The deadliness, sophistication, and ambition of the attacks belied their inevitably negligible upshot.
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"The 'hardness and deadliness' of Keanu has come with age," Thomas told me.
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To the contrary, the deadliness of the home has very little malice in it.
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Given the deadliness of Ebola, Zika, and H1N1, this is not a hypothetical threat we face.
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Normally viruses decline in their deadliness over time because they need living hosts to keep spreading.
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This is pure absurdity, and the atrocity it leads to is a code of public deadliness.
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The street down which the car drove was otherwise empty, the United States Army having previously informed the citizens of Tal Afar to evacuate their city or find themselves caught between military-strength deadliness and the people toward whom that deadliness was meant to be applied.
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Still, in recent years, Americans have watched as the frequency and deadliness of mass shootings continues to mount.
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Check out the info below to see just how hurricanes compare to one another in deadliness and costliness.
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The speed and deadliness of the pandemic humbled doctors then much as the coronavirus pandemic is doing now.
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At the same time, inequality itself may be acting as a multiplier on the coronavirus's spread and deadliness.
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The militant group has recently increased the frequency and deadliness of attacks with three at the end of January.
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This was what made him brilliant, in a way, alongside his incredible agility and deceptive deadliness in the ring.
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When H1N1 was first recognized in 2009 and spread around the world, there were major concerns about its deadliness.
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As for the question of deadliness, we don't yet know how lethal this disease is or how easily it spreads.
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Funny, except for the very real deadliness of that choice and the extremely unstable state of mind she's clearly in.
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But pot doesn't appear to pose a high risk, if any, of deadliness (outside of car crashes and other accidental deaths).
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Because many cases are mild and some are asymptomatic, it's difficult to track its deadliness and the extent of its spread.
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During these early stages of the outbreak investigation, it is difficult to estimate the lethality, or deadliness, of this new virus.
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That "public deadliness" of daring to hold people accountable for their actions, it seems, has now led to Keillor's own firing.
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But studies have repeatedly identified a correlation between the growing deadliness of mass shootings and the increasing availability of AR-style weapons.
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This is all just days after Trump and other officials were on the record downplaying the deadliness and reach of COVID-19.
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Killings by the police have soared in recent years, as a force long known for its deadliness has managed to outdo itself.
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"Too many in the industry have been harmed due to lax STD testing and continued disregard of the deadliness of HIV," Jameson said.
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A series of disturbing satellite images has also shown the deadliness of the virus — workers have been digging mass burial pits for weeks.
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If someone impulsively determines to commit violence, the relative deadliness of their weapon of convenience matters—to the outcome and to the legal response.
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From within its capacious disc-shaped magazine came the gentle hum of a propulsive wheel revolving at many, many RPM that belied its deadliness.
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Eric Feferberg/AFP via Getty Images Eric Feferberg/AFP via Getty Images When it comes to deadliness, no single substance comes close to tobacco.
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Today, breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women, beat out only by lung cancer in its deadliness and overall prevalence.
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But it is wishful thinking to believe that a signed petition blocking these programs will somehow limit the likelihood or deadliness of tomorrow's wars.
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Besides, at this point, drug dealers have to be aware of the deadliness of fentanyl — given that it's been all over the news for years.
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US President Donald Trump initially brushed off coronavirus fears as alarmist and erroneously conflated the deadliness of the flu with that of the new virus.
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With U.S. military recruitment rates relatively stagnant, Mattis established a Close Combat Lethality Task Force to squeeze every ounce of deadliness out of American warfighters.
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But there's reason to think the scale of overall deadliness in the chart at the top of this article wouldn't change much with additional data.
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According to the FDA, kratom should be banned for its opioid-like qualities, its potential deadliness, and its link to 23 salmonella poisonings across the country.
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But whereas the incidence of and mortality from some cancers is on the decline, the frequency and deadliness of terrorism seems to be on the increase.
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And it's that fear of cancer's potential deadliness that overwhelmingly preoccupies all the breast cancer patients I've heard from since I received my diagnosis in mid-September.
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The deadliness of the harder drugs, like crack and cocaine, is severely limited in part because very few people use such substances, especially in the long term.
