Sentence examples for inflict collateral damage from inspiring English sources

Rockets inflict collateral damage.

Ireland is too small for its economic troubles to pull down other countries much but Spain's economy has enough heft to inflict collateral damage (see article).

We may wish that Isabel, with her experience on the front lines, had found a human time bomb less likely to inflict collateral damage on the innocent.

The solutions offered by the legislation, however, threaten to inflict collateral damage on democratic discourse and dissent both at home and around the world.

If President Ahmadinejad fails them, he too will eventually have to go and his failure may inflict collateral damage on the supreme leader and the conservative establishment that backed him.

Therefore, an over-expressed or misdirected inflammation may also inflict collateral damage to the host, and there is now extensive evidence showing that the cost of infection may be due to inflammatory-borne damage more than to a direct effect of the pathogen [17], [18].

Striking one would help an athlete vent frustration without inflicting collateral damage.

There is also no question that the sanctions inflicted collateral damage on people who were never supposed to be targets.

And it has meanwhile inflicted collateral damage, not least on the very institutions in which Mr Chirac says he believes.

Central banks can step in by raising interest rates to kill the boom but that inflicts collateral damage on the rest of the economy, which may be blameless.

Ellen Pikitch, executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science in Miami, said: "This is the first published field experiment to demonstrate that the loss of sharks is cascading through ocean ecosystems and inflicting collateral damage on food fisheries such as scallops.