Sentences with phrase «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.

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

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.

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.

Pedestrian casualty rates remained the same.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

«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.

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

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.

(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.)

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

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

Not exact matches

Given the risk of early stage investing and venture capital's famously high mortality rate of portfolio companies, it is imperative that fund managers earn high return multiples at these more modest M&A exit values to offset casualties and drive attractive returns.

Despite boasting a 110 % strike - rate, Aguero is set to become the next casualty of Guardiola's ruthless revolution, according to The Mirror.

It's amazing how fast the «one child harmed is too many» argument comes out when discussing natural methods, but when it comes to prescription drugs or routine hospital procedures, suddenly massive side effects and a certain rate of casualty is the norm.

Trump has proposed cutting the business tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, and there's been speculation that incentives for solar and wind projects could be a casualty of that plan.

Spinal injuries were present in 872 out of 7,877 casualties analyzed — a rate of 11.1 percent.

These advances, combined with enhanced protective gear, helped produce the highest U.S. combat survival rates in history: Today less than 10 percent of combat casualties die from their wounds, compared with 19 percent in World War II and 16 percent in Vietnam.

Even compared with the casualties of the Black Death, the mortality rate was extraordinarily high.

Rates of road traffic casualties had started falling before the introduction of the scheme, and continued to fall afterwards, but at a greater rate in young people, largely among passengers and cyclists.

With rates of dementia rising dramatically, you're not alone in wondering how to avoid becoming another casualty.

This is, of course, the latest casualty of the whole Judd Apatow R - rated comedy epidemic, where good writing, clever jokes and likable characters are crudely shoved aside for a torrent of boobs, F - bombs and drugs.

Unlike with property and casualty companies (auto and homeowner), health insurance companies do not utilize your consumer report for underwriting, or premium rate setting.

Because property and casualty insurance in California isn't able to use credit based insurance scores in rating or underwriting.

The value of real estate and portfolios that invest in real estate may fluctuate due to: losses from casualty or condemnation, changes in local and general economic conditions, supply and demand, interest rates, property tax rates, regulatory limitations on rents, zoning laws, and operating expenses.

Another casualty could be bond investments because the escalating rates on new bonds make current bonds less appealing, and investors start selling them.

With offices in both the US and Canada, Dalbar develops standards for, and provides research, ratings, and rankings of intangible factors to the mutual fund, broker / dealer, life insurance, property and casualty, and managed account industries.

We compiled this list from an analysis by A.M. Best, a global company which reports on insurer financial strength ratings for life insurance and property and casualty insurance firms around the world.

The answer is that credit is in no way a rating factor on Bakersfield renters insurance, nor on property and casualty coverage anywhere in California.

REIT Risk (Real Estate Fund only): The Fund's investments in REITs may subject the fund to the following additional risks: declines in the value of real estate, changes in interest rates, lack of available mortgage funds or other limits on obtaining capital, overbuilding, extended vacancies of properties, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws and regulations, casualty or condemnation losses and tax consequences of the failure of a REIT to

Real property values and income from real property may decline due to general and local economic conditions, overbuilding and increased competition, increases in property taxes and operating expenses, changes in zoning laws, casualty or condemnation losses, regulatory limitations on rents, changes in neighborhoods and in demographics, increases in market interest rates, or other factors.

Only the primary objectives are required to complete a mission, but the rating and medals that you receive afterwards will depend on your completion of the optional and secret objectives, as well as standard goals such as killing the enemy leader or taking minimal casualties.

But we can not use an econometric model to dissect the phenomenon beyond simply noting that a significant relationship exists between the false alarm rate and increased casualties.

However, Professor Muller then uses the record of severe tornadoes — those rated EF3 — EF5 and responsible for the most extreme damage and casualties — to reach the following conclusion: «One thing is clear... The number of severe tornadoes has gone down.

Our study uses a false alarm rate for tornadoes as a control variable in a model to estimate casualties and we find that an increase in the false alarm rate does translate to higher casualties.

Unfortunately, much of that hard - earned momentum was a casualty of the freeze as well as HB 483, which basically tripled setbacks for wind turbines and made future commercial - scale development unviable.The renewable sector is particularly lagging, in the E2 report showing a scant 1.5 percent job growth in Ohio far lower than the national wind and solar rate.

However, Muller then uses the record of severe tornadoes — those rated EF3 to EF5 and responsible for the most extreme damage and casualties — to reach the following conclusion: «One thing is clear... The number of severe tornadoes has gone down.

These medical malpractice rate reductions also demonstrate, once again, the important role that Proposition 103, which authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to reject excessive rate hikes for property and casualty insurance including medical malpractice insurance, has played in reining in medical malpractice rates since its passage in 1988.

Fernet USA is an independent property and casualty agency licensed to write motorcycle insurance in 47 states for A + Rated insurance companies.

Industry experts have long observed that the property / casualty insurance industry is cyclical in nature, with periods of soft market conditions, during which premium rates are stable or falling and insurance is readily available, followed by periods of hard market conditions, where rates increase and coverage may be more difficult to find.

The state of North Carolina caps property and casualty insurance rates.

Colorado operates under a competitive, or file and use, rating system for property & casualty insurance.

«The process of adjusting property and casualty insurance rates in the United States is heavily regulated.