Sentences with phrase «highest number of casualties»

The Merlin radar studies presented in the EIR are worthless, except for telling us in what season and at what time of day we can expect the highest number of casualties from collisions.

Cowal said the ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party (known by its Spanish acronym PRI) in Mexico at the time had shown itself unable to deal with the catastrophe, but it also exposed corruption in municipal building codes that allowed the construction of poorly built buildings which contributed to the high numbers of casualties and property damage.

In no way should they have gotten that high number of casualties.

Passenger train derailments often come with a high number of casualties, and cargo train derailments have been known to spill toxic substances.

Not exact matches

«The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking.»

The naming and subsequent pruning of provisional World Cup squads in recent days has yielded a number of high - profile casualties, among them Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, Antonio Cassano, Esteban Cambiasso, Javier Zanetti and Karim Benzema, and the tournament will undoubtedly be poorer for their absences.

However, the number of people diagnosed with trauma - and stressor - related disorders following the 9/11 attacks only increased approximately four per cent in the period following the attacks (as compared with 16 % following the Breivik attacks), even though the number of casualties was far higher in this attack than in the Breivik attacks — almost 3,000 people died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

During training, the teams practice resuscitating the high - tech dummy, which can be programmed to mimic any number of dire casualties — for example, it may go into cardiac arrest or need a limb amputated.

The number of auto casualties in wealthy nations have waned slightly, especially last year when driving decreased due to high gas prices and economic hardships, but not enough to compensate for the exponential growth in auto dependence and auto deaths in poorer nations.

These mostly preventable deaths, in casualties alone, exponentially surpasses the number of casualties from higher profile, more newsworthy, less common tragedies.

Scott has a broad practice in maritime litigation and arbitration, international trade disputes and offshore, including charterparty, COA, CVC, slot sharing and sale and purchase contract disputes, and a wide range of cargo disputes, as well as working on a number of high profile maritime casualties.