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deadly and earnest
Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome.
At the story's climax, a couple from one isolated outpost of humanity play a game against dwellers of another outpost ( who play the game with a doll similar to Perky Pat dubbed " Connie Companion ") in deadly earnest.
" Time Out called it a " soppy May-December romance masquerading as a deadly earnest issues movie ... Blow-dried, bleached blonde-on-bland entertainment.

deadly and away
Earthquakes that caused the greatest loss of life, while powerful, were deadly because of their proximity to either heavily populated areas or the ocean, where earthquakes often create tsunamis that can devastate communities thousands of kilometers away.
* 2012: Staff of The Tuscaloosa News, " For its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado, using social media as well as traditional reporting to provide real-time updates, help locate missing people and produce in-depth print accounts even after power disruption forced the paper to publish at another plant 50 miles away.
However, if one is " challenged " in a bar for a fight, accepting such challenge and using deadly force, instead of walking away, generally will not constitute a self-defense.
Wright became renowned for his deadly striking ability, as shown when he scored a hat-trick in just eighteen minutes in Palace's penultimate game of the 1990 – 91 season away to Wimbledon.
Military forces around the world set up field showers to enable the washing away of dangerous residue from modern weapons such as caustic chemicals, deadly biological agents, and radioactive materials, which can harm forces on both sides of a conflict.
The convoy moved on, setting up camp intermittently, but many in Japan were unnerved by the group, which evoked memories of Aum Shinrikyo, a terrorist doomsday cult which carried out the deadly Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and the convoy continued being turned away from village after village.
As Ed stumbled away from the scene, Masterson responded from across the street with deadly force, firing on both Wagner and Wagner's boss, Alf Walker.
Despite the intervention of Green Arrow, Roy cruelly butchers Buchinsky with his knives, then burns away his house and all his possessions, becoming a dark, broody vigilante enacting his brand of deadly justice on lowlifes and criminals.
The Hornsey Journal ( November 1935 ), claimed that ‘ the architect deserves thanks for boldly breaking away from the deadly classicism of the Victorian public building ’.
Some of the hazards the player faces in the cave include water, uneven terrain, steam vents, small ledges, chasms, deadly pits, and large rocks that must be blown away.
As everyone else ran away, Lord Siva, followed by Nandi, came forward to help as he was the only one who could counteract this deadly poison.
For instance James E. Gunn's 1955 novella " The Naked Sky ” ( retitled the " The Joy Ride ") starts on a partial terraformed Venus where the colonists live underground to get away from the still deadly atmosphere.
Arthur is called away to the harbour to treat cases of the deadly fever, and he leaves immediately after his wedding the next morning.
In the afternoon on 15 December 2004, for example, tourists visited the beach to see waves as large as 30 feet pound the shore ; officials warned visitors to stay away from the water, as the surf was very deadly.
Famously, for example, she sang a song " I've Got a Bit of a Blighty One ", about a soldier who was delighted to have been wounded because it allowed him to go back to England and get away from extremely deadly battlefields.
Nearly a year later the disposition of the body had yet to be decided and as a result his casket was swept away from its resting place by a storm surge generated from the deadly Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

deadly and portions
" The combination of multi-megaton explosives, radiation, and supernatural devastation serves to turn large portions of the United States into hellish wastelands filled with radiation and deadly supernatural monsters.

deadly and roof
Attempts to ride on the side or on the roof of subway trains are often deadly or extremely dangerous, because the clearance between train and tunnel is very small in many subways.
Rollover crashes are particularly deadly for the occupants of a vehicle when compared to frontal, side, or rear crashes, because in normal passenger vehicles, the roof is likely to collapse in towards the occupants and cause severe head injuries.
The other major reason is that most armoured vehicles have thinner armour on the roof of the turret and on the engine deck, so an anti-tank guided missile ( from an attack helicopter or ground-attack jet ) hitting them from the top can be deadly even if it has a small warhead.

deadly and inside
But, if the tumors are internal ( growing on the lungs and trachea and also inside the throat ) the turtle will not recover and will sooner or later die from the deadly disease.
After eliminating every member except for the Night Slasher, Cobretti and the leader ultimately engage in a deadly hand-to-hand duel inside the steel mill, ending with the Order's leader being impaled in the back by a large roaming hook and burned alive by Cobretti.
In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, the Tarantula Hawks have been mutated inside a research facility known as the Big MT into deadly new creatures called " Cazadores " which means " hunters " in Spanish.
On the occasion of World TB Day 2010, the International Committee of the Red Cross declared that attempts to stem the spread of tuberculosis across the globe are likely to fall well short of what is needed unless authorities in affected countries significantly increase their efforts to stop the deadly disease from breeding inside prisons.
* Shroud for a Nightingale: Dalgliesh becomes entangled in a deadly murder hunt inside a training home for nurses.
They conceive a way to approach the deadly station undetected, by use of a shuttle pod hidden inside a comet.
There is a 4-foot " warning fence " inside the perimeter of the exercise yard, that acts as a boundary inmates cannot cross without deadly force being used.
The Green Goose ( who Fred discovers is actually Triple X ) makes plans to launch his deadly inter-rokinental missile --- locking Fred and Barney inside until he overhears that Fred has an " expensive " necklace on him.
Rumors state about the various horrors inside the house, from poisonous / deadly animals, to deformed humans, to the supernatural.
He also murders Dai Thomas, agent of S. T. R. I. K. E .. Before David can finish his deadly vendetta, he is found to be inside the Ultimate version of Psylocke.
In the morning, his friends took him to the hospital, where the doctor told him he would have died if he had inhaled the deadly hot smoke inside of the bonfire.

