So this non lethal weapon was being used, in fact, in this case as a lethal force multiplier to make killing more effective in this particular situation.

Explicitly introduced as an alternative to the use of lethal force an alternative between shouting and shooting.

So their attitudes to the use of lethal force are very different, and I think it's fairly obvious that their attitude to the use of non lethal weapons would also be very different from what it is with the police.

Military personnel are being trained for war, so they're trained that, as soon as things go bad, their first response is lethal force.

The police and knowing because I've actually helped to train police police, in particular Western jurisdictions at least, are trained to de escalate force, to try and avoid using force wherever possible, and to use lethal force only as an absolute last resort.

Well, there are other cancer tumors in the abdomen quite lethal, very lethal actually pancreas, liver, kidney.

America s Lethal Fear of Science

(f) The investigations carried out by the State party into a number of deaths by lethal force arising between the entry into force of the Convention in 1988 and the Human Rights Act in 2000 which have failed to fully meet its international obligations

The Lethal Deferral of Greek Debt Restructuring

Accordingly, in follow up to the above mentioned letters, it is my regret to inform you that the Israeli occupying forces continue to use excessive and lethal force against the Palestinian civilian population under occupation.

In domestic birds, especially chickens, it's 100 percent lethal.

Stephen Coleman The moral dangers of non lethal weapons

The manufacture or possession of lethal or explosive machines or devices

500 years ago, it ran into a competitor with a lethal advantage.

Spieth has been lethal from tee to green and is leading by example.

One of those problems is that non lethal weapons may be used indiscriminately.

Fishing gear can inflict lethal cuts and wounds on fish and marine wildlife.

Yet the top priority for the leader of a fragmented state is to gain and consolidate a monopoly on the legitimate use of lethal force. And donor countries tend to support the leader, because doing so allows them to standardize and simplify assistance.

(k) The State party should take all practicable steps to review investigations of deaths by lethal force in Northern Ireland that have remained unsolved, in a manner, as expressed by representatives of the State party, commanding the confidence of the wider community

In other words, your perfect non lethal weapon is something that's perfect for abuse.

The virus was 100 percent lethal to pregnant women and we don't actually know why.

And after circulating around the world came back in a form that was tremendously lethal.

Both neighbouring countries provided the armed forces of Guinea Bissau with non lethal military assistance.

The second ethical argument is based on the commandment thou shalt not kill which also enjoins the state from killing. But this argument is undermined by the fact that the state can resort to lethal force to prevent serious crimes, or to fight a war or rebellion.

You've got non lethal shotgun rounds that contain rubber pellets instead of the traditional metal ones.

(c) For the supply of non lethal military equipment intended solely for humanitarian or protective use

Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non lethal, weapons in civil war.

But I'd remind you what I'm talking about, I'm talking about military uses of non lethal weapons.

A lethal dose of the insecticide is absorbed by insects which come into contact with the surface.

It's one of the most lethal things we've seen in circulation in the world in any recent centuries.

In other words, since the enforcement of the law against suspected criminals, rioters or terrorists may legitimately require the use of force, and even of lethal weapons, by the police and other security forces, only if such use of force is disproportionate in relation to the purpose to be achieved and results in pain or suffering meeting a certain threshold, will it amount to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment.

If you don't get out of there, you're going to be exposed to lethal radiation in very short order.

There will soon be thousands of laboratories around the world capable of producing designer bugs with awesome lethal potential.

UNDP has continued to use the available funding to purchase non lethal and communications equipment for the national police.

So if they had non lethal weapons then they would say, Well we can use them in that sort of situation.

Debris will cyclically collide with each other and thus create more remains that effectively form a lethal shell around the earth.

Making, possessing, storing, acquiring and transferring lethal or explosive devices and appliances or other toxic biological weapons or weapons of war

I investigate photography's ability to blur truth and fiction, and its influence on memory, which can lead to severe, even lethal consequences.

I've been told by the Revolution of Military Affairs crowd for years, we can do it faster, cheaper, smaller, just as lethal.

Clearly the bottom line is the virus eventually attenuates, and ceases to be a lethal virus to humanity, and finds other hosts.

AIDS, he heard, was lethal, and treatment was not offered. This was at a time that treatment actually existed in rich countries.

Lack of confidence in and fear of others has long prompted States to rush to acquire the most sophisticated and lethal weapons.

MONUC continues to be exempted from the embargo, as do supplies of non lethal military equipment intended exclusively for humanitarian or protective purposes.

The vote was also in keeping with action by the Council to find a solution to the lethal conflict under way in Darfur.

I'd like to buy some concentrated, compressed gas cylinders of a lethal gas because I have these ideas, see, about wanting to suspend people.