Sentence examples for appalling losses from inspiring English sources
Hochschild's stirring account concentrates on the appalling losses in the ranks and on the extraordinary courage of the dissenters.
Vang Pao later admitted that his Hmong soldiers suffered appalling losses fighting around the Plain of Jars, in Xieng Khouang province.
He stays loyal to this method in "To End All Wars," concentrating on the appalling losses suffered by the rank and file and the extraordinary courage of those who decided that the war was not a just one.
No serious scholar can deny the appalling losses suffered by the Armenians during the 1915 genocide, following the systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of them throughout eastern Anatolia in the 1890s.
By characterizing the Civil War as a national expiation for the sin of slavery, he wanted "to bind up the nation's wounds" and make some moral sense of the appalling losses on both sides.
Even the bitter experiences of appalling losses in the Crimean, Franco-German, and South African (Boer) wars failed to lessen an ardour for the theory of the offensive that was so fervent as to leave little concern for defensive tactics in the field.
By then partition had begun to tarnish freedom with appalling loss of life.
On February 26 the Glenart Castle was sunk in the Bristol Channel, with appalling loss of life.
Decent, fair-minded people, horrified at the appalling loss of life in Gaza (if not Hamas rockets), join these demonstrations.
On behalf of the UC Berkeley community I want to express our deep sadness and profound outrage over the appalling loss of innocent lives in Orlando.
He told the Guardian it was vital the world never forget the appalling loss of life suffered in the attacks.