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There are no shortage of major problems facing the world, but pandemics, with their unique combination of speed and deadliness, deserve far more attention than they're currently getting.
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The creature's latent deadliness, which was already perceptible in the painting, turns into a sort of applied lethality that it acts out through dynamic motion in the film.
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The earthquake that struck Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 225 people, owes its deadliness to its origin in the center of the country rather than its overall power.
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" The 86-year-old congressman said that the deadliness of the virus was "blown out of proportion," claiming "it's not nearly as deadly as the other viruses we have.
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But this much more, a striker of such deadliness — and here is that comparison again — scoring at the sort of rate many had assumed was exclusively for Messi and Ronaldo?
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Similarly, other research has suggested that while an assault weapons ban may have some impact on the deadliness of mass shootings, it would have little to no impact in other areas.
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His saga imagines rabbits with politics, a religion and a language, but its story is about a band of survivors encountering hostile rivals, bloodthirsty predators and the casual deadliness of humans.
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Malaria has many strains, of varying deadliness, but survival rates are lowest for people encountering new varieties to which they have not been "seasoned"—to which they have gained no immunity.
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But deadliness is still a powerful measure — and it suggests that the public and policymakers shouldn't assume that a substance is more dangerous to society as a whole just because it's illegal.
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While the metrics of public health might put the flu alongside or even ahead of the new coronavirus for sheer deadliness, she said, the mind has its own ways of measuring danger.
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Meanwhile, some crazy weapons defy definition as "deadly," not simply because the deadliness is in question, but because it's almost impossible to imagine anyone but a cartoon character using one in an assault.
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In recent years, there have been noticeable upticks in far-right violence, even if its frequency and deadliness have often been overshadowed by the more high-profile attacks claimed by the Islamic State.
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Grace, a long-range sniper, is a blend of deadliness and discretion, while Nick, a pilot, can rain down destruction with bombs from his biplane, in a decidedly open assault on your mutual enemies.
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In the meantime, we have disease modelers that can give us a provisional portrait of Covid-19's deadliness, accounting for things like the delay in the reporting of deaths and potential uncounted cases.
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The law also focused too much on features that didn't affect a weapon's deadliness like barrel shrouds and pistol grips; generally, efforts to ban "assault weapons" are complicated by the vagueness of that term.
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Fear from infectious diseases can be quantified by the deadliness of the pathogen, the severity of the symptoms, how much is known about it, how it's transmitted, and whether treatment or preventive measures are available.
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That is because nearly 19 years of war in Afghanistan, led by the United States, is not just still raging but has now reached levels of intensity and deadliness never seen before in the country.
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According to the report, factors that increase the deadliness of an attack include planning attacks to exploit specific vulnerabilities in targets, including focusing on soft targets and planning attacks when areas are the most crowded.
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They also planted a small cage of wild (collected from the homes earlier) and lab roaches in the homes right near where the bombs would go off, using them as a measure of the treatment's deadliness.
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There's a surreal, theatrical aspect to the photographs that belies the deadliness of the weaponry and the scale of gun violence in the US, where nearly 40,000 people died by gun in 2017—two-thirds by suicide.
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The spider, meanwhile, can have connotations of maternity, as in Louise Bourgeois's "Maman" sculpture or a Navajo woven blanket, but the US Army's 7th Division also used a spidery black widow shape as a symbol of deadliness.
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In a report published in The Lancet, a group of researchers evaluated the harms of drug use in the UK, considering factors like deadliness, chance of developing dependence, behavioral changes such as increased risk of violence, and losses in economic productivity.
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The administration has come under fire for shifting statements about when and where coronavirus test kits will be available, while Trump himself has been reprimanded for garbled or hyperbolic answers about the disease's deadliness and the potential of a quick vaccine.
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As of February 21.6, the WHO also reported lots of regional disparities in the disease's deadliness even within China: 3.8 percent on average but 5.8 percent in Wuhan, Hubei province (where the virus first emerged), and 0.7 percent in other areas in China.
