too old for commercial laying and would otherwise be killed at around 72 weeks old.