Word: committedly
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...There are plenty of ways to commit suicide, but few more public than turning a multiton moving train full of passengers into a bullet. Last year in the U.K., 194 people killed themselves on the tracks of mass-transit systems, with some 50 of those choosing the sooty tunnels of the Tube. New York City's subway averages 26 suicides a year. In Paris, 24 died on the tracks of the Métro last year. While it is a fallacy to imagine any suicide as a solitary act - even the tidiest affair leaves survivors stricken - death by train...
...game had changed entirely. "Up to now, we were Sisyphus," says the ICC official, who asked not to be named. "We would go with our fantastic evidence, facts that say Haroun has committed crimes and is in a position to commit new crimes. They'd listen, go back and then forget." This time Costa Rica vowed to put forth a resolution, which would require 9 out of 15 Security Council votes. With the Olympics approaching and the international focus on its handling of Tibet, China did not want to be seen as accommodating the Sudanese. Nor did Libya or Russia...
...Salle order, said the order's recruiting campaign had drawn 12,000 website hits in the past few weeks. "Obviously, a vocation like this is not for everyone," McKeon told the Herald Sun newspaper, "but we have noticed that young people seem to want a cause they can commit...
...remember Jack Kevorkian, the pathological pathologist who, when he wasn't transfusing blood from corpses, refining his "mercitron" machine or arguing for an auction market for human organs, used to help people commit suicide in a rusty van in a public park. So maybe it's no surprise that in the Year of the Outsider, he's finally out of jail (eight years for second-degree murder) and running for Congress as an independent in the Fifth District in Michigan...
...pled guilty in Cambridge District Court on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor and trespassing. He was sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service...