Poachers saw off a darted rhino's horn, leaving the animal to bleed to death.

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On the other side, these people were suffering and if we didn't deal with it, they'd die, they'd bleed to death.

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If you decline, you won't bleed to death on the hospital steps.

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After yet another abortive United Nations peace initiative, Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said recently he feared the country might bleed to death.

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Thanks to quick action by his wife, a nurse, he did not bleed to death on the spot and is recovering from his wound.

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And now comes an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, the contagious and incurable fever that makes its victims bleed to death through their ears, nose, throat, everywhere.

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He thought he surely would bleed to death there.

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One may ask: Would a European electorate, if given an honest chance to choose self-salvation rather than the bleed-to-death choices they've been given the past two years, vote to save themselves?

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Thames Valley Police said the post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a bleed on the brain.

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