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But uncertainty and inaction over Haiyan’s potential impact resulted in a
death
toll of nearly 6,000.
Nine people are killed in interpersonal violence for every battlefield
death
in a civil war, and one child is killed for every two combatants who die.
On his 57th birthday, he wore yellow instead of red, and substituted “Socialist homeland or death” with “We will live and we will win.”
After the
death
of her brother, Kim Jong-il, last year, Kim Kyong-hui was often seen accompanying her nephew on his inspection tours around the country.
Second, we should consider how much
death
and suffering would be avoided by letting such a ruler and his henchmen go free.
But condemning thousands to
death
in order to be able to punish him is intolerable as well.
At the very least, scarcity need not be a question of life and
death.
Of course, highbrows everywhere object to this “McDonaldization” of life, arguing that commercial sameness is the
death
of culture and individuality.
The Chinese authorities refused Liu’s request, made just weeks before his death, to seek treatment abroad for his aggressive cancer, and his wife remains under house arrest.
In the United Kingdom, air pollution kills some 29,000 people a year, putting it second only to smoking as a cause of premature
death.
The
death
of Slobodan Milosevic has just been followed by Montenegro’s referendum on independence.
Do international tribunals of the sort Milosevic faced before his
death
promote or postpone serious self-reflection and reconciliation in damaged societies?
Although some of those convicted of endangering state security are charged with violent crimes--for example, two Tibetans were recent sentenced to
death
for "inciting separatism" and setting off bombs--the great majority involve non-violent speech and association.
While Poles are justifiably offended by use of terms like “Polish
death
camps” – they were German-run camps, located on occupied Polish territory, and should be remembered as such – the law amounts to a dangerous attempt to use history as a political tool.
Only 26 years later did a French president, Jacques Chirac, officially acknowledge the role French collaborators played in the deportation of 90,000 Jews to Nazi
death
camps.
I had been scared to
death
for the entire 20-minute meeting, but I walked out a little taller for having realized that he valued my job.
In other words, we must acknowledge that two Islams are locked in a fight to the death, and that because the battlefield is the planet and the war threatens values that the West embraces, the fight is not solely the Muslims’ affair.
At the same time, Bhutto always remembers that her father’s attempts to play politics with the army eventually led to his
death
at the generals’ hands.
Here’s one fact to consider: the entire
death
toll from the Southeast Asian tsunami is matched each month by the number of worldwide casualties of HIV/AIDS.
Dictators who order their own people shot will cling to power tightly; they know that being overthrown means either
death
or permanent exile (in Maduro’s case, in Cuba or Russia).
The nineteenth-century Prussian military officer and theorist Carl von Clausewitz spoke presciently about the age of total war that would arrive less than a century after his
death.
In India, the
death
toll could reach two million a year.
While this disagreement was playing out, so was the Muslim conquest of Persia, which began just a year after the prophet’s
death
in 632.
Today, TB is among the world’s leading causes of death, killing approximately 1.6 million people in 2017, which was only slightly fewer than the year before.
The goal should be to ensure that medicines are accessible and affordable for anyone who needs them; this includes high-risk populations such as health-care workers, as well as people living with HIV/AIDS, for whom TB is a leading cause of
death.
The longer we wait to increase R&D funding and strengthen collaboration on treatment, the higher TB’s
death
toll will climb.
For example, one of the studies that we reviewed found that no standard therapy in the initial or secondary phase of treatment was associated with an unsuccessful outcome or
death.
Whether Socrates’ humility was sincere or a secret joke at the expense of the powers that be (before said powers put him to
death
after tiring of his irreverence), the point is that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of how little we really know.
Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and
death.
In the decade since, the distribution of opioid drugs has expanded substantially, driving a rapid increase in addiction and
death
rates.
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