Sentence examples for severe casualty from inspiring English sources

The study by Lord Toby Harris says that a major terrorist attack could inflict a severe casualty toll on London, and makes 127 recommendations to limit the chances of violent jihadis striking, and to deal with the aftermath of a catastrophic attack.

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake caused severe casualty and building damage.

On April 15 , 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, was struck by a large earthquake sequence, leading to severe casualty and building damage.

In a study of the value of a statistical life in the road traffic sector, Persson et al. [ 6] estimated the value of a statistical life in 1999 prices at 20 million Swedish crown (SEK), that of a severe casualty at 3.3 million SEK, and that of a minor casualty at about 0.3 million SEK.

Once the Abbasids, secure in their success, "had already laid down their arms and settled in their quarters", Sa'd al-Aysar's men attacked and routed them, inflicting severe casualties and killing several senior commanders.

All suffered serious economic dislocation, and the mass mobilization resulted in severe casualties, particularly for Serbia.

At Franklin, Hood was checked for a day with severe casualties by a Federal holding force under John M. Schofield.

Shortly after he became governor, he threatened "severe casualties" if lawmakers did not agree to put his measures on the ballot.

But a surprise attack on American and British forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg in December, the Battle of the Bulge, halted their advance and inflicted severe casualties.

By the afternoon, patients had to lay on mattresses in the hospital's parking lot for lack of beds three major head injuries and one critical case of respiratory failure were the most severe casualties from Sunday's events.

During World War II, at a time when the Navy was suffering its most severe casualties from kamikaze attacks on Okinawa, Howard volunteered to join the Navy at the age of 17.