Sentence examples for little collateral damage from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Collateral damage.

Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.

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When insurers falter, they quietly run down their books with little collateral damage.

Managing Steven Gerrard wasn't so much a footballing challenge but a matter of overseeing, with as little collateral damage as possible, an epic, slow-burn sentimental goodbye.

"A trained mediator can't decide what is best, but he or she can make sure that everyone is heard and seek a resolution with as little collateral damage as possible".

As cold war operations go, this was one of the good ones: relatively little collateral damage; support for literature; international fame for the main protagonist, who thought his work deserved it; and, for the Soviet intelligentsia, a perhaps salutary lesson that, thaw or not, the old Stalinist traditions of scapegoating and collective persecution had still to be overcome.

If today's weapons really are as microsurgically precise as we have been told they are, perhaps we will see that it's possible to conduct a war with little collateral damage, and perhaps we will be less likely in the future to question those who get us into wars.

A total of three people and more than 100 were injured in the two Louisiana blasts but there was apparently little collateral damage to the surrounding neighborhoods.

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But the effect of this is that Isis is able for the most part to avoid presenting its enemies with unequivocally military targets in places where there is little risk of collateral damage.

Because while refugees can suffer like anyone else, they can't vote, and that makes them little more than collateral damage as Kenya's notoriously cynical electioneering gets under way.

These lasers can precisely ablate various types of materials with little or no collateral damage.

The practical implications of our results are that suitable improved protein candidates generated through in vitro protein optimization technologies can be selected using significantly fewer rounds of mutagenesis and selection, and with little or no collateral damage to the protein or its mRNA.

The practical implications of our results are that suitable improved protein candidates can be recovered from in vitro protein evolution approaches using significantly fewer rounds of mutagenesis and selection, and with little or no collateral damage to the protein or its mRNA.

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