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According to the unclassified report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis, recent extremist efforts to promote lone-wolf attacks employing tactics like stabbings and vehicle ramming still aren't as effective -- measured by deadliness -- as more sophisticated attacks.
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Black Jam, a Dublin event run by Fried Plantains Collective in September, which Miano helped organize, celebrated the "roots of Africa" in all "its punk, funk and grunge deadliness"—an inclusive space for all, "whether you're brown, white, punk, or into trap".
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Next, in order of deadliness, are chronic lower respiratory diseases such as emphysema, accidents such as car accidents and drug overdoses, stroke, Alzheimer's, diabetes, the flu and pneumonia, kidney disease, suicide, septicemia, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, hypertension, Parkinson's and lung diseases caused by external agents.
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The research suggests such a ban would not have a significant impact on overall gun violence, because most US gun violence is carried out with handguns, but experts say that such a ban may reduce the overall deadliness of mass shootings, like the one in Sandy Hook.
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As the moments passed after news of the Florida shooting broke, members of both parties joined Trump in offering their thoughts again to victims of gun violence, and some Democrats renewed their calls for legislation they claim might affect the frequency and deadliness of the incidents.
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Modern assault weapons are as deadly as the machine guns used by Al Capone in the 1920s and '30s and should similarly be banned -- as should all weapons and high-capacity magazines that exceed a given threshold of deadliness because they allow for rapid fire of large numbers of particularly damaging bullets.
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"If we imagine for a minute that Russia has given up this role (of arms seller), we well understand that this place will not stay vacant," Medvedev told the weekly "Vesti on Saturday" programme on Russian state TV. "They will buy weapons in other countries, and the degree of their deadliness won't change in any way," he said.
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The death rate analysis figures into a wider debate about war, genocide, and the deadliness of the modern era, Stone said, that pits scholars such as Harvard's Steven Pinker, who see violence as declining worldwide, against those such as Aaron Clauset of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who see peace as far more fragile and war as more deadly now.
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However, at the end of the day, all of these systems are designed to increase the deadliness of combat forces in some capacity, whether it's surveillance info that could then be used in targeting or hauling equipment for soldiers—the motivating factor behind Google employees' widespread protests against the company's secretive Project Maven drone imaging program last year, which it eventually withdrew from.
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At the same time, the newly discovered strain is very much like the version of Y. pestis we're already familiar with, containing the genes responsible for the deadliness of the modern pneumonic plague, for example (the plague manifests in two different forms, bubonic and pneumonic, the former being an infection of the lymphatic system and the latter being an infection of the respiratory system).
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Johnston was renowned for the power and deadliness of his forehand drive, which he hit shoulder-high with a Western grip, and which was considered the best forehand of his time. After his tennis career, Johnston was active in the brokerage industry. He died of tuberculosis on May 1, 1946 at the age of 51.
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Their name reputedly comes from the fact that their calls make a distinctive "chick-a-dee-dee-dee", though their normal call is actually fee-bee, and the famous chick-a-dee-dee-dee is an alarm call. The number of "dees" depends on the predator."Chirpy chickadees signal deadliness of predators". New Scientist.
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Horses have become a valuable asset throughout military history. Effectively trained war horses became formidable enough to match the deadliness of their riders. In addition to physicality, they had considerable psychological impact on soldiers by boosting morale and courage, or instilling fear in the enemy. The impact of horses boosted the efficiency of militaries and their strategies.
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The rules in Grosstaktik govern weapon fire and melee. The results of weapon fire are decided by casting a six-sided die and adding modifiers to account for factors such as distance. The types of weapon fire, in increasing order of deadliness, are carbines, solid shot batteries, muskets, rifles, and grape shot batteries. When enemy troops encounter each other, they cannot fire and must engage in melee.
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To create the game, Barclay consulted her colleagues to rank the thirty volcanoes for their explosiveness and deadliness. Barclay used the funds raised from Volcano Top Trumps to fund annual competitions to help people affected by volcanoes. They helped children in Ecuador make a book about volcano legends, the sales of which raised more money for the local community. She has created websites to communicate the relationship between hazards and landscape.
