Sentences with phrase «of war casualties»

AGW belief has been tied to religion, here's another relationship: Christians have been preaching that war and killing is evil for close to 2000 years, and as far as I can tell, Christianity has made no impact on the number of war casualties.

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The finding — based on estimates of war casualties throughout history — undercuts the popular argument that humans have become a more peaceful species over time, thanks to advances in technology and governance.

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This needs to be done before Trump kills the deal as the first casualty of the coming war.

The prolonged period of low prices pushed many stressed producer states to the breaking point, and these casualties of the market share war now are threatening to push the market into an acute deficit situation, putting shale's superman status to a serious test.

And that's the kind of war where there are plenty of casualties.

Aid groups report that more than six million people have died in the past decade as casualties of the war, and yet the conflict goes largely unnoticed to the Western world.

«Trade wars create a lot of casualties among innocent bystanders, and there are direct order effects as well as second and third - order effects.»

Allegations of Assad's chlorine use have been frequent during the war although, unlike nerve agents, chlorine did not produce mass casualties as seen last week.

The litany of enterprises who have become repeated casualties in this war stretches across all global industries and international markets.

The conflict faced by Trump's supporters in Montana, where some 28,000 farms and ranches make agriculture a top economic driver in the state, is reflective of the one facing the larger U.S. agriculture industry, which also largely backed Trump but now risks becoming a casualty if a trans - Pacific trade war erupts.

«American farmers appear to be the first casualties of an escalating trade war,» said Max Baucus, a former Democratic senator from Montana and a chairman of a group called Farmers for Free Trade.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

John F. Kennedy was not a victim of the irrational American right wing; he was a casualty of the Cold War» a Cold War, Piereson reminds us, that he prosecuted vigorously, if not always wisely or successfully.

The public did not support President Bill Clinton's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, but American casualties were few, the war ended in victory, and the conflict did Clinton no harm.

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki frightened us, but we considered them necessary casualties in ending the war.

Abel was the first casualty of a religious war too... where God made efforts to keep the peace but Cain unfortunately did the deed.

As evil as Bin Laden was, he was also a casualty of an interminable war between these two religions and the delusions they brought upon him.

Like «The increasing use of terrorism as a tactic in war»: what exactly are you saying there, are you including war casualties (like roadside bombs against convoys) in this statistics too?

Yes, there is colateral damage, and there are civilian casualties, but fewer than with other methods, and those hazards exists in all forms of war (hence why I would understand religion protesting war in general).

In those days we saw ourselves as engaged in a struggle, even a war, and enough of us became casualties to justify that image.

There is too much we simply do not know about the war and the conduct of the war, or even how many civilian casualties there have been.

They became merely the latest casualties of a decades - long civil war that's left 220,000 people dead.

If we fail to acknowledge the infamy of the Hitler - Stalin pact, which consigned these countries to the meat - grinder, and fail to note that most of the casualties and destruction of World War II involved these countries» peoples and their territories, then our picture of the Soviet Union is incomplete — and so is our understanding of what happened in 1989 — 91.

Nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

The first is that nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

What makes this war tactic even more controversial is that U.S. officials rarely mention civilian casualties as a result of drone strikes.

Of the few people who were actually killed, they were enemy combatants, and such casualties are to be expected in any war.

Likewise, the Palestinians «suffer more casualties than Israelis not because... they are somehow more moral» but because they are not as adept in fighting real soldiers in the full «fledged war that is growing out of their own intifada.»

And yet he can't seem to get beyond this one barrier, the one that has made him a casualty of war.

It's clear that some marriages may be yet another casualty of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; I can only hope that we don't add another layer of strain on those marriages by labeling them as failed marriages.

There seems to be barely a day when we don't hear of a tragedy somewhere on the globe — an act of violence, a casualty of war, a community in mourning, a home shattered by abuse.

Nicaragua wasn't one but two separate occupations (and it's difficult to consider the first one a full fledged «war» for the full duration, given low casualties and general lack of hostilities after 1913).

Two of the examples you linked led to military action, many casualties and nearly war.

And, as is often the case in this kind of war, most of the casualties are civilian bystanders.

Generally speaking, this notion of the US as casualty adverse has become entrenched in the minds of adversaries and allies, to the point that a senior British officer considered it a weakness and stated that in future wars, the UK might need to work around «the constraints imposed by this American aversion to casualties.»

With war comes a significant number of casualties.

He is, perhaps, a true casualty of (political) war.

Casualties include hundreds of websites hacked down in the prime of life, plus the dignity of a number of religious leaders — far less destructive than some other uses of the «net in sectarian war in Iraq in darker days past.

A statement allegedly issued by the government of Eritrea is reportedly ordering men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men caused by enormous casualties suffered during the civil war with Ethiopia.

These are rather good systems: S - 75 used in vietnam war and cause notable casualties to US air forces, one of S - 200 downed F - 117 while Balcan war.

US Attorney Preet Bharara's war on Albany's culture of corruption has claimed another casualty: Anthony Bonomo is taking a leave of absence — effective immediately — as the chairman of the board of the New York Racing Association less than... Continue reading →

Not only had the war produced a quick victory with few American casualties, it had come after months of dire warnings from Democrats that intervention in Kuwait would lead to a desert version of Vietnam.

It's inscribed with the same roster of 58,318 war casualties as the original structure, and it's laid out in the same characteristic chevron spread.

«But the rhetoric of war has encouraged an over-reaction in which human rights and the rule of law are among the more obvious casualties.»

«As for the morality of that decision we have recently had both the memorial of the Halabja massacre where thousands of people were murdered in one day by Saddam's use of chemical weapons; and that of the Iran - Iraq war where casualties numbered up to a million including many killed by chemical weapons.

Cathy Newman checks it out If truth is the first casualty of war, then you'd expect plenty of spin, evasiveness and downright lies in tonight's chancellors» debate - the opening salvo in the election battle ahead.

When robots fight in place of soldiers, will wars have fewer civilian casualties?

By analyzing over 500,000 American combat casualties from World War II through Iraq and Afghanistan, University of Minnesota Law Professor Francis Shen and Boston University Political Scientist Douglas Kriner found growing socioeconomic inequality in military sacrifice.