During the battle both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Domestic terrorism in Pakistan has taken a heavy human and economic toll.

Crucially, both of Catalonia s major parties the governing center right CiU and socialist PSC suffered severe setbacks.

Weakness in the job market takes a huge toll on economic and personal well being.

Eventually the retreat turned into a rout with heavy casualties on the Byzantine side.

The financial fallout from the debt crisis could also result in huge losses for China.

The French suffered very heavy losses but managed to cross the river and avoid being trapped.

After the barrage, the Soviet infantry attacked across open ground but was repulsed with heavy casualties.

Chronic disasters such as health epidemics, drought and famine continued to take a heavy toll on the populations of developing countries.

Stability the firm's ability to remain in business in the long run, without having to sustain significant losses in the conduct of its business.

These are in addition to ongoing committees, such as those on aviation safety and response to mass casualties.

A similar fate may fall upon employees at Channel 10 and the only left leaning Israeli daily, Haaretz, which are also incurring heavy losses.

They quickly raced across the airfield under heavy artillery fire from the highlands to the north, suffering heavy casualties in the process.

Every year, marine litter entails great economic costs and losses to people and communities around the world.

A. Chaudhry (Pakistan) The earthquake that hit Pakistan on 8 October has caused tremendous loss of life and damage to infrastructure.

Similarly, banks have short term liabilities (deposits) and long term assets, which they cannot liquidate quickly without incurring great losses.

Deeply concerned at the unprecedented floods in Mozambique, which have resulted in tragic loss of human lives and extensive destruction of property and infrastructure,

Alarmed in particular at the possibility that terrorist groups may exploit new technologies to facilitate acts of terrorism, which may cause massive damage, including huge loss of human life,

Deeply concerned at the recent floods in Djibouti causing an important loss in livestock, as well as serious damage to roads and health establishments thus causing cholera and malaria epidemics

Alarmed in particular at the possibility that terrorist groups may exploit new technologies to facilitate acts of terrorism, which may cause massive damage, including huge loss of human life,

Alarmed in particular at the possibility that terrorist groups may exploit new technologies to facilitate acts of terrorism, which may cause massive damage, including huge loss of human life,

The creation of seed monopolies, and with them crushing debts to a new species of moneylender the agents of the seed and chemical companies has taken a high human toll as well.

1. Strongly condemns the heinous acts of terrorism, which have caused enormous loss of human life, destruction and damage in the cities of New York, host city of the United Nations, and Washington, D.C., and in Pennsylvania

Israeli policy had resulted in heavy losses to the Palestinian economy, there was a 26 per cent unemployment rate among Palestinians in the occupied territories and 64 per cent of the population were living below the poverty line.

The flood caused a lot of damage.

The storm caused a lot of damage.

By 1917, Britain had over a million horses and mules in service, but harsh conditions, especially during winter, resulted in heavy losses, particularly amongst the Clydesdale horses, the main breed used to haul the guns.

But would good opportunities for state investment be similarly renewed? Might the uncertainties raised by entering into such unknown territory exact a serious toll on private investment activity?

Following this defeat Iraqi forces moved into the Nablus Jenin Tulkarm strategic triangle, where they suffered heavy casualties in the Israeli attack on Jenin which began on 3 June, but they managed to hold on to their positions.

The AIDS epidemic takes a heavy toll on women and adolescent girls, who account for some 57 per cent of all people living with HIV in sub Saharan Africa and about 50 per cent on average worldwide.

The Royal Thai Government attaches great importance and thus accords high priority to the issue of road safety, because we suffer tremendous losses in terms of human lives, property and human capacity as a result of road accidents each year.

Let me take this opportunity to express to the Government and the people of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan my Government's deepest condolences in connection with the terrorist attack carried out in Amman yesterday, which caused serious casualties among innocent civilians.

The multilayered impact of displacement and the integrated system of violence created by the conflict and occupation continue to take a heavy toll on lives of Palestinian women as security measures and military necessity increasingly take on a character of collective punishment.

At Tuapse, one of the fiercest battles of the conflict, the Russian landing had begun at 10 00 in the morning, and the Circassians were not beaten back from their positions until 5 00 in the afternoon, with the Russians suffering heavy casualties.

The December 2004 tsunami, which affected many categories of countries, served to highlight the special vulnerability of the small island developing States, which suffered enormous human and material loss.

Five weeks ago, an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale hit South Asia, causing colossal loss of life and material damage, especially in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, in Jammu and Kashmir, in India and in Afghanistan.

Deeply concerned by the increasing number and scale of disasters, resulting in massive losses of life and property worldwide, as well as their long term consequences, especially severe for developing countries,

Indeed, commentators also warn that no matter how strongly the U.S. and its allies apply pressure on Pyongyang, the North has enough artillery (without nuclear weapons) to strike and cause considerable damage to Seoul.

This certainly was a grievous loss to him.

This is not, however, a testament to the dollar s role as a reserve currency after all, the fiscal gap is a bill that needs to be paid, and creditors would regard any attempt by the US to devalue the repayment by printing money and stoking inflation as tantamount to default.

But if the yen appreciates sharply, as it easily could given Japan s huge current account surplus, some hedge funds will suffer huge capital losses and the yen carry trade will implode.

Nor is it conceivable that the US or Britain would have been called to account by the Geneva Commission, itself composed by some of the most brutal abusers in the world, for the massive casualties they inflicted on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Deeply concerned at the unprecedented floods in Mozambique in 2000 and 2001, which have resulted in the tragic loss of human lives, extensive destruction of property and infrastructure and the dislodging and scattering of landmines,

On 26 December 2004, a devastating tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean causing an enormous loss of life and unprecedented destruction to the livelihood of millions of human beings, primarily in Asia, but also in Africa.

The loss of life in Pakistan has been massive.