Death
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6363 examples of Death in a sentence
The British Foreign Office’s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China’s extensive use of the
death
penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech – including the Internet – and religion.
Last year, following the
death
of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who ruled for a decade, his half-brother, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, ascended to the throne.
Moreover, not only was Zhen Xiaouyu executed, but Cao Wenzhuang, who was in charge of drug registration at the SFDA, was sentenced to
death
for accepting roughly $300,000 in bribes from drug manufacturers.
In that opera, a prostitute named Su San, after being sentenced to death, pleads for mercy to unconcerned passersby as she is marched down the main roads of Hongdong County in shackles.
He was beaten to
death
while in custody.
I know I’m going to die, but my
death
will get the attention of those officials.”
Coming from Stalin’s lips, the phrase, backed by the full and fearsome force of the Soviet state’s internal security apparatus, was a
death
sentence for millions.
Economic considerations thus cannot help but play an important role in life or
death
medical decisions, though welfare state doctors are loathe to admit it.
On the other hand, underutilization of life-extending techniques creates a moral crisis because ill patients are being prematurely terminated by doctors who have too much power over life and
death
decisions.
Having practiced long-term detentions without charge, trial, or access to family or counsel; having sexually humiliated and tortured prisoners, some of them to death; and having failed to hold accountable any of the high-level officials responsible for the policies that led to those crimes, the US is now seen as a hypocrite when it calls on other governments not to engage in such abuses.
In the nineteenth century, as many as one in 100 pregnancies in Europe ended with the
death
of the mother.
Though the maternal
death
rate has declined globally by nearly half since 1990, an estimated 830 women still die from pregnancy-related causes every day.
The device was of potentially great benefit to babies born in families with a history of sudden infant
death.
Primo Levi, the Italian chemist who escaped
death
in the Nazi camps to become a writer, wrote movingly about his life as a chemist and about “the strong and bitter flavor of our trade, which is nothing more than one special case, a more bold version, of the trade of life.”
I listened to a Sunni engineer whose association with an American construction company makes him a target for extremists, and to a translator of the Christian Mandaean minority who narrowly escaped
death
when the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was bombed in August 2003.
Despite the recent
death
of Zarqawi in Iraq, the situation there, and in Afghanistan, does not justify the continued Bush administration’s optimism.
The success of the world’s development goals hinges on our ability to reach the poorest and most marginalized populations, who continue to bear the brunt of
death
and disability worldwide.
A great nostalgia for the old order took hold of the body politic, and after Edward’s death, his sister, Mary I, set about reversing the process.
After Mary’s death, Elizabeth I would eventually institute a compromise.
Trump has been true to America’s all-too-frequent willingness to place lucrative military contracts ahead of human rights, saying that he would be “very upset and angry” if Saudi Arabia were found to be responsible for Khashoggi ’s death, while ruling out a halt to big military contracts.
Gold mining in particular was almost a
death
sentence: workers seldom survived more than three years before succumbing to mercury poisoning or accidents.
If the alternative to slavery is starvation or death, people may well choose slavery.
Dengue fever is a leading cause of illness and
death
in the tropics and subtropics, with as many as 100 million people infected each year.
Hostile reactions from his colleagues convinced Freud to suppress the paper, which was published only after his
death
fifty years later.
In Defense of Non-VisionariesOXFORD – Many of the recent tributes for Margaret Thatcher following her
death
celebrated her as a “transformational” leader who brought about great changes.
Up to 200,000 political prisoners are kept as slaves in brutal labor camps, where they are lucky if they are not tortured to
death.
Tabloid IndiaNEW DELHI – When the Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor drowned last month, at age 54, in a bathtub in a Dubai hotel, coverage of her tragic
death
once again showcased all that is wrong with Indian media.
Yet Sridevi’s
death
became the subject of ghoulish stories, particularly on television, about what might have happened behind the closed door of her bathroom, with one TV anchor even attempting to enact a bathtub drowning.
I have experienced the limitations of India’s media firsthand, having been treated to repeated doses of speculation, gossip, accusation, and worse over the course of the last four years, following the tragic
death
of my wife.
Instead of showing the restraint and caution one might expect from a responsible press covering matters of life and death, the media flung around baseless accusations of murder and suicide with abandon.
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