11.   According to conventional wisdom, the increased presence of these giant retailers will result in consolidations and casualties among the smaller regional players.

12.   But as the intifada continued, with heavy casualties among the Palestinians, Rabin slowly concluded that true security could not be found in subjugating a hostile people.

13.   But casualties among the Arab population could have been substantial.

14.   But fearful of casualties among American soldiers in such a high-risk operation, the White House has never given the go-ahead to the plan.

15.   But the first priority of U.N. peacekeeping contingents is to avoid casualties among their own personnel.

16.   Casualties among Chechen fighters and civilians are even higher but small and highly mobile groups of rebels have managed to remove many of their own dead.

17.   Casualties among the peacekeeping forces have been kept remarkably low.

18.   Cohen and other officials also said the attack was launched at night to minimize casualties among civilians, especially in Khartoum.

19.   Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev said Thursday, however, that the goal was not to meet deadlines, but to minimize casualties among Russian soldiers.

20.   Despite the fact that the market was concerned with economic growth, cyclical stocks were the main casualties among the Dow components.