Sentence examples for for collateral damage from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Collateral damage.

Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.

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"The army agreed to compensate the locals for collateral damage," the official said.

It concluded: "With your help we can limit the potential for collateral damage".

It is one thing to forgive the IRA for "collateral damage" in a national liberation struggle.

And what about compensation for collateral damage and civilians being killed in drone strikes?

Retaliatory attacks are also possible, and there is a probability for collateral damage impacting civilians and foreigners inside the country".

In the ads for "Collateral Damage," someone tells Mr. Schwarzenegger, "You can't take the law into your own hands".

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Many are deep underground; others, no doubt, are smack in the midst of population centers, guaranteeing great-for-TV "collateral damage" if air strikes occur.

What protects an outrage are disguises, circumlocutions, and euphemisms – "enhanced interrogation techniques" for torture, "collateral damage" for killing civilians, "the war on terror" for the war against you and me and our Bill of Rights.

Can they legislate in their own countries that for every collateral damage suffered because of American bombing, for every person who was tortured by the [Shah's intelligence agency] Savak, which was created by the United States, those people can claim money from the United States and go confiscate it?

Outsiders who criticize Germany for its relatively small fiscal stimulus — show little concern for the collateral damage their proposed — and what is to European eyes exaggerated — responses to the slowdown may cause.

• Not surprisingly, Dolan didn't show up yesterday, and for one day at least set up Thomas, among others, for the collateral damage in what promises to be a two- to three-week trial of juicy headlines.

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