Because civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan have died as a result of collateral damage or mistaken identities, Predators have generated international opposition and prompted accusations of war crimes.
Economic policymakers can’t make peace between Arab rulers and their people or stabilize Japan’s nuclear reactors, but they can minimize the collateral damage.
America is now a battleground between these three, with metropolitan papers suffering collateral damage.
SCALPEL is a small weapon system that offers precision engagement while minimizing the potential for collateral damage in close air support and urban environments.
In addition, separate design flaws that in isolation are minor can interact with each other in surprisingly damaging ways and quickly lead to a huge amount of collateral damage.
Such particles can be tailored to release their payloads only when the surrounding environment indicates that they are near a tumour, thus reducing collateral damage.
A sense of foreboding gripped the Street as top executives feared collateral damage from a Lehman liquidation.
These can be moved, for example, to increase the speed of attack or decrease collateral damage.
Meanwhile the use of military force can exacerbate the terrorist threat by stoking anger against the United States and U.S. policies, largely because of the inevitable collateral damage.
RADIOTHERAPY, the use of radiation zipping through the DNA of cancer cells to kill them or halt their reproduction, has always had the disadvantage of causing collateral damage to healthy tissue.
Unless the Qaddafi forces withdraw, hitting them rather than the rebels resisting them will be difficult, while the risks of collateral damage if the fighting spreads within Benghazi will be high.
