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NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Under pressure from activists, the City Council will consider a resolution regarding proposed state legislation known as the Immigrant Trust Act. The New Jersey Immigrant Trust Act (ITA) is a proposed bill that would protect immigrants by limiting the sharing of their private information by public agencies and curtailing state and local law […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Prosecutors told a very different story in court than what they had told the press and the public about the latest murder in the streets of New Brunswick. Two local men are now incarcerated pending trial on charges they killed Gonzalo Napoleon Quispez-Parades, a 23-year-old city man who was found unconscious on a […]
Local police investigated the shooting of an 18-year-old city resident on Harvey Street. Charlie Kratovil / New Brunswick Today NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ— City police are now investigating a trio of recent shootings, on top of one they already solved earlier in the month of September.
Here are thousands of instances of "our life is short", and I seriously doubt many of them are specific to the lives of, say, a couple living together. It's perfectly normal to refer to human lives collectively in the singular.
When to use "lives" as a plural of life? - English Language & Usage ...
A plural subject requires a plural object (lives), accordingly a singular subject requires a singular object (life). They can be used to mean one person or several people, however. So, if your intention is to refer to an individual who lost his or her life whilst saving the lives of more than one others, then the second is correct and the first incorrect. They is singular in this context, so ...