Sentences with phrase «high numbers of dead»

(Paragraph four of the essay) The U.S. and UK forces managed to topple the government and capture the key cities of a large nation in only 21 days, taking minimal losses while also trying to avoid large civilian deaths and even high numbers of dead Iraqi military forces.

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

Some survivors said residents may have placed too much faith in the levee, known locally as «the Great Wall,» leading to a higher number of dead and missing people.

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An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

There's no rush to bet this game now since «5» is considered a dead number, but there's plenty of reason to like the Badgers in this high profile matchup.

It turns out that's kind of a dead area of research because once you get to a critical number, no matter how high you get after that, they don't improve absorption.

Though the government puts the death toll for the entire province at about 1,500, almost everyone here believes the actual number of dead is far higher.

In its Veteran's Day 2011 debut, this comedy drew 4.9 million viewers, a little more than a quarter of the initial audience for High School Musical 2 and a little more than half of Camp Rock's number, but bigger than all but three football games and an episode of «The Walking Dead» among that mid-November week's cable broadcasts.

In light of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead — and a number of incidents going back to Columbine in 1999 — are public schools going to make any major changes in the near future to protect students from such incidents?

In Costa Rica's northwestern province of Guanacaste, which is experiencing the worst drought in 100 years, veterinarians received reports of 19 dead monkeys in the first months of 2016, though unreported numbers are likely higher.

High Moon's Transformers: Fall of Cybertron makes it in at number five, with Dead Island GOTY and The Amazing Spider - Man making way in the top ten for the newcomers.

The Dead or Alive franchise is primarily known for three elements - frantic high - speed fighting, character physics, and an immeasurable number of costumes.

As the performers moved about the space in a random pattern of loose choreography, they sang the lines: «Who say you have to be a dead dog... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... And it comes down, it comes down, well it comes down, and it comes down, it comes it comes... Scores of blood and fire and freeways, I am going to get my share... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... Who say you have to be a dead dog...» Handling each other's bodies with as much regard as the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performance.

He ordered state agencies to remove dead or dying trees from high - hazard areas and proposed expanding the number of days when tree waste can be burned.

«The number of dead zones currently on our map of the world is 10 times higher in temperate areas than it is in the tropics, but many marine biologists work out of universities in Europe and North America and are more likely to find dead zones close to home,» the STRI scientist said in a statement.

If your resume doesn't have the right number of key words to rank high, or doesn't use those words in the way the ATS best recognizes them, or doesn't place those words in the right locations in the document, your candidacy for that role is dead in the water.