Sudden-death Sentence Examples

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  • Dean knew in time, he'd get over the sudden death of Edith Shipton but he also knew the fact he failed to stop her from killing herself would remain with him forever.

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  • He was still at college in Vienna when the sudden death of his father raised him to the Khedivate; and he was barely of age according to Turkish law, which fixes majority at eighteen in cases of succession to the throne.

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  • The situation was, however, relieved through the sudden death of Requesens (March 1576).

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  • The sudden death of Podebrad on the 22nd of March 1471 led to fresh complications.

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  • But late in the afternoon of the 13th of February 1883 his friends were shocked by his sudden death from heartfailure.

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  • In the last years of his life (565) the emperor adopted the extreme Aphthartodocetae position, and only his sudden death prevented this being forced on the Church.

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  • He married Maria in June the same year, and she shared the sceptre with him till her sudden death by accident on the 17th of May 1395.

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  • But now the queen's sudden death on the 1st of August, and the appointment of Shrewsbury to the lord treasurership, instantly changed the whole scene and ruined Bolingbroke.

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  • Johnson, of whose various and often merely churlish remarks on Garrick and his doings many are scattered through the pages of Boswell, spoke warmly of the elegance and sprightliness of his friend's conversation, as well as of his liberality and kindness of heart; while to the great actor's art he paid the exquisite tribute of describing Garrick's sudden death as having " eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure."

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  • From 1861 till his sudden death in 1870 he was professor in the Jewish high school at Frankfort.

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  • But after the sudden death of his son John in December 1470, Rene, for reasons which are not altogether clear, decided to move his residence to Provence and leave Anjou for good.

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  • In the same year he had been an unsuccessful candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, but subsequently an arrangement was made between him and John Gregory, who had gained the appointment, by which they agreed to deliver alternate courses on the theory and practice of physic. This arrangement proved eminently satisfactory, but it was brought to a close by the sudden death of Gregory in 1773.

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  • On Ballance's sudden death in April 1893 his place was taken by Richard Seddon, minister of mines in the Ballance cabinet, whose first task was to pass the electoral bill of his predecessor, which granted the franchise to all adult women.

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  • The sudden death of the king, by a fall from his carriage in Tirol in 1854, left the throne to his brother John, a learned and accomplished prince, whose name is known in German literature as a translator and annotator of Dante.

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  • In her thirteenth year her brother promised her in marriage to Alphonso of Portugal, but she firmly refused to consent; her resistance seemed less likely to be effectual in the case of Pedro Giron, grand master of the order of Calatrava and brother of the marquis of Villena, to whom she was next affianced, when she was delivered from her fears by the sudden death of the bridegroom while on his way to the nuptials in 1466.

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  • His intention of still further humiliating the Teutonic order was frustrated by his sudden death in 1501.

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  • Simultaneously, Gertz was negotiating with Cardinal Alberoni and with the whigs in England; but all his ingenious combinations collapsed like a house of cards on the sudden death of Charles XII.

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  • The sudden death of the tsarevich Demetrius at Uglich (May 15, 1591) has commonly been attributed to Boris, because it cleared his way to the throne; but this is no clear proof that he was personally concerned in that tragedy.

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  • But on Alexander's sudden death in 323, when Athens in the Lamian war tried to reassert her freedom against Antipater, Aristotle found himself in danger.

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  • If this exhalation is stopped or lessened the digestion in its turn is also stopped, the leaf remains longer than usual in the intestines, the microbes multiply, invading the whole body, and this brings about the sudden death which surprises the rearers.

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  • The sudden death of the duchess, attributed on dubious evidence to poison, left her unprovided for, but the king placed her among the ladies in waiting of his own queen.

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  • The sudden death of William, at the moment when he had crushed opposition, led to a reaction.

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  • For a time no serious steps were taken against Louis, but after King John had met his death at Crcy Charles, who succeeded him as king of Bchemia, began to make vigorous preparations for war, and only the sudden death of the emperor (October 1347) saved Germany from civil strife.

