moment of execution

"Usually things become clearer as I get closer to the moment of execution," he said.

Indeed, so natural is the delivery that at the moment of execution one takes his playing almost for granted.

Yet did Orontes seek any excuse to postpone the moment of execution.

They were believed to have magical powers sufficient to transport a condemned person to a state of peace at the moment of execution.

The daily routine in the prison until the moment of execution was quite comfortable, and conditions were better than in many British jails at the time.

Rescripts in forma gratiosa are effective from the date they bear; others only from the moment of execution.

It is important that at the moment of execution the attacker looks into the kick to note its direction, while maintaining a high-guard position with his hands.

The splicing of the voices of both victim and killer, to re-create the moment of execution, is riveting.

The actual moment of execution was not filmed since the cameraman was too slow, and he managed to get into the courtyard just as the shooting ended.

Believing the man innocent, Everett battles the case right through to the moment of execution in a film directed "with righteous indignation and increasingly strong momentum" (Maslin).

Debuggers are useful for other things that Purify is not intended for, such as for stepping through the code line by line or examining the program's memory by hand at a particular moment of execution.

These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy, till the moment of execution, and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do, without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people.

If one succeeds in giving the eyes a secondary role, or else shuts them altogether, one soon notices an extraordinary musical detail in these performances, one that seems at the moment of execution so natural that it occurs to the listener only later.

He would release the safety and be prepared to race down to the checkpoint at the moment of execution, ready to kill the Italian guards if they interfered, intent on firing into the body of a man coming out of the darkness to reach a woman crossing the border.

Unlike other men, who enter with ardor upon a perilous resolution and grow cold as the moment of execution approaches, the Duc de Beaufort, whose buoyant courage had become a proverb, seemed to push time before him and sought most eagerly to hasten the hour of action.