The nation accepts more casualties to build a skyscraper or a bridge.

Still, the Pentagon's willingness to accept casualties was far from clear.

With the public increasingly loath to accept casualties, such suppression of enemy air defense is important.

"Five years on, it is very difficult for us to continue accepting civilian casualties," he said.

For the next two days the hospital continued to operate accepting casualties from both sides.

"A country will not accept long-term casualties unless privileged youths are putting their lives on the line," he said.

Our political leaders knew that it was the right thing to do but were unwilling to accept casualties in that war.

We are quite willing to accept casualties in order to preserve these things.

But I'm not prepared to accept massive casualties if we don't have to.

But if you start wars, you must be prepared to accept casualties.