1.   In fact, it says, there are more gun-related child deaths in America than American battle casualties during the entire Vietnam war.

2.   Sobering updates of Nazi invasions, battle casualties and global rebuilding efforts dominated front-page headlines.

3.   Strapped to the rooftop baggage rack was a battle casualty wrapped in a black rug.

4.   The Army declined to release an official number of battle casualties.

5.   The defense team also insisted that many of those in mass graves were battle casualties.

6.   But battle casualties, surrenders, factionalism and a decline in popular support have weakened the Communist movement, one of the longest active Marxist insurgencies in the world.

7.   Communist rebels maintain a presence in many hinterland areas, although their ranks have been thinned by battle casualties, factionalism and surrenders.

8.   During the Gulf War, New Zealand provided air reconnaissance and supply planes and medical teams to deal with battle casualties.

9.   It has carried out violent attacks on government and civilian targets in past years but has weakened considerably as a result of battle casualties, arrests and surrenders.

10.   Since then, rebel ranks have thinned because of battle casualties, surrenders and factionalism.