For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

For the loss of some 2, 000 dead and wounded, Eugene inflicted approximately 25, 000 casualties on his enemy – including the Grand Vizier, Elmas Mehmed Pasha – annihilating the Turkish army.

For example: the threat of losing money, the threat of abuse of confidential information or the threat of accidents and casualties.

For example: stakeholders withdrawing during a project may endanger funding of the project ; confidential information may be stolen by employees even within a closed network ; lightning striking an aircraft during takeoff may make all people on board immediate casualties.

For Britain, the Second Boer War was the longest, the most expensive (£ 200 million ), and the bloodiest conflict between 1815 and 1914, lasting three months longer and resulting in higher British casualties than the Crimean War ( 1853 – 56 ).

For example, the battle at Xiang River “ which the official history of the Long March identifies as the longest and most heroic battle of the entire campaign, was in fact a major defeat for the Communists, with casualties and desertions reducing the First Army from 86, 000 to 30, 000 people .”< ref > Pye, Lucian.

For Operation Dracula, an ad hoc parachute battalion group made up of personnel from the 153 and 154 ( Gurkha ) Parachute Battalions of the Indian Army secured Japanese coastal defences, which enabled the seaborne assault by the 26th Indian Division to attain its objectives with a minimum of casualties and time.

For example, during World War II it was used as an emergency hospital for military and civilian casualties, including psychiatric cases.

Moved by the opening of the Great War and the already high number of casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, in 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote his For the Fallen, with its Ode of Remembrance, as he was visiting the cliffs near Pentire Head in north Cornwall ( where a plaque commemorates it nowadays.

For the loss of fewer than 3, 000 dead and wounded ( far fewer than Blenheim ), his victory had cost the enemy some 20, 000 casualties, inflicting in the words of Marshal Villars, " the most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs ".

For trifling casualties, they covered the retreat of the 7th Division and fell back into a stronger position selected by Wellington.

For example there is mention of late armor ( 1 Samuel 17: 4 – 7, 38 – 39 ; 25: 13 ), use of camels ( 1 Samuel 30: 17 ) and cavalry ( as distinct from chariotry ) ( 1 Samuel 13: 5, 2 Samuel 1: 6 ), iron picks and axes ( as though they were common, 2 Samuel 12: 31 ), sophisticated siege techniques ( 2 Samuel 20: 15 ), there is a gargantuan troop ( 2 Samuel 17: 1 ), a battle with 20, 000 casualties ( 2 Samuel 18: 7 ), and refer to Kushite paramilitary and servants, clearly giving evidence of a date in which Kushites were common, after the 26th Dynasty of Egypt, the period of the last quarter of the 8th century BCE.

For example, one might need to create disorganisation within enemy troops, create casualties within enemy troops, eliminate the functioning of an enemy tank, or destroy an enemy bunker.

For Forester, the tale of Herbert Curzon's almost inevitable rise to high command, the senseless slaughters he directs and his eventual retirement to the life of an aged cripple in a wheelchair, is not about Curzon — it is about the attitudes and mores of the British Army and of British society more generally, the attitudes that ( in Forester's view ) led to the appalling casualties and the horrors of the First World War.

In December 1948, the Dutch launched " Operation Crow ", which decimated much of the Indonesian fighting forces, and resulted in the capture of Sukarno and Hatta. For his part, Suharto took severe casualties in a humiliating defeat for Republican forces as the Dutch invaded the area of Yogyakarta.

For six days the Italians and Germans stubbornly defended the position inflicting and taking heavy casualties.

For many years the number of casualties was thought to be 78, but recently it was confirmed that there were 79.

For example, it is known that the French army sustained more than 4, 000 casualties ( dead or wounded ) in the siege of Lille alone.

For almost two hours before withdrawing, McDougal sank two enemy vessels and severely damaged another one, along with inflicting some forty Japanese casualties, while the Wyoming suffered extensive damage with fourteen crew dead or wounded.