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  • The hope that this might bring about some agreement was frustrated by the sudden death of the cardinal, and his successor was more under the influence of the Jesuits and the more extreme party.

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  • After visiting the chief medical schools on the continent, he returned to Ireland in 1788; but the sudden death of his elder brother, Christopher Temple Emmet (1761-1788), a barrister of some distinction, induced him to follow the advice of Sir James Mackintosh to forsake medicine for the law as a profession.

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  • The sudden death of his father in February 1578/9 necessitated Bacon's return to England, and exercised a very serious influence on his fortunes.

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  • Her sudden death from dysentery, shortly after the birth of her fourth child, was accordingly attributed to poison.

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  • On the sudden death of Potemkin he was despatched to Jassy to prevent the peace congress there from breaking up, and succeeded, in the face of all but insuperable difficulties, in concluding a treaty exceedingly advantageous to Russia (9th of January 17 9 2).

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  • But all such hopes were defeated by the sudden death of the king, who was killed by a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn on the 16th of March 1285.

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  • The sudden death of the emperor in 1347 added to the difficulties of his position.

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  • By the sudden death of the Duchess Mary in 1482 her possessions, including the county of Holland, passed to her infant son, Philip, under the guardianship of his father the Archduke Maximilian of Austria.

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  • The sudden death of William in the hour of his triumph caused a complete revolution in the government of the republic. He left no heir but a posthumous infant, and the party of the burgher regents of Holland was once more in the ascendant.

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  • A parliament had been called in November; it voted that all the charters given by the king at Mile End were null and void, no manumissions or grants of privileges could have been valid without the consent of the estates of the realm, and for their own parts they would never consent to such, of their own free will nor otherwise, even to save themselves from sudden death.

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  • Smith moved from the war office to the treasury, and became leader of the House of Commons; while Lord Salisbury himself returned to the foreign office, which the dramatically sudden death of Lord Iddesleigh, better known as Sir Stafford Northcote, vacated.

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  • His sudden death was felt, not only throughout the empire but throughout the world, with even more poignant emotion than that of Queen Victoria herself, for his personality had been much more in the forefront.

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  • The sudden death of his old friend Baron Samuel Josika and the once more darkening political horizon led him, in a moment of despair, to take his own life (April 8, 1860).

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  • Otherwise, reference was made for an interpretation to the pontifices in olden times,afterwards frequently to the Sibylline books,or the Etruscan haruspices, when the incident was not already provided for by a rule, as, for example, that it was unlucky for a person leaving his house to meet a raven, that the sudden death of a person from epilepsy at a public meeting was a sign to break up the assembly.

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  • The patent was being made ready, when all was arrested by the sudden death of the son who was to Burke more than life.

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  • Africa after peace was signed, only to lose Botha almost immediately and to find himself, by the sudden death of his leader and close friend, Prime Minister of the Union in Sept.

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  • However, the sudden death of Charles Alexander in March 1737 put an abrupt end to these plans, and the regent, Charles Rudolph of Wurttemberg-Neuenstadt, had Oppenheimer hanged.

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  • The sudden death of Lambert shattered the hopes which this alliance seemed to promise.

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  • One was the sudden death of the young King Alexander a bare fortnight before the election.

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  • Louiss sudden death in 954 once more placed the Carolingian line in peril, since he had not had time to have his son Lothair crowned.

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  • By the beginning of the 13th century the Capet monarchy was so strong that the crisis occasioned by the sudden death of Louis VIII.

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  • On the sudden death of Albert in 1439, Hunyadi, feeling acutely that the situation demanded a warriorking on the throne of St Stephen, lent the whole weight of his influence to the candidature of the young Polish king Wladislaus III.

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  • Two days before his very sudden death while working in his workshop, he served the elements at the morning communion service.

