Sentence examples for missing dead from inspiring English sources

While seeking to enhance their custodial role, federal officials are now pressing the question of the missing dead.

The debate about the disinterment of the mass graves of the missing dead from the Spanish civil war is a major issue in Spain today – more than at any time since Franco's death in 1975.

The driving force behind this search for the missing dead is the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), founded in 1996 on the basis of an initiative by President Bill Clinton.

V The missing dead Don DeLillo's novel has a group of New York children who for weeks after the attacks stare out of the windows up at the sky, on the look-out for aircraft and a man they call Bill Lawton, their confused or euphemistically familiar name for Bin Laden.

More important was his insistence that the names of the missing dead be inscribed on memorials as near as possible to where they were thought to have fallen, rather than the cheaper alternative of listing them by regiment without any regard to necro‑geography.

Ware succeeded not only in keeping all bodies for his new cemeteries but also in establishing the equality of commemoration: all tombstones were identical, all the epitaphs were the same except for short and carefully monitored lines that relatives could add at their own expense, all the names on the memorials to the missing dead were the same size, all subjects of the empire were included.

There's lots of ways we can miss dead turtles".

It's missing, presumed dead.

Many others are missing, presumed dead.

There were further numbers "missing, presumed dead.

Five other people were missing, presumed dead.