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First, there was the ' hard news ' of the war : troop movements, casualties, rumours of a peace settlement.
The partisans preached resistance at any cost, even if it meant v including heavy civilian casualties.
Government casualties were 37,176 (27 per cent) and the insurgents may have been as high as 15,000 (58 per cent).
Indeed, pitched battle was shunned, for its natural corollary of heavy casualties demoralized the followers of any leader who employed such tactics.
Indeed, there were to be a good many more casualties.
Up-country traders and porters were makers of their own destiny, and were not hapless casualties of change.
Children who encounter such hazards are at increased risk for becoming developmental casualties, in part because adaptive development depends so heavily on a facilitating environment.
The casualties are the students seeking to enter these specialties, or professionals seeking further education.
The older driver: measures for reducing the number of casualties among older people on our roads.
The article will argue that care work and unpaid care workers are both casualties of these developments.
Sanitary screenings of farm-reared birds should preferably include some complete necropsies, for example of casualties, rather than rely exclusively on non-invasive sampling.
All of this is even more important when the role of casualties is addressed.
Unconfirmed reports put noncombatant casualties at up to 100 people.
No blood is seen; no screaming is heard; casualties are faceless.
To sum up: there were no casualties on the expedition and it did what it set out to do and, moreover, did so within budget.
The war has dragged on for months, leading to an increase in casualties and costs.
Most of the casualties were from the old stock.
Both peoples are identified as the casualties of war and both wars are viewed from the victims' perspective.
One of the casualties of this hurry was the paragraphing.
However, the result may then be large discrepancies in valuation, of casualties in that region is mpi.
Even in death, military and civilian casualties were accorded different treatment.
Nevertheless, several authors, backed up by various media sources, have suggested that the number of casualties was as high as 300, even 400.
As the con-ict continued, and civilian casualties mounted, strains within the government increased almost to the breaking point.
The impact on support of the interaction between casualties and countries on support is mixed.
The appendix includes all the attacks, locations, target(s), total casualties, and claims of responsibility to date.
Either the number of casualties clearly exceeded 1,000 or it was clearly lower.
The criterion of 1,000 casualties is somewhat arbitrary.
Since 1945, runs one statistic, 90 per cent of war's casualties have been civilians.
Note that these are official and thus probably rather conservative estimates; the actual number of casualties may have been much higher.
The resulting amalgam was to be extremely influential: but it can now be seen that the process was also not without its casualties.
The remaining 13% had other causes, including accident, war-related casualties and old age.
After suffering only light damage and no casualties, they proceed towards the bridge.
Wars create casualties, but they also establish gender-based distinctions between home and front line.
With casualties escalating, enthusiasm for the war was fast fading.
In this situation, the official militia successfully fought off the white insurrectionists while taking few casualties.
The number of casualties was 1,416, of which 757 died and 213 were seriously injured.
Psychological casualties had to be coerced back into combat.
There were many casualties of the armed struggle, many categories of dispossessed, many with little or no stake in the moral and institutional ' liberation system ' created by military victory.
My contention is that "accident" made possible a compromise formula which allowed industrial capitalism to accept responsibility for its casualties without having to admit its responsibility in producing those casualties.
In the subsequent report, to the extent that civilian casualties were acknowledged, they were asserted to have been small-scale and accidental, primarily the result of long-range artillery fire.
Both sides had heavy casualties.
Recently, much attention has been given to a potentially upcoming influenza pandemic that may result in large numbers of casualties, especially among those with high-risk medical conditions [3].
One of the problems in this is a very wide spread of estimates of the casualties in a particular war, making any precise estimate very suspect.
While the increased harmonisation of service delivery and standards is designed to improve the quality of services delivered to service users, re-organisation has not been without its casualties.
Estimates of the casualties are again confusing.
There was little systematic research about the effect of new crossings or safety campaigns on reducing road casualties, which might have fed into the formulation of subsequent policy.
As mentioned in this paper, most of the conflicts on the international stage are internal or civil wars, which have brought about more civilian casualties than before.
The different national impacts cancel each other out, and this then depresses the average overall impact of casualties on support, making the bivariate impact of casualties on support statistically insignificant.