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Her first solo album, Rolling, was issued in 2002 on her own label, Squiggly, followed by Bimbling in 2004. Tilston's next album, Ropeswing (2005), featured an expanded group of backing musicians named The Woods and was available as a free download. It contains her two most politically explicit songs, "Artificial", which speaks of the deadliness of office life, and "Corporations", which is a critique of corporate rule and the corporate- education complex.
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One by One (reissued in edited form as The Quick and the Dead in 1978) is a documentary about the deadliness of Grand Prix racing, including footage of fatal racing accidents. It is narrated by Stacy Keach. The film was reissued as The Quick and the Dead in 1978 including the death of Tom Pryce at the 1977 South African Grand Prix. and was later released also as Champions Forever: The Formula One Drivers.
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Unlike the rational humans around them, phages are encouraged to listen with their hearts. A phage is genetically engineered to be stronger and faster than any normal human. He is capable of using something called an "imperative voice", causing most humans to follow his instructions without question (similar to the Voice from Frank Herbert's novel Dune). A phage's weapon of choice is a multi-functional semi- intelligent plasma whip, chosen not for its deadliness but for its psychological effect.
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In 1977, the structure of VFDF was determined as a secondary, bicyclic amine alkaloid, and it was renamed anatoxin-a. Structurally, it is similar to cocaine. There is continued interest in anatoxin-a because of the dangers it presents to recreational and drinking waters, and because it is a particularly useful molecule for investigating acetylcholine receptors in the nervous system. The deadliness of the toxin means that it has a high military potential as a toxin weapon.
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The cultural setting, the deadliness of combat, and the need to preserve and build the character's honour score encourage role- playing and reduce "hack 'n' slash" tendencies. The gamemaster can use the various social obligations of the characters to create dilemmas which cannot necessarily be overcome by violence. Shugenja and Gakusho can use magic but it is relatively weak in comparison with many role-playing games. The social focus of the game also works to suppress the power of magic-users.
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They were explosive-filled steel canisters with a triggering pin and a distinctive deeply notched exterior surface. This segmentation was thought to aid fragmentation and increase the grenade's deadliness, but later research showed that it did not improve fragmentation. Improved fragmentation designs were later made with the notches on the inside, but at that time they would have been too expensive to produce. The external segmentation of the original Mills bomb was retained, as it provided a positive grip surface.
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They are nocturnal and partially aquatic. Once thought to feed primarily on other snakes, they are known to include skinks, lizards, frogs, caecilians, small mammals, and snake eggs in their diets. Despite their intrinsic deadliness, they are not usually considered of high risk to humans in the daytime. Variously described as sluggish, lethargic, and extremely inoffensive, they often remain hidden during the day and, when disturbed, press their heads into the ground or hide them in the flattened or rolled coils of their bodies.
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Although the number of AIDS cases remained small by international standards, public health officials were concerned in the late 1980s about the worldwide epidemic of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The first confirmed case of AIDS in Japan was reported in 1985. By 1991 there were 553 reported cases, and by April 1992 the number had risen to 2,077. While frightened by the deadliness of the disease yet sympathetic to the plight of hemophiliac AIDS patients, most Japanese are unconcerned with contracting AIDS themselves.
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Paleo-Indians artifacts indicate these people lived in Dimmit County as far back as 9200 BC. Archaic period (6000 BC to AD 1000) up to the arrival of the Spanish brought increased hunter-gatherers to the area. These Indians subsisted mostly on game, wild fruits, seeds, and roots. They carved tools from wood and stone, wove baskets, and sewed rabbitskin robes, made pottery and hunted with bows and arrows. Their most effective weapon was the atlatl, a throwing stick that greatly increased the deadliness of their spears.
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Civilization is almost entirely obliterated, leaving the surface of Earth reduced to a desolate, irradiated wasteland. Years later, in 2024, foragers who remain above ground must fight for the remaining resources. Most survivors in the former United States are male, as women were usually in the bombed cities while many men were out fighting in the war. In the novella, nuclear fallout had created horrific mutations, such as the feared burnpit screamers, known for their noise and deadliness (in the film, they appear in only one scene, though they are only heard).
