"direct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a study, humans accounted for 43.2% of 1,355 reported deaths, which included direct killing and roadkills, while predation (including by larger birds of prey) accounted for 2.8%.
- Pope John Paul II declared in 1995 that "the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being is always gravely immoral."
- "The direct killing of the innocent is always a grave injustice."
- Some argue that what is happening is a form of direct killing.
- Yet a substantial ethical gulf separates direct killing from "allowing to die."
- Wars may also result in the direct killing of species for food or profit by displaced people.
- This invasion often leads to cell death either through direct killing by the virus or by self-destruction through apoptosis.
- Most of the Japanese died out of starvation, banzai assaults or direct killing.
- The murder of Lucian Yorne had been a clever crime; more than the direct killing which Joe Cardona supposed it to be.
- More than a million Armenians were exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches.
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