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  • They are theoretically in the best position and have the most motivation to apply that capital towards improving the health of the virtual world avatar birthrate deathrate.

    How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010

  • Two data points don't prove anything, any more than the opposite is proved by the current situation with both troop strength and deathrate very high.

    Is That Legal?: Is Bill Stuntz Right About Military Strategy In Iraq? 2006

  • Average daily deathrate has come down to 14,7; while Natal and East Rand combined accounted for 88% of all deaths.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The deathrate among the colonists continued to be high.

    The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Wesley Frank Craven 1943

  • As a matter of sober fact, the benevolent activities of our missionary societies to reduce the deathrate by the prevention of infanticide and the checking of disease, actually serve in the end to aggravate the pressure of population upon its food-supply and to increase the severity of the inevitably resultant catastrophe.

    The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

  • He was unacquainted with the work either of Holmes or of Semmelweiss, and approached the problem from still another standpoint, drawing attention to the much higher deathrate among women delivered amid unsanitary surroundings.

    The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912

  • Of the great countries, Russia is the only one in which it has not yet taken place, and among the masses of the Russian population we find less education, more poverty, a higher deathrate, and a greater amount of disease, than in any other great, or even small, civilized country.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The deathrate is of course lowered a good deal where exposure of the child is prevented.

    XVI. Waifs of the City’s Slums 1890

  • Giving them so-called 'non' or 'less' lethal weapons only leads to more deaths due to a massive increase in the use of the weapons, combined with a very worrying deathrate (hundreds of deaths per year according to Amnesty International).

    The Tomorrow Times samzenpus 2010

  • Giving them so-called 'non' or 'less' lethal weapons only leads to more deaths due to a massive increase in the use of the weapons, combined with a very worrying deathrate (hundreds of deaths per year according to Amnesty International).

    Slashdot: Your Rights Online samzenpus 2010

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