The obvious caveat here is if you are dead sure you will die in the near term, say before age 80.
Bharat Waghela, whose brother Subash was shot dead during the attack, is not sure whether Qasab is even dead.
What we learned, among other things, is that Schlough is dead serious about making sure there is enough 3G and WiFi reception in the stadium to satisfy the large number of smart phones fans bring to the games.
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Readers on CNN.com offered their own comments, advancing a theory that police made sure Dorner was dead to silence him.
And many will, surely, agree that the best way to honour the memory of those 13 dead soldiers is to make absolutely sure that South Africa finds out the truth about the military deployment in CAR.
But by sacrificing himself to ward off other amorous males (even when his mate is nothing but a dead mealworm), he certainly makes sure that it is his best shot.
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Just make sure you start breaking free from the dead tactics that are holding you back.
Sure, you may go down another dead end path.
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Mlilwana says he has received death threats in prison: "I expect any day I will be dead, but before I die I will make sure everything is known, " he told the newspaper.
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Police then found the 10-year-old son dead in the lower part of the house, but they weren't sure whether the oldest child was a victim or a suspect, Richardson said.
"I'm pretty sure that we have two DOAs" -- the term for dead on arrival -- "on the street, " the wounded firefighter said.
So assume away, but be sure to allow for the possibility that your assumptions are either premature, myopic or even dead wrong.
To be sure, eldest daughter Mary, who has now wed that distantly related heir, seems dead set on raising her brood in Downton.
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When employees of Blackwater, an American company, shot 17 civilians dead in murky circumstances last September in Baghdad, Iraq's government immediately revoked its licence, yet nobody seemed sure of the legal consequences.
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