deadly and only
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
He warns Macbeth that evil will offer men a small, hopeful truth only in order to catch them in a deadly trap.
Other examples include that hell will only be for the committers of the seven deadly sins ( Barnabas: 4-44 / 135 ), anyone who refuses to be circumcised will not enter paradise ( Barnabas 17 / 23 ), that God has a soul ( Barnabas 6 / 82 ), that there are 9 heavens ( Barnabas 3 / 105 ).
The bull recounts that the Fathers interpreted the angel's address to Mary, " highly favoured one " or " full of grace ", as indicating that " she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction "; and they " frequently compare her to Eve while yet a virgin, while yet innocence, while yet incorrupt, while not yet deceived by the deadly snares of the most treacherous serpent ".
Although there are only a small number of deadly species, several others can cause particularly severe and unpleasant symptoms.
" From her is the race of women and female kind ," Hesiod writes ; " of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.
The use of firearms or deadly force is typically a last resort only to be used when necessary to save human life, although some jurisdictions ( such as Brazil ) allow its use against fleeing felons and escaped convicts.
Of the 1000 + known species of scorpion, only 25 have venom that is deadly to humans ; most of those belong to the family Buthidae.
* Mary Beth " Tambi " Baker-A brutal enforcer who worked for Darcy Parker alongside her twin sister Sara Beth " Bambi ", Tambi is skilled in not only the deadly arts, but in business and strategy.
By 1995, Multiple Man had apparently died of the Legacy Virus, a deadly illness that attacked mutant genes, which was later revealed to have only killed one of his duplicates.
Additionally, the scientists in charge of the time travel mission have no interest in attempting to avert the release of the deadly virus which killed most of the human population, and are instead only trying to obtain a pure strain of the original virus, in hopes that it will help them to cure the disease in their own time.
:: Keen returns to Earth only to find the Vorticon mothership hovering above with its deadly X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons locked on to eight of Earth's greatest landmarks: Big Ben ( London ), the Sphinx ( Cairo ), the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney ), the Statue of Liberty ( New York ), the Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), the Colosseum ( Rome ), St Basil's Cathedral ( Moscow ), and the White House ( Washington D. C .).
The stormy relationship hit its nadir when she rejected Tracy to marry a charming wealthy ex-baseball player, only to find herself trapped in a deadly family intrigue that led to murder and the suicide of her husband that proved so traumatizing that she resumed her relationship with Tracy with a much more patient attitude toward his commitments.
However, Creasy has claimed: " The enduring importance of the battle of Tours in the eyes of the Moslems is attested not only by the expressions of ' the deadly battle ' and ' the disgraceful overthrow ' which their writers constantly employ when referring to it, but also by the fact that no more serious attempts at conquest beyond the Pyrenees were made by the Saracens.
A US Department of Defense interim rule ( effective 16 June 2006 ) revises DoD Instruction 3020. 41 to authorize contractors, other than private security contractors, to use deadly force against enemy armed forces only in self-defense.
He tells him his story, but when he asks for his help Urshanabi informs him that he has just destroyed the only creatures who can cross the Waters of Death, which are deadly to the touch.
Although some sources make it out to be simply a particularly deadly spear, others — notably the Book of Leinster — state that it could only be used under very specialized, ritual conditions:
Unlike convention weapons, the intense light, heat, and explosive force is not the only deadly component to a nuclear weapon.
He reached Rome on Palm Sunday ( March 30 ), only to find his patron ill of a deadly sickness, from which he died on Good Friday ( April 4 ).
( Texas law holds the defendant to a high burden of proof that the deadly force was the only means available to recover the property without a serious risk of death or serious injury ).
In most jurisdictions, the use of deadly force is justified only under conditions of extreme necessity as a last resort, when all lesser means have failed or cannot reasonably be employed.
In one case, the misfolded protein is not only deadly to the unfortunate individual in which it has appeared, but it can apparently be passed from one individual to another under special circumstances-producing infectious neurodegenerative diseases such as mad-cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease in humans.
Heidegger, in Strauss ' view, sanitized and politicized Nietzsche, whereas Nietzsche believed " our own principles, including the belief in progress, will become as relative as all earlier principles had shown themselves to be " and " the only way out seems to be ... that one voluntarily choose life-giving delusion instead of deadly truth, that one fabricate a myth ".
However, the attack becomes only a limited success for the UIR, since the virus is so deadly that it cannot spread effectively.

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