casualty Betydning & definition

Eksempler på casualty

• First, there was the ' hard news ' of the war : troop movements, casualties, rumours of a peace settlement.

• The partisans preached resistance at any cost, even if it meant v including heavy civilian casualties.

• Government casualties were 37,176 (27 per cent) and the insurgents may have been as high as 15,000 (58 per cent).

• Indeed, pitched battle was shunned, for its natural corollary of heavy casualties demoralized the followers of any leader who employed such tactics.

• Indeed, there were to be a good many more casualties.

• Up-country traders and porters were makers of their own destiny, and were not hapless casualties of change.

• Children who encounter such hazards are at increased risk for becoming developmental casualties, in part because adaptive development depends so heavily on a facilitating environment.

• The casualties are the students seeking to enter these specialties, or professionals seeking further education.