Sentence examples for widespread casualties from inspiring English sources
They also argue that it is easier for them to run away and hide from security forces in houses, shops, or dark, narrow alleys, and that the smaller numbers, dispersing quickly, help avoid widespread casualties and arrests.
That made the baby, Siraj Najib Mohamed Suessi, the first specific and credible civilian death from the airstrikes that the Qaddafi government has presented in 10 days of official statements decrying what they say are widespread casualties.
"Municipal water supplies are very difficult to contaminate to cause widespread casualties," Frederick R. Sidell, William C. Patrick III and Thomas R. Dashiell wrote in "Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook," a 1998 reference used by the police, doctors and firefighters.
The Tohoku quake generated a large tsunami resulting in widespread casualties and destruction along the coast of Japan.
The United Nations says the Syrian air force uses helicopters extensively to drop barrel bombs - improvised munitions - in indiscriminate attacks that cause widespread casualties in residential areas.
Severe damage was reported across southern Mexico, particularly Oaxaca state, and western Guatemala, but the region was spared complete catastrophic destruction and there were no reports of widespread casualties.
The claims of widespread civilian casualties were impossible to verify.
The frame of reference, again, is 1991, when American bombing caused widespread civilian casualties.
In recent days, however, the number of people seeking safety has soared again amid reports of widespread civilian casualties.
Russian forces seized the rebel capital at the beginning of February after weeks of relentless bombardment and fierce street clashes that reportedly caused widespread civilian casualties.
Are widespread civilian casualties inevitable when a modern army pounds terrorist targets in a heavily populated area with purportedly smart ordnance?
