And what about the ethics of employing a military force that, increasingly, never has to see blood or experience mortal fear?

There has been no instant of mortal fear.

She was wary of the hairdryer and had developed a mortal fear of hand dryers in public loos.

We do not live in mortal fear of the elements, as they do across much of the planet.

To move fearless in war, cradled in a sense of destiny, would be to become an almost celestial entity, surfing terrible reefs unshackled by mortal fear.

But council officials said his greetings put pupils in mortal peril.

Those left alive were often in mortal peril.

The hands point to locations on a dial including 'home', 'work' and 'mortal peril'.

It denied that it had desecrated any mortal remains.

Our mortal remains then enter a geological lottery.

For centuries the two cities have engaged in a tug-of-war over the poet's mortal remains.

Displayed alongside the library's two copies of the 1215 agreement will be the king's mortal remains - or at least his thumb and two of his teeth.

He won't go back but his mortal remains might.

Music piracy represents a 'mortal threat' to the industry, he says.

Over recent years sarcopenia's mortal threat has largely been ignored by mainstream public health medicine.

When you're facing a potentially mortal threat for the second time, it isn't as scary as before.

If untreated, pensions deficits can become a mortal threat to the survival of a business.

Back in the mid-1980s, cinema was, he admits, in 'mortal threat'.

For most companies, such severe retribution would be a mortal wound.

Mounting the rail, he ordered the sentries to fire on the approaching enemy, and while exposed he received a mortal wound.

He remounted, and shortly afterwards received a mortal wound.

After this, the person would then appear before his lord, give a speech in which he announced the protest of the lord's action, then reveal his mortal wound.

He attempts to do so anyway, but only manages to strike one of the birds on the feathers of her wing, damaging her wing, but not inflicting a mortal wound.