The legislation puts into effect the conditions agreed to by the United Kingdom when it signed an international convention outlawing the use of the weapons, which have been responsible for killing and maiming thousands of civilians in conflict zones.

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If anything, the experts said, a shotgun in that situation might have been the most lethal, since every shell can spray a half-dozen or more pellets, each capable of killing or maiming a person.

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In theory, there's a law against that kind of thing, passed in order to avoid a lot of killing and maiming, but since Maria Shriver, the state's first lady, has been photographed at the wheel with her mobile phone, it must be all right.

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Physicians for Human Rights said it was resulting in the maiming, blinding and even killing of civilians.

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The traditional notion that corporeal resurrection and restoration would accompany the Day of Judgment seemed increasingly implausible to many Americans who had seen the maiming and disfigurement inflicted by this war.

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In other words, the Obama administration appears to have embraced the Taliban line that it will stop killing and maiming our people as soon as there are no more of them in Afghanistan.

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Along with the rest of the detritus of war bomblets from older devices, Iraqi landmines left over from successive conflicts, and vast stockpiles of abandoned weapons left unguarded by Iraq's new occupiers they are killing and maiming those unfortunate enough to stumble upon them.

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