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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
It'd be collateral damage that the military often doesn't want to talk about.
Up to now their counter-terrorism policy has been to kill insurgents at almost any cost, and if civilians get in the way, that's written as "collateral damage."
You have to say, imagine you were in Iran, and imagine that your relatives all suffered from collateral damage even though they had done no wrong.
Diets may seem harmless, but they actually do a lot of collateral damage.
The collateral damage of suicide affects so many people.
And I'd like to do a little collateral thinking, if you will, about compassion and bring it from the global level to the personal.
They are collateral damage.
Until the beginning of the civil war in Somalia in the late '80s, humanitarian aid workers were sometimes victims of what we call collateral damages, but by and large we were not the target of these attacks.
And because Jenipher doesn't have collateral or a credit history, she can't walk into a bank and ask for a business loan.
The problem is their enforcement mechanisms are a complete black box, and there is collateral damage.
It's unclear whether Facebook even knows the extent of the collateral damage, or the other companies as well.
It's not just about avoiding collateral damage; it's about winning the peace.
Our instincts tell us that deliberately causing someone's death is different than allowing them to die as collateral damage.
HB: Therefore, an army of content moderators sit in front of a screen to avoid new collateral damage.
Let's have a system where we have ownership of land that is registered in a government office, that people can pledge as collateral.
It didn't have that kind of collateral.
Eroded by globalization's collateral damages, the pessimistic vision of Europe is mutual with Chinas.
Taut, topical political thriller, taking square aim at the controversial US policy of rendition, another appalling Orwell-ian phrase (collateral damage, anyone?) for the illegal interrogation even torture of terrorist suspects by-passing due legal process.
But at the same time films shows that war is a dirty affair, where murder is sometimes condoned, wanton destruction of whole villages for little or no reason is normal, indiscriminate killing of civilians is overlooked as collateral damage inevitable during war... Some food for thought as to why Afghan war as lost..
Neither know the other is after the same man, both seeking revenge for the murder of a partner(..Crocket's partner was collateral damage when a drug dealer they were playing, having decided to go out on his own, was blown up with a bomb strapped under his truck).
Shirley's dad doesn't have the money to bet on a horse race so he puts up his daughter as collateral!
Clear and accessible ledgers that faithfully describe not only who controls what and where, but also the rules governing potential combinations – of, say, collateral, components, producers, entrepreneurs, and legal and property rights – are vital for the system to function.
Indeed, the most curious aspect of the ECB’s position was its threat not to accept restructured government bonds as collateral if the ratings agencies decided that the restructuring should be classified as a credit event.
If the bonds were acceptable as collateral before the restructuring, surely they were safer after the restructuring, and thus equally acceptable.
The incomes needed to repay loans have evaporated, and assets posted as collateral have lost value.
This is the rule set out by Walter Bagehot more than a century ago: calming the markets requires central banks to lend at a penalty rate to every distressed institution that would be able to put up reasonable collateral in normal times.
Moreover, most small-business loans are collateral-based, but the value of the most common form of collateral, real estate, has plummeted.
To Trump’s team, this is collateral damage, the inevitable price that must be paid to give America’s plutocrats more money.
But retailers such as Walmart, not just its customers, are part of the collateral damage, too.
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