Sentences with phrase «cause widespread death»

Outbreaks can cause widespread death and suffering, and erode community goodwill the shelter depends on when seeking volunteers, adopters and donors.

President Donald Trump's nuclear posture review, leaked to HuffPost this month, seems to show the US believes Russia is building a dangerous new undersea nuclear weapon that critics say could cause widespread death and damage.

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Hurricane Irma sideswiped Puerto Rico on Sept. 6, leaving more than 1 million people without power but causing no deaths or widespread damage like it did on nearby islands.

Once you fully let go of that delusion and see us for what we are, just another specie vying for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death, suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause for cynicism.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

The drug epidemic, now the leading cause of preventable death in the country, is widely attributed to the widespread availability of prescription painkillers.

Heroin and opioid use has been recognized as a growing and widespread problem across Westchester County, New York state and the country; the rate of deaths caused by opioids in the county has quadrupled since 2010, according to Westchester officials.

Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.

Fourth graders learned to build persuasive arguments based on primary source analysis to explain the cause of widespread deaths in the Jamestown settlement.

It was 2006 — a year before a spate of pet deaths and illnesses caused by contaminated food triggered widespread pet food recalls.

It is the cause of more cat deaths, directly or indirectly, than any other organism and is widespread in the cat population.

Feline Panleukopenia Virus (AKA Feline Distemper) Feline Panleukopenia Virus (causative agent of Feline Distemper) is a widespread and highly contagious viral disease that causes fever, vomiting, diarrhea, immune suppression, anemia and death.

Another survivor's story described Captain Fraser's death from natural causes, but Eliza's stories inspired widespread hostility towards Aborigines.

This is forecast to cause increased droughts for more than a billion people, bring about widespread death of coral reefs, and put up to a third of all species at risk of extinction.

According to new research, drought damage will likely cause widespread forest death by the 2050s as a result of climate change.

The three - year Syrian drought had a catalytic effect, contributing to existing water and agricultural insecurity and causing widespread crop failures and livestock death.

During the past century, over 400 tropical cyclones have struck Bangladesh's coast, causing widespread devastation and death.

Storm surge can cause deaths, widespread infrastructure damage, and severe beach erosion.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

While it shouldn't be too surprising that there are people who deny PA (people deny moon landings, Elvis Presley's death, and the Holocaust, etc.), it should be unacceptable that continued PA denials by a vocal minority of professionals, who ignore overwhelming international evidence, facilitate the widespread and unrestrained alienation efforts by parents which continue to cause significant damage to adults and children.

Cervical cancer used to be a top killer in developed nations — and it remains a major cause of death in countries without widespread health - care access — but in the last 50 years, cervical cancer deaths fell by 70 percent in the United States, transforming cervical cancer from the leading cause of cancer death among American women to a less common, nearly preventable cancer.