"Human casualties" refers to the people who are injured, wounded, or killed as a result of an accident, conflict, or disaster.
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The terms acceptable» and «unacceptable» signified so many millions
of human casualties on which cool judgments could be made about the need for new and more weapons.
Events during the 2010 - 2012 time period had significant economic impact and were responsible for
human casualties in many areas of the world.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment has decided to constitute «Extreme Weather Forecasting and information Dissemination Mechanism» headed by Rishi Ram Sharma, Director General at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology to prevent
human casualties caused by severe weather induced by tropical cyclones.
While acknowledging certain benefits of «emerging robotic armies» (e.g.,
fewer human casualties for the side deploying the drones), Latiff and McCloskey think that the issues involved are of tremendous moral importance:
The League of Nations, with President Wilson's 14 points, failed; and global blood in ceaseless flood and genocidal gore inflicting millions of
human casualties awakened the peoples of the earth to the urgency of the United Nations as a global guardian and sentinel on the qui vive of peace and security and respect for human dignity, worth of the human person and inalienable human rights.
So, even though the memorandum was about preventing mid-air collisions (not missile strikes), it seems to be an important factor for the US to demonstrably follow all necessary precautions to
avoid human casualties and further escalation of the conflict.
Iweha explained that effort were made by the operation team to recapture the lion alive but proved abortive due to its aggressiveness and it was eventually shot dead to
avert human casualty.
The current fires, which have threatened Californians from near Santa Barbara County down the Pacific coast to Mexico, have claimed at least one
human casualty.
Despite stopping the terrorist threat, the team can not do so without causing significant property losses and
human casualties.
Sorkin depicts both the founder's motivations for starting the largest social network in the world and
the human casualties that came with his profound success.
«Captures a plaintive sense of
the human casualties from unfettered global consumerism.»
Then it just kept paring until much of the mythos established by the 20 Bond movies before it had been discarded as well, leaving only a thrillingly straightforward adventure movie of blunt violence, high stakes, and
human casualties.
The ebook revolution was bloodless, in the sense that there were
no human casualties.
Not the textbook information about World War I, rather
the human casualties that occurred.
For instance, the recent earthquake in Japan caused damage in the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing
human casualties and disruption to energy production.
Direct economic losses and
human casualties of global disasters have increased in recent decades, with particularly large increases since the 1980s.