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Lethal in sentence

318 examples of Lethal in a sentence

So they're trained that, as soon as things go bad, their first response is lethal force.
So their attitudes to the use of lethal force are very different, and I think it's fairly obvious that their attitude to the use of nonlethal weapons would also be very different from what it is with the police.
So this nonlethal weapon was being used in this case as a lethal force multiplier, to make killing more effective in this particular situation.
Since the 1950s, Australia has been introducing lethal diseases into the wild rabbit population to control growth.
These rabbits were bred at a government facility, Biosecurity Queensland, where they bred three bloodlines of rabbits and have infected them with a lethal disease and are monitoring their progress to see if it will effectively kill them.
After a lethal 1995 heat wave turned refrigerator trucks from the popular Taste of Chicago festival into makeshift morgues, Chicago became a recognized leader, tamping down on the urban heat island impact through opening cooling centers, outreach to vulnerable neighborhoods, planting trees, creating cool white or vegetated green roofs.
AIDS, he heard, was lethal, and treatment was not offered.
He said, "There is no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down's syndrome child away, whether it is 'put away' in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible, lethal sense.
I'm talking about fully autonomous robotic weapons that make lethal decisions about human beings all on their own.
There's actually a technical term for this: lethal autonomy.
Now, in both cases, there's still a human in the loop to make that lethal firing decision, but it's not a technological requirement.
And it's that choice that I want to focus on, because as we migrate lethal decision-making from humans to software, we risk not only taking the humanity out of war, but also changing our social landscape entirely, far from the battlefield.
Anonymous lethal weapons could make lethal action an easy choice for all sorts of competing interests.
Now in November 2012 the U.S. Department of Defense issued a directive requiring a human being be present in all lethal decisions.
One is that we should avoid an arms race and lethal autonomous weapons.
And in the same spirit, most AI researchers want to stigmatize and ban lethal autonomous weapons.
It moves through the plant so that a crop pest, a leaf-eating insect, would take a bite of the plant and get a lethal dose and die.
When Iran and Israel's security imperatives dictated collaboration, they did so in spite of lethal ideological opposition to each other.
It was lethal to human rights and particularly to women's rights.
My vivacious sister, who gets more exercise than I do, and who, like perhaps many people in this room, increasingly talks about a lethal illness in the past tense.
The alternative is a world in which even a blade of grass is a potentially lethal weapon.
I want to talk to you about four megarisks that I think will define fragility in our time, and if we can get to grips with these, I think we can do something with that lethal violence problem.
If I have one single message for you, it's this: There is nothing inevitable about lethal violence, and we can make our cities safer.
On July 20, 2011, right after a sobbing Raisuddin testified in defense of Stroman's life, Stroman was killed by lethal injection by the state he so loved.
Bacteria compete against each other for resources, for food, by manufacturing lethal compounds that they direct against each other.
It should be dark, lethal and lifeless.
So bigotry isn't just immoral, it can even be lethal.
Using the tools of synthetic biology, we can harness Deinococcus radiodurans' ability to thrive under otherwise very lethal doses of radiation.
However, although it's very, very sad this news, it's also thanks to their personal stories that we have raised awareness of how lethal this disease can be.
This lethal weapon has been used by over 20 states during armed conflicts in over 35 countries, such as Ukraine, Iraq and Sudan.
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