Sentence examples for merely collateral from inspiring English sources

Mr. McVeigh's idea that the death of innocents was merely "collateral damage" was the militias' collective undoing.

As opposed to our own Western humanity, of course: we can kill thousands without a trial – and then claim our innocence because the damage to their shredded bodies is merely "collateral".

Any uncertainty and upset caused to pupils or parents involved with existing free schools is merely collateral damage in the great game of coalition, as ministers battle to keep hold of their chauffeur-driven cars and other perks of office.

The recent killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, along with three other Americans at the mission in Benghazi, now appears to have been a premeditated assault, not merely collateral damage from yet another anti-American protest.

In the debate over whether the foreclosed are deadbeats or victims, co-conspirators with the avaricious banks or merely collateral damage, the agent nearly always takes the benign view.

But because Rwandan culture discourages women from talking about sexual matters -- and also because the idea that rape was merely "collateral damage" remained ingrained in the judicial community -- the prosecutors in Arusha did not initially connect the dots between rape and the Hutus' genocide blueprint.

We are just collateral damage".

The children are just collateral. .

Teddy Roosevelt is just collateral damage.

Is this simply collateral damage?

It said his right to effective assistance of counsel did not apply because deportation was merely a "collateral" consequence of his conviction.