They were just early casualties of a war that would cost 100, 000 lives.
The porousness of our borders is an open invitation to terrorists and our continuing failure to secure them will, in due course, make possible not just "mass casualties, " but possibly national calamity.
"We've started wishing some casualties die just to limit their suffering, " the doctor said.
But if it can be weathered with relatively few casualties, it might just as easily end up demonstrating that the innovations of recent years have made the financial system more, not less, robust.
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Right now, the United States has the upper hand in this game of security, although it may not seem like that by just looking at the number of casualties every day, simply because the enemy has been obligated to use the last single remaining effective tool in his military toolbox, and that's the suicide bomber.
That brings the total number of US casualties since the 2003 invasion to just over 4, 300.
Even since filming that interview, just weeks ago, the Green Howards have suffered casualties.
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You saw in his face, you heard in his voice, you could tell from the words just how anxious they are in Whitehall about further casualties.
"It has caused very little destruction here, with just a few palm thatched huts damaged and no casualties being reported from anywhere, " Malik Ferozekhan, the District Collector in the port of Tuticorin told Reuters new agency.
The industry has been able to hold on to physical sales for longer than seemed likely, but now digital downloads are gradually taking over, and, just as in the music business, that is leaving casualties behind.
The Special Forces were under fire for just over an hour, King said, and suffered no casualties.
There are also some casualties but we simply do not have a grip on just how many there are.
And because of high rates of attrition (casualties and retirement, but mainly protracted absence without leave), just maintaining those numbers requires constant effort.
The Lions were already two casualties down by then, tight-head Murray departing with an ankle injury after just seven minutes and Hook following five minutes later after a lengthy period of treatment for a neck problem.
It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.
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