Sentences with phrase «suicide pact»
A "suicide pact" is an agreement between two or more people to purposely end their lives together at the same time. Full definition
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«We don't want a global suicide pact.
Leaving aside the mutual suicide pact of those that own a disproportionate amount of US Treasuries, the risks that exist stem from an over-indebted economy, and the inability of consumers to resume their role of excess consumption, with accumulation of debt.
Scottish MP Jim Sheridan has called for an inquiry after two teenage girls jumped off a bridge near Glasgow in an alleged suicide pact.
Were the Democrats engaged in a collective electoral suicide pact?
Especially where it concerns getting the Indians and Chinese to sign on to some economic suicide pact based in part on the love of whales (I'm pretty sure whales are part of this at some level; the whale / sonar thread was most enlightening.)
Here, she's fashioned a fictionalized account of the double - suicide pact between Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel), author of The Marquise Of O and many other notable literary works, and Henriette Vogel (Birte Schnöink), a woman he barely knew but succeeded in persuading to die with him (mostly because she believed herself to be terminally ill).
And we will not sign a global suicide pact, in Copenhagen or anywhere.»
Thank you, President Trump, for standing up for America's economy and our workers against those who have embraced the Paris economic suicide pact.»
«People don't want to sign a suicide pact.»
He placed the bodies of Lesley and Trevor together in a car full of carbon monoxide which led police to believe the pair died in a suicide pact.
But it is not a suicide pact.
The Bible does say turn the other cheek, it isn't however a suicide pact that tells us to lie down while muslim extremists attempt to destroy us.
Trapani begins with the story of Jacques and his future wife Raïssa's suicide pact.
Whether the persons be renowned — like former Union Seminary president Henry Pitney Van Dusen and his wife, Elizabeth, whose «suicide pact» made headlines — or just common ordinary folk, we experience strangely mixed emotions.
Apparently this guys financial situation was so bad that he and his wife made a suicide pact and said ``... why leave our children in someone's else's hands...»
The powers of Congress to require military service for the common defense are broad and far - reaching, for while the Constitution protects against invasions of individual rights, it is not a suicide pact.
Although the phrase echoes statements made by Lincoln, and although versions of the sentiment have been advanced at various times in American history, the precise phrase «suicide pact» was first used by Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Has SCOTUS ever ruled explicitly based on «The Constitution is not a suicide pact» rationale?
«The Constitution is not a suicide pact» is a phrase in American political and legal discourse.
As a «final» argument to a discussion, one of the characters uttered a very pithy phrase: «The Constitution is not a suicide pact», which kind of settled the discussion in a way.
In a celebrated case brought by a group of civil libertarians to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1942, Chief Justice Robert Jackson, against the strong argument of civil libertarians on the issues of «interrogation without the due process of law» and prolonged detention of suspects, gave his famous ruling that the United States «Constitution is not a suicide pact».
Police are investigating whether a suicide pact was behind a case of carbon monoxide poisoning that left a Kingston woman
«Let's try and just get to the end of this before we go and go and have a collective, I don't know, not a suicide pact because we're not like that, but dear God.»
Carol Speser dated a young man in college for three years before they both realized they were homosexual and carried out a suicide pact.
The endangerment finding thus sets the stage for eco-litigation groups to transform the Clean Air Act into an economic suicide pact.
Twin sisters from Broomfield known for spirited battle with obsessive compulsive disorder died in possible «suicide pact»
Star - crossed lovers Annabella and Jean - Pierre Aumont draw up a suicide pact, making their fatal rendezvous at the Hotel du Nord.
An elderly couple draw up a suicide pact when the woman is diagnosed as having a terminal illness, and the daughter fights their decision to die.
Also, suicide pacts are never a good idea.
He actually died in a suicide pact — and Leo brought the gun.
Their win came from a suicide pact between the two of them in an attempt to defy Snow and the Capitol.
She must convince the people and President Snow that their suicide pact was done as a romantic move between the two of them and that their love is «real» and all is well in the Capitol.
Amour Fou (Unrated) Costume drama, set in Berlin in the Romantic Era, about a young poet (Christian Friedel) who enters a suicide pact with a terminally - ill socialite (Schnoeink) after failing to convince his kissing cousin (Sandra Hueller) to do so.
Flash fictions like this are everywhere: A loving couple watching the sunset turns out to be in the midst of a suicide pact, the girl being groped on the bus turns out to be a pickpocket.
Then again, I always suspected that one of wanting to get me into a suicide pact.
Yet she had it right all along: the architecture is a suicide pact, but reports of MoMA's death are greatly exaggerated.
African leaders see two degrees as a two degrees as a «suicide pact» due to drought.
I believe the opponents of the accord referred to it as a suicide pact, and they had quite a bit of popular support.
Monbiot even approvingly quoted the Sudanese delegate Lumumba Di - Aping, who denounced the Copenhagen accord as «a suicide pact, an incineration pact, in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries».
Then welcome to the future as a suicide pact.
«We have been asked to sign a suicide pact,» declared Lumumba Stanislaus Di - Aping, the Sudanese chairman of the G77.
When delegates from developing nations were warned that two degrees would represent a «suicide pact» for drought - stricken Africa, many of them started chanting, «One degree, one Africa.»
They are the ones who have forced the developing world into this suicide pact.