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Collateral damage.
Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.
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Such particles can be tailored to release their payloads only when the surrounding environment indicates that they are near a tumour, thus reducing collateral damage.
Such developments, along with the pinpoint accuracy of missiles on a modern aeroplane, could help save lives by reducing collateral damage.
In December 2014 it successfully test fired "smart" Excalibur artillery rounds touted for saving lives, reducing collateral damage and pinpoint marksmanship.
This is key to reducing collateral damage, or cell death in surrounding tissue, during surgical procedures.
Our policy has been to attempt the most selective cannulation of the hepatic artery possible, with the goal of reducing collateral damage to normal liver.
Shedding of E-selectin has thus been proposed to limit leukocyte endothelial interactions both by decreasing the cell surface density on the endothelium and by generating an intravascular competitive inhibitor or decoy ligand (that is, sE-selectin) for leukocytes, thereby reducing collateral damage in the host [ 18].
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Advocates say that relatively small nuclear weapons that burrowed deep into the ground to destroy enemy bunkers would cause reduced collateral damage -- that is, less accidental destruction beyond the intended target.
At the same time, note how these superheroes take great care to reduce collateral damage at their battles, risking their own lives to evacuate and save innocent civilians, in a fantasy of perfected warfare.
David Cameron claimed that Britain had military assets that would make Coalition airstrikes more effective including a precision missile system which reduced collateral damage allowing more Isis sites to be targeted within civilian areas.
Smaller blasts and fewer misses reduce collateral damage.
However, suspected militants are generally targeted while in sparsely populated areas, often while traveling, which appears to be a conscious effort to reduce collateral damage.
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