Sentence examples for left unexploded from inspiring English sources

"I choose to go on".TODAY Lebanon is relatively peaceful, but a 15-year civil war and conflicts with neighbours such as Israel have left unexploded land mines and cluster munitions across swathes of the tiny country.

It was not clear Saturday whether experts had succeeded in disarming a bomb that the official said had been left unexploded.

Up to 4 million cluster submunitions were dropped in Lebanon by Israel in 2006, meaning as many as 1.2 million may have been left unexploded.

Some 270 million cluster bombs were dropped on Laos in the 1960s and 70s, which means there are as many as 80 million bomblets that may have been left unexploded.

Today, there are still many left unexploded in the off-limits areas.

By some calculations, he said, the American bombing campaign may have left 36,000 unexploded canisters strewn across Afghanistan's rugged landscape, an estimate that Admiral Quigley said was too high.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a telephone interview that the use of cluster bombs in Iraq also left many unexploded munitions, "littering the landscape, waiting for people to trip over them".

These are the most likely to fail, leaving deadly unexploded bomblets.

Although the work is far from finished, the foreigners are being asked to leave.Unexploded bombs maim or kill over 200 people a year, and prevent the cultivation of vast areas of land.

"I cannot see the logic of throwing bombs at the back of a police station and then leaving an unexploded one for children to pick up".

They settled for a smaller deal earlier this month that freezes taxes for most households, barely touches the deficit, and leaves several unexploded fiscal bombs to defuse.Automatic spending cuts of nearly $90 billion this year, split between defence and domestic programmes, kick in at the start of March.