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Internationalists, by contrast, focus on democratically agreed-upon norms around human rights, while challenging the state’s prerogative to deploy child soldiers, employ child workers or kill off large parts of the population.

The poison tide had killed off the coastal vegetation, making it the perfect fuel for a wildfire.

Over the past two years, Israel has systematically killed off or hobbled the leaders of its most-powerful enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.

The majority of milk drunk in the UK is heat-treated - or pasteurised - to kill off harmful bacteria.

Her tone in “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” is elegiac, as though smartphones have killed off the craft; yet it’s also a manifesto of sorts, and a declaration of her own aesthetics.