Sentences with phrase «casualty rate»

The declining casualty rates highlight the growing relative importance of the conflict's economic costs due to, for example, property damage, reduced business productivity, and defense spending.

(There is a high casualty rate in this movie, involving more than just anonymous thugs or soldiers, which is something to consider if you're planning a family outing to the multiplex.)

Road Safety campaigns have been a feature of our lives since the government starting trying to cut casualty rates in the 1970s.

In an early sequence on a beach, Winston imagines the waves turning red, and he frequently frets over the inevitable casualty rates of the invasion.

The high casualty rate from the indiscriminate use of drones in civilian areas and use for extrajudicial executions.

Ostensibly deployed to carry out peacekeeping and reconstruction, they became embroiled in the kind of sustained high - intensity warfare equivalent to Korea or even the Normandy Bocage, with casualty rates to match.

Another problem with the current GI Bill is that it gives more generous benefits to regular service veterans than to reservists or National Guard members, a large number of whom have faced the same dangers and casualty rates as their regular - service comrades during long, full - time deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He had joined the army as a boy soldier, and his Gloucester regiment had sustained one of the highest casualty rates at the time.

London's congestion charge has proved that the exemption of motorcycles from charging has not only improved personal mobility for commuters, it has also reduced casualty rates.

Pedestrian casualty rates remained the same.

Dogs also suffered high casualty rates too as their excellent sensitivity to smell meant that they were employed to search for mines and trip - wires, commonly resulting in injury or death from resulting explosions.

Initial data suggests that combatants that focus on the creature's face first, then its weak points as it reacts, suffer lower casualty rates.

Its appearance on the battlefield requires immediately engagement by all nearby units, with high casualty rates reported for both human and Chimeran forces.

By the end of the four - year conflict, the first in which aviation played a major role, the RAF had 27,000 officers and 260,000 other personnel operating more than 22,000 aircraft, but had seen high casualty rates.

Vietnam was raging, and he was quickly assigned to a unit with a high casualty rate.

«Indeed, the respective kill ratios and casualty rates are perhaps some of the starkest in the annals of 20th century warfare,» Iskander Rehman, a senior fellow at the Pell Center, wrote in summer 2016.

Figure 1 shows that this casualty rate per rocket had a clear downward trend.

The strength of the Afghan security forces has declined sharply over the past 12 months, a US government watchdog has said, amid reports of desertions and high casualty rates.

Just tell the jihadists to stop blowing up Muslim civilians, & imbedding among them to raise the casualty rates for propaganda.

The casualty rate seems to be increasing, perhaps because the world has become much smaller for our children.

They plotted two data sets: one comparing overall population size and the size of that society's fighting force, and another comparing army size and casualty rate.

The practice has since been discredited by many as a costly failure, but that doesn't detract from the bravery of the men who flew repeated missions in the knowledge that casualty rates were high.

Objective is to introduce students to range of key information - what the trenches were like, the difference between the German and English, casualty rates, weaponry, who fought in the trenches, war at sea - without labouring over «life in the trenches»

The casualty rate of more than 64 % was higher than that of any other nation engaged and Australia's highest in any war.

In Hong Kong, which has a long history of death and destruction wreaked by landslides, a Slope Safety System introduced by the government in the mid-1970s has resulted in a 50 percent fall in the casualty rates from landslides on the 1977 level, targeting a further reduction — to 75 % — by 2010.