They took care to avoid civilian casualties.
US and Nato casualties in Afghanistan are fast mounting.
In any armed conflict, casualties from both sides will be inevitable and innocent people will suffer.
Large sports stadium is the place for large-scale mass activities, where once an accident will result in high casualties.
Ron Madrid, an expert on non-lethal warfare, says that a new laser-warning system has proved particularly effective in reducing casualties at checkpoints in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The broad geographical spread of rising unemployment reflects the extent to which a recession generated by the credit crunch has taken casualties throughout the private sector.
A: on the situation in Syria, China believes it is imperative to ease the tensions as soon as possible so as to avoid further escalation of the situation and greater casualties.
No casualties have been confirmed.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The casualties caused by the air crash can be described as unprecedented.
If the firemen were not rescued in time, the danger of the fire would be heavy casualties.
American military personnel have suffered through multiple deployments and endured disabling casualties; their families and personal lives have been disrupted and sometimes permanently shattered.
In Europe and Africa during World War II, the proportion of mental traumas among all casualties was close to one in four — one mental health case for every three blood wounds.
Squad Seven suffered many casualties.
If they point to the Union Jack badge on their left shoulder, it means British casualties, and if they salute, it means American casualties.
Heavy casualties were reported (ie It was reported that many people had been killed) in the fighting.
The quake swayed buildings in Taipei, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami alert was issued.
The extra space allows for more room to maneuver and decreases the density of friendly forces, which in turn increases the security of the unit by making it harder for an enemy to inflict large casualties via a sudden ambush or explosive trap.
No casualties have been reported in the city so far.
UN issued report dated Sept 20, 2006 stating that Iraqi civilian casualties have been significantly under-reported.
Although the Fukushima accident is now rated at the same level as the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, in terms of casualties and effects on the environment, it is far less significant.
There were no reports on casualties.
Fortunately, the Dark Lord had ordered Bellatrix to go with her; and Bella inflicted numerous casualties on our enemies.
"It was discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming; by 1940, Howard Walter Florey, Ernst Boris Chain, and others had produced commercial quantities that proved vital to the treatment of war casualties, making penicillin the first successful antibiotic for human bacterial infections."
The destructive earthquakes mentioned in this Law refer to earthquakes that cause casualties and property losses.
American casualties in Iraq have, blessedly, subsided.
Huhne fought against it as the 10mph increase will see cars use more fuel and so increase pollution. Lansley's department raised concerns it will see a rise in road casualties.
The risk management of forest fires is one of the important measures and methods for fire fighters to prevent, reduce and control the casualties.
Israel has balked at launching all-out urban warfare in Gaza City, where Hamas militants are more familiar with the lay of the land and Israeli casualties would be liable to spiral.
They have been accused of dressing up their own dead fighters to look like civilian casualties.
Some 75% of British military casualties in Afghanistan have been army personnel.
