Sentence examples for heavy collateral from inspiring English sources

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The United States had picked up his trail, but had to use "tactical patience," a senior Pentagon official told me, to avoid heavy collateral damage.

Although that decision led to the prosecution of a wanted felon, the success was accomplished at the cost of heavy collateral damage.

Directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee, from Stephen Susco's adaptation of a novel by Jack Ketchum, it imagines a world in which good and evil are clear-cut, and absolute justice is worth pursuing despite heavy collateral damage.

If instead the victor is Syriza, the left-of-centre group bent on scrapping the deal, the markets fear that this will lead ineluctably to Greece leaving the euro and inflicting heavy collateral damage on the rest of the euro zone on the way.

His 'War on Drugs' in 2003 was popular, but was stained by what appeared to be extra-judicial killings and heavy collateral damage.

That means 10percentt adult black men may face the heavy collateral consequences of those convictions: bans from federal public housing, reduced employment prospects, disenfranchisement, and ineligibility from poverty programs designed to provide a safety net and which, in their absence, only reinforce poverty and deprivation.

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If the first casualty of war is truth, then language itself sustains the heaviest collateral damage, as Orwell used to point out (before "collateral damage" proved his point by entering the vocabulary of poisonous euphemism).

But it, too, faced heavy losses on investments, including loan collateral from Lehman Brothers.

In some cases, even where credit is available, the entrepreneur may lack freedom of choice because the lending conditions may force the purchase of heavy, immovable equipment that can serve as collateral for the loan.

"The furthest the government has gone is to commit to no heavy weaponry and to minimize what they call collateral damage, mainly the damage to civilians".

He had an unobstructed view of the defunct bridge and could see, perched on the easternmost of the two remaining trusses, a crane truck and other heavy equipment, which were apparently going to be collateral damage.

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