Sir Edmund Hillary's ghost would come down and beat you senseless with a crampon, but you could wear it.
Diaz's mother Genie Hernandez described it as a "senseless crime" against a hard-working man trying to raise a family.
It would be just another story people told each other, another cautionary tale about the McKechnies, how in that family one brother could kick the other senseless over a borrowed sweater.
Between 1998 and 2000, a senseless war with neighbouring Eritrea cost a fortune and prised many of the strongest hands off hoes and on to rifles. (In Eritrea, the aftermath has been even bleaker: 2.3m people now need food aid, out of a population of only 3m.) Ethiopian peasants are also burdened with taxes on the land they lease from the state, and levies for clinics, schools and roads.
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"The Deepwater Horizon explosion was a senseless tragedy that could have been avoided, " Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer said in a statement.
It was a "normal lazy Sunday morning" that ended in the brutal and senseless murder of a promising Cardiff teenager.
The arrest last week of four men, including a white builder, accused of beating a black worker senseless and feeding him to a lion, has sparked a tense debate over race relations.
Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan condemned the murder and said it was a senseless act.
The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club, which organized Sunday's parade, decried what it called a senseless attack.
As it turns out, because of a senseless and barbaric act, Luis is going back to Mexico after all -- for burial.
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Colombia's current troubles have their roots in what is called The Violence, a senseless, murderous civil conflict that raged from 1948 to 1958, killing more than 200, 000 people.
Steve Hannah, the website's chief executive, apologised to the best actress nominee, saying that "no person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire".
The National Rifle Association has denounced the assault weapons prohibition as "a senseless ban of firearms based on cosmetic features, " and the powerful gun-rights group opposes the background checks provision as opening a door to a national gun registry.
The Nan-Shan was being looted by the storm with a senseless, destructive fury: trysails torn out of the extra gaskets, double-lashed awnings blown away, bridge swept clean, weather-cloths burst, rails twisted, light-screens smashed and two of the boats had gone already.
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But, Mr. President, I think we both believe that despite this incident, we will not be deterred from creating a path whereby Afghans can live in freedom and safety and security and prosperity, and that it is going to be important to continue the efforts to bring all elements of Afghan society together to end what has been a senseless cycle of violence.
"Kwame's death was but a part of a poisonous and senseless feud between two rival gangs of youths in south London, " Mr Aylett told the court.
"I want to begin by expressing our community's grief, our collective grief, over today's senseless and tragic death of a young member of the Hofstra family, " he said.
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But the notion that it is somehow a kind of senseless, emotional, let's just wake up in the morning and kill our neighbors kind of crisis is very misleading.
"I want to express our community's collective grief and our sorrow over the senseless and tragic death of a very young member of the Hofstra family, " university President Stuart Rabinowitz said.
The seed of today's FORBES GLOBAL was planted at an inauspicious time--in the worst days of a tragic, senseless world war, one that brought to an end the first great era of international commerce.
The Senseless Panic of 2008 led to a collapse of the economy and caused enormous pain to millions of people.
"We are shocked and dismayed at this senseless violence, " he said in a statement, calling on the labor movement and company to work with the government to stabilize the situation.
"That this senseless act of violence should be targeted at a place of religious worship is particularly painful, " Singh, himself a Sikh, said.
What is startling about it is the ownership of their process for creating the practices, and their collective intention to put a stop to random acts of senseless productivity.
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Hitlerism has done these things to Germany for more than six years, and it has built up on this fundamental iniquity a superstructure of added brutality and senseless racial persecution.
"As a retired police officer, this senseless shooting hits extremely close to home to me, " Brad Carpenter, chief executive officer of Forza, said in a statement on the company's Web site.
Indeed, despite a national outpouring of grief, the senseless attack aroused surprisingly few public demonstrations of wrath with the North.
Senseless violence, of the variety we see on a weekly if not daily basis in America, is unheard of here.
We suppose at least no one will have cause to complain about how senseless it is to try and watch video on a tiny PMP screen.
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, said the cuts were "senseless".
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