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He took 5 for 29 on a sticky wicket against the formidable Lancashire side and 5 for 42 against Warwickshire. In the 1928 season, his deadliness on sticky wickets was so pronounced he topped the county bowling table with 101 wickets, including 13 against Sussex, and his batting developed so much he edged past 1000 runs with a best score of 98. In the 1929 season, despite only one five-wicket return, he again managed 100 wickets. He was chosen for a second-string tour of the West Indies but did nothing of note.
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The second mechanical method by which violence is discouraged is simply the deadliness of combat in the game. Whilst Story Points act as a buffer helping prevent the actual deaths of a character, combat in the Doctor Who game tends to be swift and brutal, with many alien weapons simply doing "Lethal" damage, rather than a damage number. Characters that seek violent solutions to problems are at grave risk of injury, with damage being removed directly from character attributes. Finally, the premise of Doctor Who makes many problems simply unsolvable by personal scale violence.
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It begins with illustrations of the greater deadliness of the females of different species, the Himalayan bear, the cobra and the Native American, who frightened the Jesuits more than the men. It continues with the general thought that women, "must be deadlier than the male", as she is formed for the one purpose - motherhood. Woman, says Kipling, has the greater determination and single-mindedness in the pursuit of raising her own children, which places her in opposition with other people where their interests clash and makes her less suitable for compromise or public affairs.
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The Centre also monitors current safety occurrences and provides updates on airline safety issues in social networks. The ratings take into account the number and deadliness of the hull losses (destroyed airplanes) they have suffered in the past 30 years, how they have fared more recently, and how many flights they have flown without incident. The results do not take into account the cause of the hull losses, or whether the airline is at fault, so they are not a perfect measure of how safely an airline operates.
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Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has argued that, while a prior history of victimization may be a contributing factor to a violent crime, victimization alone cannot fully explain an act of violence. The vast majority of those who have suffered abuse do not go on to kill their abuser, and there is no known correlation between severity of abuse and the "deadliness of the response".Dershowitz 1994, pp. 24-25 Dershowitz views the effectiveness of the abuse defense as a "lawless invitation to vigilantism" which will serve only to extend the cycle of violence.
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He is able to take out one of them, and evades the other by getting off the train with a motorcycle. Zakev soon alerts the rest of NATO, along with the World Health Organization. They send Dr. Reno and a group of quarantine specialists to the German railway authority, where they meet with Zakev. Due to the deadliness of the virus aboard the train, along with the fact that everyone on board is infected, Zakev announces that, should the train come close enough to Germany, they will be required to detonate a bridge along the train's path using thermonuclear missiles.
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Leptospirosis transmission is shaped by the complex intersections of climate, geography, and socioeconomic factors. In places like Puerto Rico, these factors converge to disproportionately affect people living in poor, urban areas that experience warm temperatures and heavy rainfall. Not only is the risk for leptospirosis in the environment higher in these areas, its potential deadliness as an infection is magnified by the adverse social determinants of health affecting people in these communities. Studies in low-income regions throughout the world indicate that, even controlling for environmental factors, socioeconomic status plays a major role in risk for leptospirosis and the severity of its effects.
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He took 100 wickets for 18.71 each and was second only to Verity in deadliness on the sticky wickets of May and June. His best performances were 9 for 82 against Somerset at Ilkeston, 10 for 54 against Hampshire at Portsmouth and 14 for 90 against Gloucestershire at Chesterfield. However, his limitations on the hard pitches in July and August meant he only reached the rare "double" of 2000 runs and 100 wickets in the last match. Nonetheless, he was named as a Cricketer of the Year by Wisden and toured India, though again meeting with little success.
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Lethality (also called deadliness or perniciousness) is how capable something is of causing death. Most often it is used when referring to diseases, chemical weapons, biological weapons, or their toxic chemical components. The use of this term denotes the ability of these weapons to kill, but also the possibility that they may not kill. Reasons for the lethality of a weapon to be inconsistent, or expressed by percentage, can be as varied as minimized exposure to the weapon, previous exposure to the weapon minimizing susceptibility, degradation of the weapon over time and/or distance, and incorrect deployment of a multi-component weapon.