While the soldier retained his prominence, the civilian population entered a process of victimisation caused by restrictions and hardships and, above all, by soaring casualties and the subsequent grief.
However, an increased risk of death from the point of view of the individual translates into a higher number of casualties from the point of view of society.
Private forces can start up and deploy faster than multinational (and perhaps national) forces, and may carry less political baggage, especially concerning casualties, than government militaries.
Most of the activities of local women groups are unsung, except when they become extensive or occupy important oil facilities, or when there are casualties from their actions.
Of the total casualties 43 % were diagnosed as suffering from just psychological problems and a further 27 % had mistakenly injected themselves with atropine (an antidote to gas poisoning).
We have no information on casualties sustained in these attacks.
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The 1996 fire statistics reveal a worrying continuation of the upward trend in fires, deaths and casualties in the home.
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Will he remember the casualties of the past?
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Information regarding seat belt use by casualties in heavy goods vehicles or commercial vehicles is not available.
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Information on passenger casualties in light goods vehicles is given in the table.
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Children were among the first casualties in the war.
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In the event of a future war, there are likely to be heavy casualties.
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Would the statement include the number of casualties?
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As for the events that occurred overnight, we take every single precaution that we possibly and reasonably can to prevent civilian casualties.
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We will make every effort to avoid civilian casualties.
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Are they prepared to accept the considerable casualties and the damage that the action would do to them?
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None of us should underestimate the risk of casualties on either side.
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We make every attempt possible to minimise civilian casualties, but in actions such as this there will be civilian casualties.
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Without agreement, there would be many casualties, and for what?
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I am aware that the number of road accident casualties is a matter of great concern to a great many people.
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Around 2,000 animals a week, mostly on-farm casualties, are directly incinerated in appropriately authorised incinerators.
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One of the casualties of the privatisation and deregulation of the bus industry was continuity of investment.
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Probably rightly, we are reluctant to suffer casualties in pursuit of peacemaking, even if we will take the much lower risks involved in peacekeeping.
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As in all wars, there were no winners, just casualties.
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Had it not been for the international humanitarian effort, there would undoubtedly have been many more casualties among the refugees over the past month.
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They will need, wherever they are, the facilities and equipment to do their essential work of operating and caring for the casualties below ground.
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Another important point is the question of casualties, which the farming community view with considerable concern.
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I am not going into the great number of casualties.
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Nevertheless, of course, casualties are still too great.
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Our plans envisage that all 14 regions, and at regional discretion a number of hospitals within each region, should share in the treatment of casualties.
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Why, instead, are we having an auction, a competition between civilian patients and possible military casualties?
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The number of casualties which might result from any military action could vary considerably depending on a wide range of factors.
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Contingency plans for the treatment and evacuation of casualties in the event of hostilities continue to be developed.
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I shall now review progress towards developing measures to achieve the targeted reduction in road casualties of one third by the year 2000.
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Wearing rear seat belts will also reduce casualties among front seat passengers in the event of a crash.
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All the regions are prepared to receive casualties.
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They view their actions in much the same way as military leaders view war casualties - as a price to be paid.
British authorities kept the exact figures about casualties secret, and even after the war satisfactory statistics were never published.
The tactics of firepower did not necessarily reduce casualties, or imply any absence of a desire to win.
There are no definitive statistics on the casualties of the war, but the figure of three to five million deaths is certainly not an exaggeration.
Moreover, there is no record of staff ever being taken hostage or of their featuring as anything but indirect casualties of inmate aggression.
The processes of empire, industrialization, and globalization have made casualties out of indigenous languages and cultures.
One of the most important casualties was ahimsa.
Tourist receipts are volatile, for holidays are usually one of the first casualties of reduced family expenditure during a recession.
The words of caution should be strictly followed as there have been a number of casualties among tourists in the summit area.
The casualties and media coverage generated serious pressure on the local authorities, including the provincial government.
The central government may also intervene because the scale of resistance is too large to ignore and the resistance involves casualties.
The purpose of the course was to give them rudimentary tools of diagnosis and treatment for battle casualties.
The attacks lasted for 78 days in spring 1999 and resulted in civilian casualties.
There are casualties and losses on either side - and more often than not, the brunt of these deaths fall to our opponents.
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