Sentences with phrase «less lethal»

Make the blow a little less lethal than it will be if you simply up and leave.

Amnesty International has expressed concern that fully autonomous weapons, including «less lethal» robotic weapons that can result in deaths and serious injuries, would result in unlawful killings and injuries both in situations of armed conflict as well as in law enforcement operations.

«The main incontrovertible effect of global warming to date is that it has made those severely cold regions slightly less lethal to people and other living things.»

And the virus is not burning out in the bird population — that is, it's not mutating into a less lethal form.

In fact, the game actively rewards you for being less lethal.

Sub Machine Guns SMGs are now less lethal at long ranges.

The film is directed by Shana Feste and is a mix of Romeo and Juliet meets Footloose but with significantly less lethal and less choreographed elements.

His boss, a mysterious white - haired man, sends him to hide out in a mountain village in Abruzzo, where Jack also takes on a presumably less lethal assignment: to custom - make a gun for a beautiful female assassin.

And although less lethal, 40 % of men over 45 today suffer from complications of low testosterone and almost 10 % of women experience menstrual irregularities and infertility.

The other problem — less lethal, but possibly commercially deadly — is that the coating, though edible, is not entirely tasteless.

Building on that work, the current paper looked at a less lethal strain, the H1N1 «swine flu,» that does not infect neurons, but which, the researchers showed, still caused inflammation in the brain via inflammatory chemicals or cytokines released by immune cells involved in fighting the infection.

The researchers also analyzed studies exploring the effects of an amendment of the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the add - on sentencing laws adopted by a number of states during the 1970s and 1980s, which added prison time to crimes committed with a gun rather than a less lethal weapon.

«The Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) are considering it as part of their on - going remit to evaluate new less lethal technologies against the Acpo Operational Requirement.»

Our tolerance of the real killer drugs and our abhorrence of the drugs which are far less lethal is hypocritical, or at best a selective moralism reflecting fashions of indignation.

The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

Not exact matches

He said the use of water is «less than lethal» compared with protesters» use of slingshots and burning logs.

Last year, North Dakota become the first state to make it legal for law enforcement to use drones with «less than lethal» weapons, like stun guns, pepper spray, rubber pullets, and beanbags.

«Drones could provide the ability to incapacitate a suspect from afar with less - lethal means,» says Smith.

Smith says less - lethal weapons like stun guns could help police diffuse a tense situation without escalating violence, and keep a suspect alive, without endangering bystanders with gunfire.

Precincts have started adopting or increasing use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death.

Precincts have started adopting or increasing their use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death while still giving police options when facing would - be assailants.

Here's the deal, first and foremost, mary jane is so much better than any of the legal substances, the sheer hypocrisy of allowing something more lethal to be on the market while the lesser substance can result in a felony and jailtime is just madness.

You stated,»... the sheer hypocrisy of allowing something more lethal to be on the market while the lesser substance can result in a felony and jailtime is just madness.»

As The Washington Post notes, The lawsuit says, «Inexplicably, the Officers failed to contact any properly trained mental health counselors or make any attempt to use less than lethal force and ignored the established police protocols to make attempts to de-escalate the situation.»

When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.

Essentially, they assume these techniques are non-lethal as opposed to less - lethal.

[108] She explains that the county program instituted a compensation program to encourage ranchers to adopt the new (less - lethal) practices.

We think that less than that would be lethal.

I think that less than that would be lethal.

Lethal combination as both are known for scoring goals (Giroud some what less effective but sometimes he can score good goals like last against man utd last match, Pod needs gametime but once he get chances we all know how lethal he is).

-- A lethal ST & Competitive DM — Less injuries to key players (Alex, Kos, Ozil, Santi etc.)-- Consistency from August to May — Turning up with the right mentality whether it's Norwich at Home or Chelsea away

Less than four minutes later, Marian Hossa demonstrated another way to beat Quick — with a lethal deflection of a Duncan Keith shot from the point:

We should have been looking towards a quicker more mobile lethal front man and we stuck with the less mobile target man as our choice of play for far too long.

When you start agitating about whether delayed or immediate cord clamping affected the outcome of an infant that has a completely lethal anomaly, in my opinion you are missing the point of the situation, and now come across as less thoughtful and credible.

The White House seemed to have recognized it as a lost battle and put in less effort, according to Sen. Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump to hold Nashville rally amid efforts to boost GOP Senate hopeful Kim Jong Un surprises with savvy power plays Tax reform postmortem reveals lethal dose of crony capitalism MORE (R - Tenn.)

The precautions make work in a BSL4 extremely demanding, slow and physically taxing, which is one reason such research lags behind studies of less - lethal organisms.

It's now far less socially acceptable and we hope this means fewer young people will fall into such a potentially lethal addiction.

The idea of the weapon is to «create a heating sensation that repels individual adversaries», according to the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) in Quantico, Virginia, which develops less - lethal weapons for the US military and coastguard.

Less than 1 % of people who get both shots will contract the potentially lethal skin and respiratory infection.

In the study, mice given a lethal dose of dengue virus less than a week after receiving the protective DMAb were completely protected from lethal disease — significantly more rapid than vaccine - driven protection, which can take weeks to months to reach peak efficacy levels.

However, many synthetic lethal interactors are less reliable due to the fact that such genes usually do not perform fundamental or indispensable functions in the cell.

The team had also hoped that the fungus would become less virulent — as often occurs when a pathogen reaches a new host that lacks any immunity — but that hasn't happened: Fungal spores taken from the last fire salamanders in the Belgian forest, when dripped onto the backs of healthy salamanders in the lab, were just as lethal as those collected early in the outbreak.

Relative to XpdTTD / KO hemizygote cells, UV survival was improved by the homozygous lethal Xpd † XPCS allele in XpdTTD / † XPCS compound heterozygous cells and to a lesser degree by the Xpd † XP allele (Figure 4A).

«The Soviets were less interested in this pathogen because they wanted lethal agents.»

The orbit was chosen by NASA to avoid lethal belts of charged particles that surround Jupiter much like the less dense Van Allen belts that encircle the Earth.

And in 2009, two coffee studies suggested additional benefits: Coffee - drinking men seemed to have a lower risk of advanced or lethal prostate cancer than other men, and middle - aged people who drank moderate amounts of coffee — three to five cups a day — had the lowest risk for dementia and Alzheimers disease later in life compared to less (or more) frequent drinkers.

Melanoma is much less common, but it's also a lot more lethal; while less than 1 % of skin cancer cases are melanoma, it causes the vast majority of skin cancer deaths, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

* 3 - 5g of sodium * 1000 mg of potassium FROM FOOD [OTC Potassium supplements are regulated by the Gov» t to contain less than 99 mg each as too much supplemental potassium can be lethal.]

Maybe, and Snake's got plenty of lethal weaponry at his disposal if I decide to take a less stealthy route.

«Throughbreds» (whose title was singular when it premiered in Sundance's NEXT section in January 2017) may have been overshadowed by «Get Out» at that film festival, but it's no less elegant or lethal, concentrating its satire not on racial mind games (the way Jordan Peele did, seizing the zeitgeist in the process) but a case of blue - blood breeding gone horribly awry.