At the very least, NATO hopes, some bad things will stop happening in Afghanistan, where the Taliban have grown in strength and deadliness by the year since they were toppled in 2001.
One might expect to see a marked slowdown in the worst-hit countries, given its deadliness and its concentration among people in their prime.
In India the deadliness of drivers using phones surpassed that of drunk-driving three years ago, says Harman Sidhu, head of ArriveSAFE, an Indian pressure group.
THE deadliness of a storm depends not just on its own strength but on the weaknesses of the country it hits.
For those whose aim is maximum destruction, not just maximum publicity, it is the natural choice.This special deadliness is partly the result of the suicide bomber's ability to adapt the place and time of his detonation to the last minute.
At the same time, the fact that Ebola claimed five of its authors is testament to the deadliness of the paper's subject.On June 4th, Stephen Gire, a public health researcher at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took delivery of a polystyrene box from Kenema, Sierra Leone.
At the moment, it is generally agreed that smallpox has the best mixture of transmissibility and deadliness to do the job effectively.
Head-to-head combat pales in comparison with the deadliness of the nuclear bombings by America of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which claimed 140,000 and 85,000 lives.Related items From the archive: The Allied AdvanceJul 8th 1916.
Its deadliness was linked, among other things, to the weakness of buildings, the depth of the quake, the density of population, the fault and soil types, and the intensity of the shaking.
A way has to be found to reduce the deadliness of quakes in the most vulnerable areas.Yet earthquakes cannot be predicted accurately enough to know when people should be evacuated.
Its deadliness in combat, especially at sea, has been cited as a prime reason for the long survival of the Byzantine Empire in the face of many enemies.
