Sentence examples for casualty avoided from inspiring English sources

The Swedish Road Administration SRAA) has adopted the Willingness To Pay (WTP) concept [8, 14] when estimating Society's marginal benefit for every casualty avoided.

Since 1854, when state-sponsored meteorology was born, weather forecasting has always been recognised as a valuable business one dollar invested in meteorology is said to yield about $15 in terms of casualties avoided, harvests saved and so on.

"Precision is required when operating amongst populations, such as Afghanistan, where targets must be positively identified and civilian casualties avoided at all costs," he said.

Greater casualties were avoided only because the bombers had put water in the tanker, forcing the blast downward.

The British government claims its advisers are working with the Saudi airforce to make sure that civilian casualties are avoided.

More casualties were avoided because the attack took place just after 4am, when the normally busy route into one of Libya's few functioning ports was relatively quiet.

Mass casualties were avoided owing to a combination of building evacuations prompted by the weaker shock and an epicentre removed from populous areas.

Because bombs are no longer 'blind', provided they are used properly, and civilian casualties can be avoided.

In such a scenario, human casualties should be avoided, although material destruction is inevitable, on condition that the population closely follows the planned evacuation procedures.

In that capacity, they were kept well behind the crest of the ridge and avoided casualties during the opening French bombardment.

But the protests and the casualties might have been avoided if credible peace negotiations were under way.