In order to help protect close relatives, termites have been found to explode during fights, bees die after stinging, while the members of another species of ant have been found to condemn themselves to death by sealing in a nesting colony from the outside.

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To do nothing is to condemn countless children to death.

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In fact, such an approach will condemn COCOM to death by a thousand cuts.

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Supporters of the compensation ban have unquestioningly allowed their mistaken moral discomfort to warp the market and condemn many to an unnecessarily early death.

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Public-health officials retort that this would condemn millions to misery or death from a preventable disease.

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