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killing
A highly profitable transaction (cf. no brainer).
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (4 ed.)
... killing make a killing have a great financial success, especially on a stock ...
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The Handbook of International Financial Terms
... . A highly profitable transaction ( cf. no brainer...
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
... For the distinction between killing and letting die, see acts/omissions doctrine ; see also abortion , death , euthanasia , just war...
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Peter Singer
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
... . Presumably no society could survive unless it had some restrictions on its members killing each other. But the prohibitions that societies have on killing vary greatly. In Greek and Roman times to be a human—that is, a member of the species Homo sapiens —was not sufficient to guarantee that one's life would be protected. Slaves or other ‘barbarians’ could be killed, under conditions that varied from time to time; and deformed infants were exposed to the elements on a hilltop. The coming of Christianity brought a new insistence on the wrongness of...
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The Oxford Companion to the Body
... Throughout the history of humankind, acts of killing have been used not only to regulate the lifespan , but also to place social value on particular kinds of bodies. While almost all civilizations have outlawed murder , certain forms of killing, like the murder of slaves and enemies, have been tolerated and indeed sanctioned by various societies at different historical moments. Even before birth, the body may be killed through induced abortion and other types of feticide, such as stabbing the fetus in the womb. Although the abortion of nonviable...
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Jacobus (Kobus) Kok
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
...condemn the killing of animals. In recent years, some have begun to condemn the brutal killing of animals for human consumption and the unethical way animals are treated in mass-production plants (See Linzey, 2003 ; McCance, 2013 ). In the later New Testament writings, Jesus’s death is presented as having nullified the Jewish sacrificial system ( Heb 10: 1–18 ), which by implication put an end to the killing of animals for cultic reasons. Killing and Violence in Postbiblical Traditions. In the beginning centuries of Christian thought on killing, early...
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A Dictionary of Superstitions
..., killing 1972 EVANS & THOMSON Leaping Hare 99 [Lissduff, Co. Offaly] They say it's unlucky to make a practice of killing hares. Something always turns up. Something happens. They say about poachers—that if something happened to one, they'd say: ‘He can't have better luck! He's always going about killing and catching...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... zone an area in which a commander plans to force the enemy to concentrate so as to destroy the enemy with conventional weapons or the tactical employment of nuclear...
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A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
... fields [Hist.; Cin.] Areas of countryside where large numbers of people were executed in Cambodia under the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. The phrase passed into the language following the release of a film about the events entitled The Killing Fields in 1984 . > A place of large-scale death or suffering A special issue of The Sunday Times Magazine in 1998 , titled ‘Who is killing the countryside?’, pointed to the ‘killing fields’ of Cambridgeshire, where intrusive farming methods ‘are slowly stripping the landscapes of...
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A Dictionary of Superstitions
..., killing 1922 [Somerset] It is unlucky to kill a cat or kitten. Many people prefer to pay someone else to do it. It is very unlucky for a farmer to drown a cat, it foretells bad luck with his cattle. Cf. CAT : drowning at sea...
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Mohamad Shahid Mathee
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection
...evidence, is on the increase in Muslim communities. Much has been written on honor killings in terms of statistics, the role of inherited culture, the sources of the concept of honor killing, and the stance of both ancient and modern Muslim scholars toward the practice, with a common assumption being that honor killings are inevitably linked to Islam as a religion. Yet, regarding honor killings per se Arabic, jarīmat al-sharaf ), modern Muslim scholars have been uniform in ...
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A Dictionary of Superstitions
..., killing 1787 GROSE Provincial Dictionary Superstitions 64. It is held extremely unlucky to kill … a lady-bug. 1855 Gents Mag . pt. 2 384–5 [Shrops./Worcs.] Considered unlucky … to kill a lady-cow. 1899 Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 11 Feb. 7 [Jesmond] It is very unlucky to kill a lady-bird. It should be set free to the rhyme: ‘Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home Thy house is on fire, thy children all roam; Except little Nan, who sits in her pan, Weaving gold laces as fast as she can.’ 1922 [Bridgwater, Som.] If you see a little insect which...
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
... frost A sharp fall in temperature that damages a plant so severely as to cause its death, or that prevents the reproduction of an annual , biennial , or ephemeral plant. As the falling temperature approaches freezing-point, some water is lost from the vacuole into the intercellular spaces, where a further drop in temperature causes it to form small crystals of ice. If the temperature then rises slowly, the water will be reabsorbed by the cell as the ice melts and the cell will recover, but if the thaw is rapid the water will be lost and the cell...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... frost A sharp fall in temperature which damages a plant so severely as to cause its death, or prevents the reproduction of an annual , biennial , or ephemeral plant. As the falling temperature approaches freezing point, some water is lost from the vacuole into the intercellular spaces, where a further drop in temperature causes it to form small crystals of ice. If the temperature then rises slowly, the water will be reabsorbed by the cell as the ice melts and the cell will recover, but if the thaw is rapid the water will be lost and the cell will die...
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...mercy killing A contentious euphemism for euthanasia ....
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... out percentage The weight of a carcass expressed as a proportion of the liveweight of the animal before slaughter. Typically, killing out percentages vary between 45% and 55% for ruminant species such as cattle and sheep. That of pigs is higher, around 75%, due to differences in the preparation of the...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... No Murder A pamphlet ironically dedicated to Oliver Cromwell , ‘the true father of your country; for while you live we can call nothing ours, and it is from your death that we hope for our inheritances’; it advocates his assassination. It was written by the Leveller Edward Sexby (d. 1658 ) and printed in 1657 in the Netherlands. The name on the title page is that of William Allen, who had been one of Cromwell's Ironsides. See O. Lutaud , Des révolutions d'Angleterre à la révolution française: le tyrannicide et Killing No Murder ...
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A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2 ed.)
...oxygen-dependent killing The major bactericidal mechanism employed by phagocytes as the primary defence against infection. Various toxic oxygen species (hydrogen peroxide, superoxide, singlet oxygen, hydroxyl radicals) are generated through the metabolic burst . Defects in the system are responsible for chronic granulomatous disease . See chemiluminescence ; myeloperoxidase ....
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... No Murder A pamphlet ironically dedicated to Oliver Cromwell , which advocates his assassination. It was written by the Leveller Edward Sexby ( d. 1658 ) and printed in 1657 in the Netherlands. The name on the title page is that of William Allen, who had been one of Cromwell's...
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...killing or wounding A war crime under the Statute of the International Criminal Court whereby the perpetrator kills or wounds the victim by taking advantage of the victim's belief that he is in a state of protection under international law . In international conflicts it protects the armed forces and civilians of an opponent. In non‐international conflict it does not apply to civilians. Guerrilla fighters dressed in civilian clothes would always be guilty of perfidious killing or wounding by pretending to have civilian status, but they are not...