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  • Louise Neel RoSPA 102 28 July 2005 I was very saddened to hear the news of the sudden death of John Howard.

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  • Loren Roberts squandered a five-stroke lead, then won a sudden death playoff over Eduardo Romero to capture the Senior British Open yesterday.

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  • Voltaire never wrote anything equal to Omars fascinating rhapsodies in praise of wine, love and all earthly joys, and his passionate denunciations of a malevolent and inexorable fate which dooms to slow decay or sudden death and to eternal oblivion all that is great, good and beautiful in this world.

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  • When, in view of his growing blindness, lie offered to resign the bishopric, he was induced to reconsider his proposal, and on the sudden death of Archbishop Benson in 1896, though now seventy-six years of age, he accepted the see of Canterbury.

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  • Nevertheless, at this the eleventh hour of ter opportunities, Sweden might still have saved something from the wreck of her empire if Charles had behaved like a reasonable being (see CHARLES Peter The Great; Gortz, Georg Heinricii Von; Osterman, Andrei); but he would only consent to play off Russia against England, and his sudden death before Fredrikshald (Dec. i 1, 1718) left Sweden practically at the end of her resources and at the mercy of her enemies.

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  • The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.

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  • We are sad to announce the sudden death of David Wheeler on Wed 7th June.

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  • He lived 27 years 4 months 11 days. " Sudden death snatched away the prime of his life ".

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  • The sudden death of a baby must occur before the child is one year of age for the death to be characterized as SIDS.

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  • This sudden death occurs during sleep, and it is also a peculiar condition that seems to affect otherwise healthy babies.

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  • It can cause problems as minor as a heart murmur, but it can also cause sudden death with no warning signs.

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  • Alcohol and cocaine mix to form cocaethylene, a substance that increases the risk of sudden death.

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  • Although rare, sudden death can even occur with just using crack.

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  • Inform your doctor if you have heart problems because there have been reports of adults and children experiencing sudden death due to Adderall.

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  • More recent headlines included the sudden death of her son, the birth of her daughter, and the debate over the father of her newborn.

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  • Reported details of the sudden death have been conflicting and it remains under investigation to find the exact cause.

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  • The sudden death of Heath Ledger left many friends, family members, colleagues and fans heartbroken.

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  • The sudden death of Billy Mays in June of 2009 shocked many people.

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  • Many celebrities spoke out regarding the sudden death of Murphy, while the rest of the world waited to discover how someone so young could die of a heart attack.

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  • Haim was addicted to prescription drugs throughout most of his adulthood, and his sudden death on March 10, 2010 seemed to be a result of an overdose.

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  • In rare cases, mitral valve prolapse can cause sudden death.

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  • When the stomach contents moves into the esophagus, there is the possibility that this material will be aspirated into the windpipe, which can cause asthma, pneumonia, and possibly suffocation or sudden death.

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  • Some children aspirate the stomach contents, which can cause pneumonia or even sudden death.

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  • Brugada syndrome is another rare congenital cardiovascular defect that appears in adulthood and may cause sudden death if untreated.

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  • In athletes and others, it can lead to sudden death.

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  • The likelihood of having a child with a congenital cardiovascular defect increases if the mother or father, another child, or another relative had congenital cardiovascular defects, or there is a family history of sudden death.

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  • In the aftermath of Michael Jackson's sudden death in June of 2009, all things MJ were once again brought into the spotlight, from collectors' item tickets to his now defunct London concert tour to vintage t-shirts and LPs.

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  • As the story goes, Laura Jean died a fairly sudden death from a high fever.

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  • In 1981, he joined NBC's daytime drama Another World as Stephen Frame, a role he played until the character's until his sudden death in 1983.

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  • They seemed destined for a long career in the music industry, but Karen Carpenter's sudden death from anorexia in 1983 marked a tragic end for this beloved duo.

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  • The sudden death of Peter the Great seriously injured Bestuzhev's prospects.

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