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A total of 2,215 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan, and another 20,000 wounded, since 2001.
And the qualifications that Reagan did have on Inauguration Day eroded over time, after he was wounded in a failed assassination attempt 69 days into his presidency, and, later, when he began to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
Britain’s High Commissioner in Bangladesh was wounded in a similar bomb attack this May.
Muslims wounded by his invocation in that interview of the subservient black slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s US Civil War-era novel should accept his deepest apologies.
Rather, the electorate was expressing its indignation, despair, and wounded national pride.
Fanning the Flames of Justice in SyriaCHICAGO – Justice will be a long time coming in Syria, but it can begin with a Security Council referral of the situation in that wounded country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation and, ultimately, prosecution.
Egypt’s military-backed government has extended the state of emergency, and Iraq is witnessing a surge in sectarian violence, with more than 5,000 civilians killed and almost 14,000 wounded so far this year.
There is a hint, though, in a brief mention in the middle of the story of a father looking over his wounded sons in a hospital and declaring that, “Now Americans are shooting randomly at anything that moves.”
While the cameras were rolling, a US marine turned to an unarmed and wounded Iraqi lying on the ground and murdered the man with gunshots to the head.
In the autumn of 2008, the Minotaur was mortally wounded after running into the wall of private debt that was a by-product of its appetite.
Paradoxically, too many Syrian civilians have been tortured, wounded, and killed to stop the demonstrations seeking the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.
Serbia and Russia pose more difficult cases, as the national pride of both - for different reasons - has been wounded.
In the eyes of historians, President Jacques Chirac’s redeeming value will most probably remain his courageous attempt to reconcile France’s wounded minorities with their past and the French nation through a national process of repentance.
But many contended that men who had been wounded in battle were more deserving.
The friend is badly wounded but manages to escape;Osiev dies after being stabbed in the back.
Thousands have been wounded.
In Ukraine, more than 5,000 people have been killed, over 10,000 more have been wounded, and 1.2 million have been forced from their homes.
The FARC, now wounded and cornered, may decide that its only option is to go on the offensive in order to demonstrate its continuing relevance and remaining strength.
Wounded demonstrators are reported to have been buried alive in mass graves, and there are confirmed reports of bodies washing ashore in the waterways near Yangon (Rangoon).
That decision also played well with Russia’s wounded national pride, as it offered proof that Russia could act in its own interest, making tough decisions regardless of what the Western said.
So he must deliver on the third, or the League will be gravely wounded.
This expression of wounded national pride was enabled by South Korea's tremendous performance in the World Cup football tournament last summer, which helped convince ordinary Koreans that their country was fully grown up--and thus might be able to stand on its own without the presence of 37,000 US troops.
When Clodius happened to meet Milo along the Appian Way, a fight broke out between their guards, and Clodius was gravely wounded.
The eurozone should suppress any wounded pride, acknowledge that it needs help, and provide quickly what it has already promised.
Four years of civil war have left more than 200,000 dead, one million wounded, and 6.7 million people internally displaced.
But, according to a recent human rights report, despite the Emergency Law, 89 people were killed and 236 wounded in terrorist attacks in Egypt during the previous 12 months.
In neighboring Israel, which is still in a struggle with the Palestinians, only 18 were killed and 25 wounded in similar attacks during the same period.
The army's exalted, tormented, and wounded pride appears to be shaping both its response to Budanov's trial as well as that of President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin.
A month later, a French jihadist attacked the Jewish museum in Brussels, leaving three dead and one critically wounded.
Beware of Wounded LionsCAMBRIDGE – G-20 leaders who scoff at the United States’ proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire.
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