A disaster is a large scale casualty event that has been designated a disaster area by the president.
official, said at a House hearing in October 1999, "they are difficult to process into a lethal form and successfully deliver to achieve large-scale casualties".
The letter calls on David Cameron to look for "political solutions" and points out that wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya show that "western military interventions lead to large-scale casualties, devastating destruction and huge flows of refugees".
As curfew fell, the details of how the siege ended and how many people might have been injured remained unclear, though there were no reports of large-scale casualties.
During the 115-day trial, prosecutors accused the group, led by an Algerian-born Muslim cleric, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, of plotting to use weapons and explosives to attack sites including the cricket ground and railway stations with the intention of causing large-scale casualties.
The blast at the Erawan Shrine was unprecedented in the Thai capital, where smaller bombs have been employed in domestic political violence over the past decade, but not in an effort to cause large-scale casualties.
The Watchtower project is established to give data on a large scale basis about contacts to casualty clinics in Norway, and can thus be useful for national statistics, research, and also system improvements.
But in such large-scale wars, casualties have become higher both in terms of absolute numbers and relative to population.
Even Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, learned not to rely on attacks that blatantly conflict with international standards of behavior by causing large-scale civilian casualties.
Obama said that the intervention "averted large-scale civilian casualties" but made clear he felt Europe had not been sufficiently committed to helping sort out the country.
