Sentence examples for minimize collateral harm from inspiring English sources

Speaking by telephone from Cambridge, Mass., where he is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School this semester, Professor Halbertal added: "These have to do with to what degree soldiers assume risks in order to minimize collateral harm to civilians.

The U.S. and Iraqi strategy in Mosul has relied on precision-guided munitions to minimize collateral damage.

Although the capability to minimize collateral damage was praised at the time, the technology was highly inaccurate.

The bomb, which is very accurate, has a small explosive, as little as 60 to 80 pounds, to minimize collateral damage in an urban area.

Mr. Karzai watched jets take off from the flight deck and was briefed on how the pilots try to minimize "collateral damage".

To minimize collateral damage, technicians manually inserted blocks and filters, a task later taken over by computers.

There is also the unresolved issue of how to minimize collateral damage — like making sure malware does not cripple a civilian hospital.

The phrasedick Fred Shapiro at Yale tracked it back in its current sense to a 1961 usage by Thomas Schelling in Operations Research magazine: "Measures to locate and design our strategic forces so as to minimize collateral damage".

When the military first started to use the rather unfortunate term, it did so in what was actually an attempt to minimize "collateral damage".

Like in the military's lethal drone program, "they are also trying to minimize collateral damage here.

This relies on precise beam alignment with the targeted area, in order to maximize treatment efficacy and minimize collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue.