"Carpet bombing" is a phrase used to describe a military strategy where large areas are continuously bombed with no precise targets in mind. It involves dropping many bombs over a wide area, intended to cause damage and destruction on a large scale.
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Here's a very small sample
of carpet bombing all the free promotional channels we found on Twitter (over 30).
Forget
carpet bombing with insecticides or spending millions to devise effective human vaccines: Australian scientists have concocted a novel way to combat dengue fever, a deadly insectborne infection that sickens up to 100 million people every year.
In the 1950s and 1960s, military - style insect - control campaigns in the United
States carpet bombed mosquito breeding grounds with DDT.
According to Galloway, there is a current trend against «industrial
strength carpet bombing» campaigns that blast every media channel with ads.
Personally I want to resort to WWII tactics and we will end this crap with
carpet bombing through out Afghanistan and Pakistan..
General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was
conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.
Not too long ago, nations were killing each other with concentration camps and gulags, firebombing cities, nuking cities and
carpet bombing indescriminately.
I wonder why CNN doesn't think these are newsworthy enough to put on their site but the other topics are
carpet bombed on us.
it doesn't have some of the quirkier mini games and micro-economies like Fallout does, but you can
carpet bomb mountain lions with a helicopter, so it has it's own charm.
I feel like the «anti-WR in the 1st» group has
carpet bombed Ridley enough that most of us feel like he is a reach at 19, but what if he is a lot more WR1 than we are giving him credit for?
Are the North Koreans still a little peeved about the
U.S. carpet bombing campaign that killed some 20 % of the population?
Rather than
carpet bombing cancers, as radiation and traditional chemotherapies do, Gleevec homes in on a single enzyme.
Officials with Ecuador's Galápagos National Park announced Monday they and conservationists from various nonprofit organizations had
begun carpet bombing the archipelago's smaller islands with rat poison systematically released from a helicopter.
Antibiotics do not treat the root causes of acne such as chronic inflammation and excessive sebum production, antibiotics have far too many side effects, and antibiotics give birth to more acne in the long run by
virtually carpet bombing your healthy gut flora.
As far as the antibiotic microbiome... that answer you already know — they'll
carpet bomb nuke your microbiome and likely will not restore to the pre-antibiotic state, ever for some, and it'll take months for others.
I'll work on finding euro SDs to come, and NC Gent should
carpet bomb UK / France / Germany / Scandinavia sugar babies to feel free to attend the meet.
An olympic runner before his
stint carpet bombing Japanese bases from the Southern Pacific skies and getting in dogfights with Zero planes, Zamperini was aboard a B - 24 along with a handful of comrades when it crashed in the middle of the ocean.
Sorry for the
tweet carpet bombing, just wanted to provide context and give appropriate respect to my boy @jessechabot And YES @mdowse is directing the motherfucker!
Anarchy Reigns is another case in point: a multiplayer brawler that allows sixteen simultaneous players to fight to the death as the entire world goes to hell,
fighters carpet bomb the stages, tectonic plates shift beneath their feet and mutants prowl the city streets.
A company like Chillingo can put budgets that most indie studios can only dream of against ad spend, you don't need to spend afternoons tracking down the contact details of a mobile gaming blogger in Newcastle when you can
globally carpet bomb every major gaming site with ads.
The ability to stop time and lay down devastating attacks, such
as carpet bombs and rocket turrets, can wipe out any threat encroaching on your squad's position with extreme effectiveness.
Had the same artist carpeted — or perhaps one should
say carpet bombed — a train station and called it painting?
«Random intervals» usually coincide with you shouting over the fence at him with threats
of carpet bombing his home and entire yard into stone age.
-- Special Weapons: call bombers to destroy all enemies
by carpet bombing — 3 different eye - catching theme terrains.
The frightened New Yorker critic is especially perturbed by the «Bible verses» enshrined at Chick - fil - A's Atlanta headquarters and by the restaurant's popular bovine mascots — which he dubs «morbid» and the «ultimate evangelists» — whose ubiquity on New York billboards and subway corridors is akin to a «
carpet bombing.»
Europeans killed Native Americans, Native Australians, caused ww1, ww2 (killed their own kind like no other), killed Mayans, killed Jews (holocaust), killed about every race on earth, slavery, bombed vietnam, laos, cambodia, multiple south American nations, African Nations, kill millions in Iraq, Afghanistan with
carpet bombing, cluster bombing, napalm, drone bombing and Im not going to go to colonialism for centuries.
England was
carpet bombed every single day for years yet it was «chin up carry on!»
Yes stop the Drone war, so we can go back to Land Wars and
carpet bombing and kill even MORE innocents... / facepalm
they reduce the number of soldiers at risk, and they are far more targeted and precise than say,
carpet bombing, or even small scall but still convetional / even smart bombing.
You're right, better to go back to Operation Arclight, where B - 52's
carpet bombed the bejeebus out of Vietnam to try and root out the VC.
I prefer surgical strikes to
carpet bombing.
Might want to tell Jerry / Stephen / Garrett that maybe they shouldn't be
carpet bombing the O - line and building the offense around Zeke, then.
Speaking of which, I never even heard of
the carpet bombing until this year.
The carpet bombings of Tokyo and the holocausts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been shocking even for those Japanese who had opposed the war.
Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «
carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.
It felt as though these men were
carpet bombing the online dating site in the hopes of getting someone to respond.
The company's strategy has always been to
carpet bomb the market with a bewildering array of devices (both smartphones and tablets), which has worked wonders for the company over the -LSB-...]
Someone should
carpet bomb them flat.