Sentence examples for killed upwards from inspiring English sources

Anger was fuelled by a renewed assault on the city of Homs by security forces overnight which is thought to have killed upwards of 240 people in the bloodiest day of the 11-month crackdown.

The problem will be exacerbated by the country's crippled state since the Jan . 12earthquake, which killed upwards of 250,000 people and left one million homeless, living in squalid tent encampments.

Across the Leyte Gulf from the Filipino city of Tacloban, where Typhoon Haiyan killed upwards of 10,000 people, lies the island of Eastern Samar.

In mid May we returned from our second trip to Haiti, four months after the January 12 earthquake that killed upwards of 300,000 and left 1.2 million homeless.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Friday that killed upwards of 20 people.

It is not news that Corail-Cesselesse is not safe, but it should be news that there are at least 1.5 million victims of the January 2010 earthquake that killed upwards of 300,000 still living under tarps in other camps.

JON LEE ANDERSON: To compare Haiti's disaster to Chile's is in the first case, misleading: Haiti's was on an unparalleled scale, killing upwards of 300,000 people; Chile's earthquake killed, if I recall, a thousand or so and hit hardest in small towns south of the capital, Santiago.

In one paper, in the 2009 Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics, Dauphiné and co-author Robert J. Cooper, a wildlife biologist at the University of Georgia in Athens, argue that feral cats kill upwards of 1 billion birds in the United States every year.

Meanwhile, humans kill upwards of 100 million sharks each year.

Avoidable errors in hospitals kill upwards of 500 people a day, making it equivalent to the third leading cause of death in the United States.

Attempting to instigate the end of the world artificially, the Rooster faction began to develop a lethal virus; in 1998 they released this virus in the Pacific Northwest, killing upwards of seventy people before the outbreak was contained.