The phrase
"early casualty" refers to someone or something that is harmed or affected negatively at an early stage or in the beginning of a particular situation or activity.
Full definition
Coral reefs are
early casualties of climate change, but not every coral reacts the same way to the stress of ocean warming.
One
early casualty of Audi's electric strategy was the R8 e-tron supercar; the automaker quietly announced its demise last week after less than 100 examples were reportedly built and actually delivered to customers in Europe.
Frequently, in the rush to realize the aforementioned «synergies» and cost reductions,
early casualties are education reimbursement benefits, career development training or even long - term incentive plans.
April 4 - U.S. aerospace companies, automakers, grain merchants and chipmakers were
the early casualties on Wednesday after China and the United States announced tariffs on $ 50 billion of imports, cementing fears they were spiraling towards a trade war.
Australian Brennan, favorite for the gold medal in the women's single sculls, almost became
an early casualty.
Two year old federal net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing websites and online services, could be
an early casualty of the new Trump administration.
As the possibility of a trade war between the US and China looms, threats and counter-threats are hurled back and forth and markets gyrate, economic logic and truth appear to be
an early casualty.
The Methodist ethos that had enabled people of diverse views to work together in mutual respect was
an early casualty of numerical losses.
The First Amendment's establishment clause would be
an early casualty.
The very qualities which make possible a growth - producing family — tenderness, compassion, emotional maturity in parents — are in short supply or are
early casualties of the illness of alcoholism.
Napoli, Athletico Madrid & Dortmund are better than some of these round of 16 teams but unfortunately, they are
early casualties to this format (except Napoli).
David Silva was
an early casualty, forced off with 23 minutes gone after failing to recover from a heavy Gabriel tackle.
Also the working group of Trading Standards home authorities responsible for the baby food companies was
an early casualty of cut backs, being wound up by the LACORS — now the Local Government Association.
«Otiko can be
an earlier casualty.
He said the «triple lock» on state pensions, which guarantees they are uprated by a certain level, could be an «
early casualty» of a Brexit.
But if the elections get rigged, there would be an uprising and she would be one of
the early casualties.
The shutdown of the federal government already has
an early casualty: the Air Force Academy's athletic schedule.
An early casualty of a Cameron premiership would be the long summer holidays enjoyed by MPs - a pledge calculated to tap into the anti-politician mood sweeping the land.
Early casualties of a sporting life: Thoroughbred racehorsesare pampered aristocrats of the equine world.
The hippocampus plays a critical role in learning and memory and is the brain region that is often
an early casualty of Alzheimer's disease.
Done in ahead of his time by an overhyped publicity machine, 70s glam rock musician Jobriath retreated to the Chelsea Hotel to die, forgotten, as one of
the earliest casualties of AIDS.
But its inclusion serves to throw into stark relief the very real terror and upheaval experienced by the drugs war's
earliest casualties: average Mexicans who do not have the option to stay out of it.
Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private,
an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»
But while
the early casualties were mostly in the developed world, today Chinese manufacturers are feeling the pain, too.
In Australia's rushed and ridiculous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, objectivity and compassion were
early casualties.
If a state does indeed enshrine that going rate in its law (as UK law once did in the Employment Protection Act 1975, Sch 11 —
an early casualty of the Thatcher revolution) then the Directive would work in the way the unions want.