Too often, perfectly normal bodies are maimed and the souls and the families connected with those bodies are changed forever.
All day Tuesday, the news focused on the gruesome details of the crime scene and those who were lost or maimed.
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All of that risk-laden industrial progress in the early 20th century led to unprecedented affluence for those not killed, maimed or sickened.
Mountain gorillas are not frequently hunted for their meat, but can be maimed or killed by poachers leaving traps or snares for other animals.
Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined nations in the world, with hundreds of people killed or maimed every year by the devices.
When Anthony Marshall landed on Iwo Jima in 1945, half his platoon was mowed down, others were maimed and the 20-year-old lieutenant was wounded in the foot.
But Krumholz's speech drew applause, and accounts of it in the media don't do it justice. (See "The Speech That Maimed Schering And Merck").
We might go ahead and dodge this weekend's crispy beef kabob, only to be quietly maimed by a dash of aflatoxin in our organic peanut butter.
In your New Year's message, you spoke about the very, very large number of British soldiers, service people who have died out there already or been maimed.
The Ulster Unionist MP, Jeffrey Donaldson, said relatives of victims killed or maimed by paramilitaries feel deeply frustrated because violence was continuing and there had been no decommissioning of illegal weapons.
Thousands of people, most of them women and children, are maimed or killed every year by land mines, long after the fighting has stopped in such countries as Bosnia, Cambodia and Angola.
Exactly how many people this war has maimed is not known, but the head of the paralympics committee estimates there are some three million disabled people throughout this country of 27 million.
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As Foulkrod shifts from one vet to another, some of them maimed for life, there are moving bits of testimony, but we may balk at the abrupt editing, which leaves anecdotes and emotions hanging.
The German campaign was traumatic for everyone, but particularly so for the older children, as we saw people we had known all our young lives, killed, burned, maimed and buried in the rubble of nearby houses.
Nobody terribly important died or was maimed.
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Hence, the Unabomber -- who killed three people and maimed and mutilated more than a score of others -- was treated with morbid curiosity by the press, as if he were a sideshow freak instead of a wicked, willful murderer who deserved to be put to death.
Thirty million dollars is a lot of money, but how do you divide it among the families of the three people killed, the dozens maimed, the hundreds who spent time in the hospital, the thousands who witnessed the blasts at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last month?
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