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According to the Irish Independent, the new law will punish those who spike someone so they can "overpower or sedate" someone to "engage in a sexual act, cause harm, make a gain or cause a loss, or otherwise commit an offence".

By comparison with today’s armies of gnomes, inflatables and sleighs with reindeer, we were sedate, which is to say boring, in a nice way.

Contrasted with other antivirus suites, Wolf seems relatively sedate, rarely popping up notifications and never bullying the user into paying for a subscription.

Fishing is sedate enough that nature can reassert itself around you.

German police are said to be investigating these new accusations, along with the claims Christian B used car paint solvent to sedate the child.

It has multiple urban centers but is not yet truly urbanized, ranging from the chaotic and decaying megalopolis of Karachi to the more sedate boulevards of the capital city Islamabad.

The husband is alleged to have used the drug Lorazepam to sedate his wife by mixing it into her meal, before inviting men to have sex with her while she was unconscious at their home in Mazan, near Avignon.

They invited the Freys to go along, to learn how they sedate cats with a tranquilizer dart, lower them to the ground to evaluate, collect biological samples and attach a collar before letting them go.

While most dog bite incidents are not as horrifying as this, there is always a chance that even the most sedate of dogs might bite someone.

Afghanistan’s chase of 253 began in sedate fashion.

It’s as if we are under the influence of daily doses of Soma, like the drug in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World used to sedate and control the population, keeping them docile and obedient and preventing any dissent.

It was able to move on from its attempted insurrection and reestablish a more sedate political equilibrium largely because it lacked America’s Republican Party.

Midazolam, a benzodiazepine (the same class of drugs that includes Xanax and Valium), is often used to sedate hospitalized patients in the ICU.

So given the sedate nature of Jersey, how are Pride partygoers welcomed by locals?

Take a platform shared with a sedate Buick and a grandfatherly Oldsmobile, attach a Pontiac grille, wrap the car in excessive trim, drop in a supercharged V6, and you've got the Bonneville SSEi.

A family of 14 has said life under lockdown has been "calmer and more sedate than normal everyday life".

Anderson’s celebrations were characteristically sedate, even as the brisk applause from the scattered gathering of teammates, ground-staff, broadcasters and commentators echoed in the empty stands in the absence of the crowd.

Buffett, famous for his relatively sedate lifestyle, turns 90 on August 30.

Last week, I confessed I spent more time watching Trump’s bombastic TV town hall than Biden’s more sedate one on a rival network.

Distraught families have told how relatives with autism and learning disabilities are locked in solitary cells, fed through hatches like animals, and forcibly injected with drugs to sedate them.