If they do, they may opt to back it in parliament until they are ready to kill it off.

ECONOMIST: Italy's beleaguered prime minister

His delicate pictures contrast with the rough construction and the planned use of each site where men hid, ready to kill the approaching enemy.

BBC: The Last Stand

Between smartphones, tablets and e-readers, we're becoming a society that's ready to kill even a few seconds of boredom with a tap on a touchscreen.

CNN: Have smartphones killed boredom (and is that good)?

"When you have people taken hostage in such large numbers by terrorists with such cold determination and ready to kill those hostages - as they did - Algeria has an approach which to me, as I see it, is the most appropriate because there could be no negotiation, " he told journalists.

BBC: Algeria crisis: Captors and hostages die in assault

Think of the smart, independent, buff, ready-to-kill-if-necessary women from Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Thelma and Louise.

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Opposing bail, prosecutor Gerrie Nel painted a picture of a man "willing and ready to fire and kill, " and said signs of remorse from Pistorius do not mean that the athlete didn't intend to kill his girlfriend.

NPR: Top Detective Appointed New Pistorius Investigator

When King Juan Carlos came to the throne in 1975, after Franco's death, he proved not just ready to live with democracy but its stout champion when some military ninnies in 1981 tried to kill it again.

ECONOMIST: They just won't fold up their beds and slip away