Sentence examples for Secondary casualties from inspiring English sources

He says the survey ignored the occupation's indirect or secondary casualties - deaths caused by the destruction of health services, unemployment and lack of electricity.

It is difficult and dangerous for first responders to perform search and rescue in an unfamiliar environment, sometimes leading to secondary casualties.

If the occupiers often seemed oblivious to reality, one reason was that many jobs at the C.P.A. went to people whose qualifications seemed to lie mainly in their personal and political connections -- people like Simone Ledeen, whose father, Michael Ledeen, a prominent neoconservative, told a forum that "the level of casualties is secondary" because "we are a warlike people" and "we love war".

Will there be a secondary event to maximize casualties and terror?

The Nassau-class ships took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May and 1 June 1916 as the II Battle Squadron; they suffered only a handful of secondary battery hits and limited casualties.

A significant number of accident casualties result from a secondary impact that follows an initial accident and the new system brakes the car in order to lessen the risks involved.

Limited information is available about the hospital-acquired secondary infections despite that adequate hygiene in mass casualty situations is problematic (15).

Although secondary contamination may be prevented by mass decontamination of casualties, the authors note that decontamination capabilities are limited at many, if not most, medical facilities throughout the world.

The high number of casualties in Kobe is attributed to earthquake-triggered secondary events such as fire and explosions.

Secondary explosive devices are bombs that are placed to cause casualties among emergency personnel responding to incidents.

It has also emerged as a threat to casualties of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the secondary problem that strains introduced to hospitals by military personnel can cause cross infection of staff and patients [ 4- 9].