Sentence examples for accept casualties from inspiring English sources

With the public increasingly loath to accept casualties, such suppression of enemy air defense is important.

Behind a world-weary façade, the French support their soldiers, revile terrorism and accept casualties if the mission is seen as just and achievable.

Unless the West is ready to use ground troops, and accept casualties, it may have to settle for a partial victory, which is a way of saying a partial defeat.

American voters, and some American defence secretaries, are more reluctant than they used to be to risk their servicemen's lives in a fight; some of America's allies, if not all of them, are still a bit readier to accept casualties.

Today's military recruiters, he said, grasp what the ancient Greeks understood -- "that nobody'll accept casualties unless the elite are willing to put their own children's lives on the line".

The paradox of Powell's career is that he opposed the one war that satisfied his own stringent terms, arguing that we would suffer hundreds or even thousands of deaths in Iraq, and that the American people would never accept casualties to keep the price of oil down.

The Ethiopians, in particular, said one military observer, "have been prepared to accept casualty figures that are usually regarded as unacceptable in modern warfare".Eritrea's defences on the Badme front had been thought impenetrable: the Ethiopian forces would find themselves running into a brick wall.

One has to think about accepting casualties.

With the war in stalemate and Americans becoming less tolerant of accepting casualties, General Giap told a European interviewer, South Vietnam "is for the Americans a bottomless pit".

In Iraq, there have been more deaths of men and women between 25 and 30 than of those younger than 22. William Hammond, a Vietnam historian of the Army, said that how the public viewed the war was closely tied to whether it accepted casualties.

As the memories of September 11th 2001 fade, so does tolerance for American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.Ivaylo IvanovSalt Lake CitySIR – Americans will indeed accept heavy casualties to prevent another September 11th.