No need to kill an entire city and all its people because we lacked the precision and reconnaissance to selectively disarm the enemy's military force.

Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.

I took the broken length of it around the tractor and I took one of the wrenches from the tool-kit and I struck its head, not looking at it, to kill it at last, for it could never live.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

There were three main kinds of harpoon that the Aleut ’ s used: a simple harpoon, with a head that kept its original position in the animal after striking, a compound ( toggle-head ) harpoon in which the head took a horizontal position in the animal after penetration, and the throwing-lance used to kill large animals.

Even so, its kill rate was only 13 % in combat in 1972, leading to a practice of ripple-firing all four at once in hopes of increasing kill probability.

It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.

In 2007, several groundbreaking storylines took place on Coronation Street, such as Tracy Barlow murdering Charlie Stubbs and claiming it was self-defence, as well as the show featuring its second two hander with Tracy Barlow confessing to her mother Deirdre Barlow she had planned to kill Charlie all along.

The brain therefore exists in neutral buoyancy, which allows the brain to maintain its density without being impaired by its own weight, which would cut off blood supply and kill neurons in the lower sections without CSF.

* 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: the Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah.

While neither alone harmed the mice, the combination was able to kill its host.

However, equally important is the cellular response, which can not only kill infected cells in its own right, but is also crucial in controlling the antibody response.

In U. S. military terminology destroying the vehicles is referred to as a catastrophic kill ( k-kill ) while only disabling its movement is referred to as a mobility kill ( m-kill ).

Before the poison could kill him, he was cured of the its effects by Fu Manchu's elixir vitae.

He was to kill the bull to show honor to Poseidon but decided to keep it instead because of its beauty.

Deteriorating weather conditions and weak, unacclimatised ponies affected the initial depot-laying journey, so that the expedition's main supply point, One Ton Depot, was laid north of its planned location at 80 ° S. Lawrence Oates, in charge of the ponies, advised Scott to kill ponies for food and advance the depot to 80 ° S, which Scott refused to do.

RPGs can also be used to achieve a mobility kill, because no matter how thick the tank's armor is, its tracks remain the weakest components.

Frazer ( 2006: p. 106 ) in The Golden Bough tells us that, “ In modern Greece, when the foundation of a new building is being laid, it is the custom to kill a cock, a ram, or a lamb, and to let its blood flow on the foundation-stone ”.

Battering rams and siege hooks could also be used to force through gates or walls, while catapults, ballistae, trebuchets, mangonels, and onagers could be used to launch projectiles in order to break down a city's fortifications and kill its defenders.

Unlike the sonic screwdriver, it is used as a weapon that can kill as well as artificially age its target, using technology developed by Lazarus Laboratories originally seen in " The Lazarus Experiment ".

It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long, stiffened tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill its prey.

Euchambersia a genus of Therocephalia ( animals close to the evolution of mammals ) is known to have had venom glands attached to its canine teeth, used to help subdue and kill its prey.

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

Both dogs and coyotes can kill and not consume the prey, either because they are inexperienced, due to injury or difficulty in killing the prey.

When attacking smaller prey, such as young lambs, the kill is made by biting the skull and spinal regions, causing massive tissue and bone damage.

Small or young prey may be completely carried off, leaving only blood as evidence of a kill.

Using a pouncing technique practiced from an early age, they are usually able to kill their prey quickly.

The knocks, clicks and resultant swishing were believed were the sounds of an animal echo-locating prey before moving in for the kill.

Siberian Tigers and brown bear are also known to prey on moose, although bears are more likely to take over a wolf kill or to take young moose than to hunt adult moose on their own.

This will kill or paralyze the prey so the scorpion can eat it.

All known scorpion species possess venom and use it primarily to kill or paralyze their prey so that it can be eaten ; in general, it is fast-acting, allowing for effective prey capture.

He at first plans to kill the judge, but when his prey escapes, he swears revenge on the whole world and begins to slash the throats of his customers.

Most species are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense.

Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by constriction.

Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain ; by inventing tools, they were able to accomplish tasks that human bodies could not, such as using a spear or bow and arrow to kill prey, since their teeth were not sharp enough to pierce many animals ' skins.

The wolverine has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times its size.

However, a few eagles may target prey considerably heavier than themselves, which are too heavy to fly with and thus it is eaten at the site they kill it or taken in pieces back to a perch or a nest.

Hunting may be used to kill animals which prey upon domestic animals, or to attempt to extirpate animals seen by humans as competition for resources such as water or forage.

Hunting dogs allow humans to pursue and kill prey that would otherwise be very difficult or dangerous to hunt.

In the open savanna of Tsavo National Park, they kill most of their prey while hunting between sunset and sunrise.

In some areas of Africa, troops of large baboon species ( potential leopard prey themselves ) will kill and sometimes eat leopard young if they discover them.

A folk etymology derives the word from the Greek πάν pan-(" all ") and thēr (" beast of prey ") because they can hunt and kill almost everything.

In normal usage, a poisonous organism is one that is harmful to consume, but a venomous organism uses poison ( venom ) to kill its prey or defend itself while still alive.