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The deadliness of the attack is believed to have been increased due to civilians reacting to the chemical attack as if it was typical government bombardment. For conventional artillery and rocket attacks, residents usually went to the basements of buildings, where in this case the heavier-than-air sarin sank into these below-ground, poorly ventilated areas. Some of the victims died while sleeping. Abu Omar of the Free Syrian Army told The Guardian that the rockets involved in the attack were unusual because "you could hear the sound of the rocket in the air but you could not hear any sound of explosion" and no obvious damage to buildings occurred.
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The puppet used for Snootles was also replaced with CGI in the Special Edition. This was made because, according to producer Rick McCallum, Lucas could not achieve the "large musical number" that he envisioned because characters could not move in certain ways; Snootles could not open her mouth to lip sync correctly, and her eyes did not move. The Special Edition increased the size of the Max Rebo Band from three members to twelve. A Polygon author wrote that the new material is "an overproduced intrusion that takes twice as long to add nothing" and distracts from the scene's intention: to establish the trapdoor leading to the rancor and Jabba's deadliness.
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In influenzas of avian origin 2,3-linkage is preferred, vs. influenzas of human origin in which 2,6-linkage is preferable. 2,3-linked SA receptors in humans are found predominantly in the lower respiratory tract, a fact that is the primary foundation for the deadliness of avian influenzas in humans, and also the key to their lack of airborne transmission. In the study that created an airborne avian influenza among ferrets it was necessary to switch the receptor preference of the host cells to those of 2,6-linkage, found predominantly in humans' upper respiratory tract, in order to create an infection that could shed aerosolized virus particles.
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He is also adept at focusing his chi, which enables him to concentrate a lot of power into even a normal civilian cyborg- body and defeat opponents in powered-up cyborg bodies. After Ed's retirement, no other Motorball player can match him in combat except for Alita and her Panzer-Kunst. Jashugan is so good that when he races, he must handicap himself by removing his right arm and face three-man challenge teams. His Motorball body has two grinders built into each arm capable of rotating at high speeds, which increases the deadliness of his Maschine-Klatsch as they can tear through cyborg-armor and dismember opposing players.
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" He noted that the system as a whole "showed a welcome improvement in the efficiency of the air defences; the interception rate against conventional bombers was most impressive. It has, however, emphasised once again the need to press ahead with current developments." This included the upgrading of almost every aspect of the system; new fighters like the Hawker Hunter and Supermarine Swift by day and Gloster Javelin at night, air- to-air missiles to improve their deadliness, the fully operational command and control system envisioned by ROTOR and various radio and radar countermeasures. "All these matters are in hand but on present form it will be 1955 before we can hope to see the full results.
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The Black Death was a particularly devastating epidemic in Europe during this time, and is notable due to the number of people who succumbed to the disease within the few years the disease was active. It was fatal to an estimated thirty to sixty percent of the population where the disease was present. While there is some question of whether it was a particularly deadly strain of Yersinia pestis that caused the Black Death, research indicates no significant difference in bacterial phenotype. Thus environmental stressors are considered when hypothesizing the deadliness of the Black Plague, such as crop failures due to changes in weather, the subsequent famine, and an influx of host rats into Europe from China.
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Couric also co-hosted NBC's live coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1991 until 2005. Couric delivered the graduation speech at her alma mater University of Virginia on May 20, 2012, at Randolph-Macon College on June 1, 2013, and at Princeton University on June 1, 2009. She also works with Carmen Marc Valvo to help publicize the deadliness, yet preventability, of colorectal cancer. On May 16, 2010, Couric received an honorary doctor of science degree for her efforts in raising awareness of colorectal cancer and for her commitment to advancing medical research from Case Western Reserve University, and later gave the university's 2010 convocation keynote address. In 2016, she starred as herself in Sully to recreate the 60 Minutes interview for the film.
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Drilling as a vital component of a war machine further increased with the increases in the size of armies, for example, when Phillip II of Macedon disciplined his army so they could swiftly form the phalanxes that were so critical to his successes as a general. Military drilling later was used by the Roman Army to maximise efficiency and deadliness throughout their long history. After the fall of the empire, the Dark Ages set in Europe, most feudal lords more heavily relied on peasant levies and their wealthy knights to fight their wars, the knights, for the most part, reverting to fighting as individuals. Massed military drilling was used mostly by only the foremost armies and nations, such as the Normans.
