"Our anticipation is that it will be another seven to ten days to complete all of the preparations that we need to exercise this option and then at that point, we'll pump the kill mud and hopefully have this well killed, and well shut off, and the flow shut off."

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

This pressure response has to be associated with the reservoir flowing hydrocarbons and again at this point kill operations should have been initiated by the BP engineers.

WSJ: The Oil Disaster Is About Human, Not System, Failure

It would permit Senate Democrats to kill the reconciliation bill on a point of order.

CNN: By Andrew Taylor, CQ Staff Writer

Until little more than a century ago, hunters from these valleys would make a point of refusing to kill marmots, and shepherds were said to shelter these creatures beneath their huts.

BBC: Legends of the Italian Dolomites