Even today it is clear that cold, not heat, is deadlier to human condition.

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The villains, even the deadlier ones, are the stuff of Saturday morning kids television.

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His speech attacking George Bush senior in 1988, for example, would have been deadlier delivered by someone else.

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But the coronavirus so far appears deadlier, with 30 cases including 18 deaths.

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But the U.S. officials focused mainly on a deadlier version of the improvised explosive device: the explosively formed penetrator.

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So far, the new, deadlier flu strains exist only in laboratories, of course.

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The torment of enduring that wait can paste a cancer patient to the couch, a surrender heavily associated with deadlier outcomes.

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Scepticism was understandable, since an even deadlier wave of rainwater mixed with sewage engulfed the city last winter, prompting another investigation and promised cures.

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Virtual enemies can quicken attacks or wield deadlier weaponry.

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Consider the lives saved as a result of thwarting just two of KSM's deadlier plots: One was an attack aimed at Heathrow Airport and the other was to have hit a West Coast version of the World Trade Center, likely the Trans America building in San Francisco.

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