For a modest gain in ground, they suffered 30 per cent casualties and were in no fit state to exploit their position.

For the first 18 months of the war, the division was heavily engaged on the front lines with North Korean and Chinese forces, suffering over 10, 000 casualties.

For all areas affected by conflict, the Ukrainian casualties are estimated as from 10, 000 to 30, 000 between 1943 and 1947.

For the next 12 days the two armies engaged in several skirmishes with minimal casualties.

For a few hours until noon, the disciplined British volleys pinned down the Zulu centre, inflicting some casualties and causing the advance to stall.

For three or four hours X Ray Company were pinned down on the slopes of the mountain. Naval gunfire ripped back and forth across the mountain, but the Argentine 3rd Platoon of Llambías-Pravaz held the Royal Marines off and were not dislodged until about 2. 30 am local time. Colonel Andrew Whitehead realized that a single company could not hope to secure Two Sisters without massive casualties, and brought up the battalion's two other companies.

For Altaicists, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic – Mongolic – Tungusic – Korean – Japanese.

For example, Oki, born as a child of an Ainu father and a Japanese mother, became a musician who plays the traditional Ainu instrument tonkori.

For example, jīngjì ( 经济 ／ 經濟, keizai ), which in the original Chinese meant " the workings of the state ", was narrowed to " economy " in Japanese ; this narrowed definition was then re-imported into Chinese.

For over a year after the Japanese surrender, rumors circulated throughout China that the Japanese had entered into a secret agreement with Chiang, in which the Japanese would assist the Nationalists in fighting the Communists in exchange for the protection of Japanese persons and property there.

For example, the kanji word ' Tōkyō ( 東京 ), the Japanese name of Tokyo can be sorted as if it were spelled out in the Japanese characters of the hiragana syllabary as " to-u-ki -< sub > yo </ sub >- u " ( とうきょう ), using the conventional sorting order for these characters.

For example, the previous emperor is usually called Hirohito in English, although he was never referred to as Hirohito in Japan, and was renamed Shōwa Tennō after his death, which is the only name that Japanese speakers currently use when referring to him.

For instance, the Indonesian language uses the Dutch term kaisar exclusively for foreign emperors such as the Japanese, but never for local rulers.

For many years a popular myth has persisted that in the Japanese version of this film, Godzilla emerges as the winner.

For example, two-tense languages such as English and Japanese express past and non-past, this latter covering both present and future in one verb form.

For similar reasons, the age of the heroine was also altered: initially stated to be a 16 year old high-schooler in the original Japanese version, she is an 18 year old college student in the US version.

For example, Japanese society is more group-oriented ( e. g., decisions tend to be taken by consensus among groups, rather than by individuals ).

For three decades from 1960, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence was palatalized and realized phonetically as, approximately chi ; however, now and are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī " Western style tea " and chii " social status ".

For example, the guardian spirits of the land, occupations, and skills ; spirits of Japanese heroes, men of outstanding deeds or virtues, and those who have contributed to civilization, culture and human welfare ; those who have died for the state or the community ; and the pitiable dead.

For the Japanese company, see Molten Corporation ; or see Molton or Moulton.

For instance, Japanese barabara is used to reflect an object's state of disarray or separation, and shiiin is the onomatopoetic form of absolute silence ( used at the time an English speaker might expect to hear the sound of crickets chirping or a pin dropping in a silent room, or someone coughing ).

( For the plural, one can either follow ordinary English practice and add an s, or use an invariable plural as in the Japanese.

For some time exports of Japanese whisky suffered from the belief in the West that whisky made in the Scotch style, but not produced in Scotland, was inferior, and until fairly recently, the market for Japanese whiskies was almost entirely domestic.

For example, in October 2001, Japan adopted legislation allowing the creation of " Japan-version 401 ( k )" accounts even though no provision of the relevant Japanese codes is in fact called " section 401 ( k ).

For six months before the atomic bombings, the United States intensely fire-bombed 67 Japanese cities.