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What gave him his edge as a fighter pilot was his keen eye, excellent marksmanship, and willingness to single-handedly take on entire enemy formations and close in on his prey—down to twenty-five yards on occasion—before opening fire. Fellow No. 8 Squadron member Reggie Soar recalled, "Although not a polished pilot, he was one of the most aggressive ... an outstanding shot with both revolver and rifle ...",Franks, Sopwith Triplane Aces of World War 1, pp. 47–48 while ace Robert Comptson described Little as "not so much a leader as a brilliant lone hand ... Small in stature, with face set grimly, he seemed the epitome of deadliness". His squadron nicknamed him "Rikki", after the mongoose "Rikki- Tikki-Tavi", which outstrikes cobras in the story of the same name by Rudyard Kipling.
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He proved deadly in a wet La Niña season in minor games, but had no opportunity of showing his deadliness on a sticky wicket at the highest level because Lohmann and Briggs were so effective. However, Attewell's skill and economy, along with the brilliant batting of Shrewsbury, allowed Nottinghamshire to maintain their position as one of the top counties in first-class county cricket right up to the end of 1892. Even when Attewell became the MCC's chief bowler and increased his aggregate of wickets to around 150 from 1889 to 1892, he did not cement his Test spot, and improving pitches and a severe shortage of support bowling caused Attewell's average to blow out to 21 in 1893 – and his record of 111 wickets at 17.54 in 1894 was disappointing given how much the pitches helped a bowler of his type.
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The Hive is capable of breathing both on land and underwater. Hive's strength level is never revealed but it is implied that the Hive possesses a greater than average physical strength from the combined efforts of its parasites. The Hive's only weakness is that despite the deadliness of its parasites it still has the physical limitations of its human host; in other words, whilst it can improve upon the host's strength and skills it cannot perform impossibilities such as flight if the host cannot. Also, any ailments afflicting the host prior to absorption will still be present and will affect the Hive—for instance, its original human host possessed a minute blood disorder and was also a diabetic—hence, why the HYDRA heads deemed him as fodder for the Hive experiment and would have also made him weak enough to be absorbed.
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Almost all die rolls in Rolemaster are 'open-ended', meaning that if a result is high enough (or low enough), one rolls again and add (or subtract) the new roll to the original result - and this can happen multiple times, so in theory, there is no upper limit to how well (or poorly) one can roll. This means that a halfling does have a chance, albeit slight, to put down a troll with one well-placed (and lucky) dagger strike. However, the fact that one's opponents also fight using these same rules can make Rolemaster a very deadly game for both PCs and NPCs; a lucky shot may let an inexperienced fighter slay a war-hardened veteran. Fans of the system maintain that this adds a great deal of realism not present in many other fantasy games, and reflects the true deadliness of a well-placed strike from a weapon, even a small one such as a dagger.
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Middlesex v Marylebone Cricket Club in 1864 1865 saw no advance on his previous three years despite taking ten wickets in an innings against a very weak Yorkshire eleven, but as Grundy gradually declined with age Wootton came to take on more responsibility for the Marylebone Club and even for Nottinghamshire, where he was always second fiddle to Grundy, Cris Tinley or Jem Shaw. He also established himself as a regular for the Players and other representative elevens, though he did little apart from six for 24 on a Kennington Oval pitch spoiled by rain where the Gentlemen came back and won well.Gentlemen v Players in 1866 1867 was Wootton's most successful season ever with 142 wickets in just nineteen games; though he again failed against the Gentlemen where Alfred Lubbock and E.M. Grace made large scores, he was more terrifying than ever elsewhere until August. The exceptionally hot and dry summer of 1868, however, saw him lose a little of his deadliness with thirty-six fewer wickets, but Wootton recovered this ground for one last time in 1869 before, at the beginning of the 1870s, losing his skill for good just before the heavy roller and motor mower eliminated the shooters that made him so feared.
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