But the damage was already done.

Not only was precious time wasted, but further damage was done.

By the time that mistake was recognized, the damage was done, needlessly sacrificing security.

It has done enough damage.

But the damage had already been done.

No amount of money will undo the damage done.

Seldom have so few done so much damage to so many.

So far, little damage has been done and little positive change accomplished.

In a heartbeat, the damage was done. Astounded East Germans surged like a human sea to the crossing points to the West.

Australia remains concerned about the damage done in Afghanistan by years of conflict.

The court's decision was met with praise, but some net users complained that the ruling was made too late after plenty of damage had already been done.

And I am depressed at the damage being done to the idea of India.

But repairing the damage was tough.

Real damage is done when people lose confidence, not only in the elites, but in the system itself.

But another recent study done in the UK showed that research conducted in several countries was uniformly favorable to acupuncture as a treatment for the damage caused by stroke.

Blackwater has done more damage in Iraq than Al Qaeda would ever dream of an American company would do.

But it is in women s treatment, deliberately and accidentally, by the financial sector that the most damage is done.

Seldom have so few done so much damage to so many. That damage is all the greater when we consider how America s trade subsidies contributed to the demise of the Doha Round.

The more that can be done to prevent people from becoming cocaine addicts, the less damage these people will do to themselves and their families, the less money will get into the pockets of criminals, insurgents, and terrorists, and the less damage will be done to the environment.

The economic and physical damage was also immense.

Although there was property damage, there was no reaction from IDF.

Unfortunately, the authorities do not have much margin for error in working to counteract the damage done by the international crisis.

Little was done.

Formed in 2014, it tries to document and assess reported damage. Some scholars were concerned that little was being done despite the existence of 140 foreign excavation permits before the outbreak of war.

Patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history every year.

But we should seek ways to diminish the time spent and the damage done at the protectionist end of this political cycle.

The road that got the US to the Geneva agreement with the Russians was long and windy, and may indeed have done some damage to America s standing in the world, even though the outcome was better than any other on offer.

2.2 The damage was covered by several insurance companies, including Royal Nederlands Verzekeing Maatschappij NV (Royal), which partially compensated the damage.

Had they managed even a few more attacks similar to the ones on New York and Washington, they could have done serious damage.

Yet little was done.

But huge damage was done in 2001, when then Prime Minister John Howard s government refused to allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 438 rescued Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel, to enter Australian waters.

Immeasurably larger damage will be done to Ukraine it will lose a vital partner, one that perhaps has not always been ideal, but that nonetheless has never inflicted any damage and has never allied with other countries against it.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to America as well, impairing its military power and undermining the morale of the armed forces.

However, rather than dismantling it and making reparation for the damage already done, the occupying Power was continuing to confiscate West Bank land in order to continue construction of the wall, especially in occupied East Jerusalem.

But little of importance has yet been done to prevent the damage that derivatives and repo bankruptcy priorities could cause in another financial system meltdown.

(Obviously, given the damage caused by the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there is still some work to be done on that particular organism.)

Actions speak louder than words. All too often, policymakers treat public diplomacy as a bandage that can be applied after damage is done by other instruments.

It was done in South Africa.

It was done in Northern Ireland.

When I was in Benin in May, I learned at first hand from farmers and government officials from all over West Africa about the damage being done to agriculture in developing countries by protectionist policies in the developed world.

After the war, the damage was repaired and the Tower of London was reopened to the public.

A decade ago there would have been a good argument in international law that the Hutu Tutsi example supports prosecution only after the damage has been done.

The colossal damage months of shelling has done can be seen in the destruction of historic buildings and architecture, hundreds of thousands of refugees and thousands of martyrs.

In environmental law, the polluter pays principle is enacted to make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment.

By 1965, all legal forms of dissidence had been done away with, leaving armed violence as the only means of inflicting some sort of damage on the regime.