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252 examples of Mortal in a sentence

In the late 1930s, when Jews in Germany and Austria were in mortal danger, few countries, including the wealthy United States, were prepared to take in more than a handful of refugees.
The goal is to establish the AfD as a new mass party, or Volkspartei, which could prove a mortal threat to what is left of the SPD, as well as to Germany’s wider political system.
And, finally, after a mortal blow had been dealt to whatever remains of the peace process, and cemeteries in Israel and in devastated Gaza are again filled with new casualties, Israel would want to withdraw, and negotiate yet another ceasefire with…the same Hamas.
Since the Wahhabis consider the Shi’a apostates, the challenge from the Shi’a – both within and without Saudi Arabia – represents a mortal threat.
And we are all mortal.”
The financial crisis poses a mortal danger to the country; but it also represents an opportunity for political change.
If anything, the way debt mutualization was snuck into the financing of Next Generation EU will probably turn out to have been a mortal blow to a proper fiscal union.
Almost one-third of the country is controlled by a Kurdish-led militia that Turkey regards as a mortal enemy.
It can produce instruments of social control that can help repressive regimes but pose a mortal danger for open societies.
A representative democracy can function properly only if political opponents don’t behave as though they were mortal enemies.
Many Germans, on the other hand, regard coronabonds as a mortal danger, because they would open the door to the dreaded Eurobonds – which would mean that German taxpayers become liable for Italian debt.
WASHINGTON, DC – The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a dangerous state of disequilibrium, in which the siren call of populist nationalism and the clear, compelling necessity of global cooperation and collective action are locked in (literally) mortal combat.
Good heavens! and to-day money is scarce, and we have to wait to catch up the interest of the expended millions; so there is a mortal congestion and a final stagnation of business."
She had spat out all her coarse words at them, and could find no vulgarity low enough, when suddenly, having nothing left but that mortal offence with which to bombard the faces of the troop, she exhibited her backside.
I felt a mortal chill freeze my dull, nearly paralyzed limbs.
In mortal terror at the apparition of Julien, Madame de Renal was soon a prey to the cruellest alarms.
Once rid of this fear, Julien fell into all the follies of love, into its mortal uncertainties.
His soul had almost quitted its mortal envelope, which was strolling at a slow pace along the north aisle committed to his charge.
This present, which classified Julien's family in the section of society that one must respect, dealt a mortal blow to jealousy.
But it was not without a mortal anguish that he deprived himself to some extent of her company.
'My eyes will be dull and will not betray me!'Gradually, the guests arrived in the drawing-room; the door never opened without plunging Julien in mortal dread.
But, to oblige Monsieur, I went to his house, and he told me everything ...''In short, the injury is not mortal,' said Julien, losing patience, 'you answer for that with your life?'
As the man's story began to convince Julien that Madame de Renal's injury was not mortal, he felt himself overcome by tears.
You would have resigned yourself to enjoying the happiness of the rest of the world: esteem, riches, high rank ...But, dear Mathilde, your coming to Besancon, if it is suspected, is going to be a mortal blow to M. de La Mole, and that is what I will never forgive myself.
He came one day to inform him that if he were not to fall into the mortal sin of suicide, he must take every possible step to obtain a reprieve.
These worthy members of the Congregation of Besancon make money out of everything; if you know how to set about it, they will sell you my mortal remains ...'Fouque was successful in this grim transaction.
Of course I had to turn every mortal thing out now, and, of course, I could not find it.
He thought he would light the fire when he got inside, and make himself some breakfast, just to pass away the time; but he did not seem able to handle anything from a scuttleful of coals to a teaspoon without dropping it or falling over it, and making such a noise that he was in mortal fear that it would wake Mrs. G. up, and that she would think it was burglars and open the window and call "Police!" and then these two detectives would rush in and handcuff him, and march him off to the police-court.
I beg leave to refer you to Dr. Archibald Sitgreaves, a gentleman of universal attainments and unbounded philanthropy; the very milk of human sympathies, and a mortal foe to all indiscriminate cutting."
The trooper had supplied the wants of nature to his perfect satisfaction; and, perhaps, with the exception of Washington and his immediate commander, there was no mortal whose displeasure he regarded a tittle.
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