Sentence examples for avoiding casualties from inspiring English sources
"Forget about avoiding casualties," said John Keegan, the British military historian.
The navy has been instructed to prevent the convoy from entering Gaza's territorial waters while avoiding casualties.
Dazzled by technology and obsessed with avoiding casualties of their own, the allies seem unable even to hurt, let alone destroy, Serbia's army.
Israeli military officials have confirmed that preparations are under way to stop any new flotilla while avoiding casualties, and that they would use different tactics this time.
"There's still a lot of doubt about how these Iraqis are going to perform in protecting themselves and avoiding casualties to noncombatants," an American official said.
But officers say that they were careful about avoiding casualties in Gwoza, where many people suspected the rebels were holding the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in the town of Chibok last year.
"We never said we would avoid casualties.
Almost all are targeted when empty to avoid casualties.
Other analysts said the government seemed to be favoring standoff techniques, like using the helicopters in Aleppo, to avoid casualties.
They calculated that this would avoid casualties to the British civilian population and to the British forces.
The effort to avoid casualties has been so huge they've managed to keep the number of children they bombed on a beach down to four.
