| Trappers kill the cowbirds by asphyxiating them with automobile exhaust or by breaking their necks. |
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| Employing poison weapons or asphyxiating gases is classed by the tribunal as a war crime. |
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| Suddenly, he was floating in space, miraculously not asphyxiating from lack of oxygen. |
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| They don't seem to notice the sun beating down or the fact that most people look as if they are asphyxiating. |
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| The dust clouds raised by cars were still asphyxiating, but macadam was slowly bringing relief. |
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| The rot spreads, mould covering the sheen of life, dragging it down with cloying, asphyxiating stealth. |
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| Apparently the thick, nonporous tape kills the wart by asphyxiating it or something. |
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| It came from all sides, asphyxiating him, robbing him of the peace of mind he so desperately craved. |
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| Second Battle of Ypres, in which the Germans use asphyxiating gas for the first time. |
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| It was the distinctive sound of a duck asphyxiating on a franger. |
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| So they spent eight years taking the humming economy they inherited and asphyxiating it. |
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| Changing temperatures in the lake during the winter could have brought stagnant water to the surface, thus asphyxiating entire schools of fish. |
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| The protocol prohibited the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and of bacteriological methods of warfare. |
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| The contracting powers agreed to abstain from the use of projectiles whose object is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases. |
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| The use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases is prohibited at all times and under all circumstances. |
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| Which, and how many, are the effective resources mobilised to put an end to an asphyxiating and explosive debt in Latin America? |
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| For a while, all this democracy seemed to be asphyxiating democracy. |
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| Gas masks protected soldiers against asphyxiating agents, but no adequate protection had yet been found against mustard gas, which attacked the skin. |
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| Or maybe it's all that smog and all these celebrities are asphyxiating. |
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| In 1925 the Geneva Protocol, which now has some 130 parties, prohibited the use of asphyxiating and poisonous gases and bacteriological weapons in international conflicts, though it did not apply to internal or civil wars. |
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| But no one could support the idea that, to maintain a function, there is pleasure in a kind of asphyxiating paralysis which compromises the future. |
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| The rest of the train will now be even more packed and asphyxiating. |
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| Whereas none of them believe in ideal love, they definitely know what they want: a mature man, who knows what he wants, with a personality, involved but not over romantic, asphyxiating or too dependent from them. |
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| The Conference acknowledges that the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare, and the Convention complement each other. |
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| On the morning of August 19th, news that police had fired tear gas into a packed prison lorry, asphyxiating 36 Islamist suspects, prompted widespread outrage. |
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| If the rule were to disappear, so too would the liquidity, asphyxiating the NYSE. On February 20th, a congressional sub-committee on financial services held a rare hearing in New York. |
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| Boa constrictors kill their prey by asphyxiating them and strangling the life out of them. |
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| Duckweed is not toxic to fish, but some scientists are concerned that it could suck oxygen out of the lake as it decays, asphyxiating large numbers of fish. |
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| Asphyxiating in the confines of a petit bourgeois existence, a tedious job, and a demanding family, Vassiliki's testimony tests the limits of the postfeminist age. |
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