He wondered why the U.S. Justice Department prosecutes statistical disparities between men and women or blacks and whites in employment and housing, but not in matters of life or death?
Whether judged insane and then probably committed for life or judged sane and probably sentenced to death, let us not forget that this horrific, heinous example of random gun violence should not have happened.
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Mr Bryant says any conviction on a murder charge would carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death, and that he will not agree to charge Mr Rideau with the lesser crime of manslaughter.
Stephens had already explained that the jury's decision, either life or death, would be final and wasn't just a recommendation.
The gameplay features a more Hollywood style of action, upping the ante with heavily armed (Russian and Chinese) enemies and tense life-or-death scenarios.
She is also known for an ability to block out the noise of high-profile cases and make life-or-death decisions for her clients under intense pressure, those who know her said.
Whether the cause was childhood infection, difficult childbirth, heart attack, or pneumonia, the interval between recognizing that you had a life-threatening ailment and death was often just a matter of days or weeks.
Not to have food, water, health care or a secure environment is a matter of life and death.
Most Italians point instead to the overweening power of the baroni (barons), or tenured professors with the power of academic life and death.
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We won't second guess his decision, since we don't know the exact terms of the deal (though apparently they were pretty bad), but you know what, TiVo is sort of in a life-or-death situation right now and might have to take what it can get if it wants to stick around.
Yet the pact dates from an age when cross-border cooperation, or lack of it, was a matter of life and death.
It is relatively straightforward to show how successful heart ops are because they are so serious, and often a matter of life or death.
More and more we are being told by the experts from on high experts who influence medical groups and insurance companies, including Medicare to reduce preventative testing and take our chances on life or death.
This will be useful because the location and activity of receptor proteins on surface membranes can be a matter of life and death for a cell or a virus.
Under North Korean law, defectors face a minimum of five years of hard labor and as much as life in prison or the death penalty in cases deemed particularly serious.
But we will all fare less well with less medical care (rationing is a fact of life--or death--in nationalized systems) and little pharmaceutical innovation.
"We've tightened the screws and had each member in a critical life-or-death situation, " he said.
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The sentences of Saddam and those of his co-defendants receiving death or life-in-prison will automatically be appealed.
In many cases, like sanitation or water, making progress solving these challenges is a matter of life and death for millions of people every day.
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Even when people do not much believe in the hereafter, they easily invoke or envisage heavenly beings to ease death and make some sense of life.
The more realistic approach to life-or-death situations reflects "a different generation, and a different generation's approach, " says Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects, the film's U.S. distributor.
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In time, the five gyres will kick debris onto their shores, at low cost or no cost, low carbon footprint, and no death to marine life in the process.
That know-how, coupled with the discipline learned through rigorous training and a sense of responsibility that only dire, life or death situations can instill, makes veterans returning to civilian life uniquely suited to the startup life.
On the other hand, the ability to look at an industry and find the new product that turns college kids into billionaires is not the type of skill that is typically selected for or heightened in the military, where rigorous discipline can make the difference between life and death.
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England and Watts could face anywhere from life with the possibility of parole or a death sentence for the murder charges.
The Communist Party had the power of life and death over Soviet citizens, but they were powerless to revise or repeal the laws of physics or the principles of engineering.
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They know that death is a part of life, whether we like it or not, and ignoring this essential truth comes with a heavy psychological cost.
As they become smarter and more widespread, autonomous machines are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in unpredictable situations, thus assuming or at least appearing to assume moral agency.
People tend to buy life insurance and then forget about it but a change in your financial situation or a birth, death, marriage, or divorce in your family could require you to update your beneficiaries or the amount of insurance you need.
Or we can keep on the current path, lose more of our freedom, and eventually have life-and-death decisions controlled by bureaucrats.
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