As the years went by the pressure for specific reforms was too strong to be resisted, and resolutions dealing with them were adopted; but they have never again reached anything resembling the range, the well-nigh revolutionary proportions, or the suicidal capacity, of the Newcastle Programme.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
You have rescued me from a mood that was almost suicidal, Thessaly.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
But this could not last, and, feeling that he was becoming a burden to the staff, he strove by suicidal efforts to show himself still capable of working.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann