Sentences with phrase «danger to human life»

While fire is a natural and vital part of keeping our forests healthy, as more and more people live in or near forested areas, the danger to human life and homes from the fire season becomes greater and greater.

(«The facts must be such that the consequences of the negligent conduct could reasonable have been foreseen and it must appear that the [death][danger to human life] was not the result of inattention, mistaken judgment or misadventure but the natural and probable result of aggravated, reckless or flagrantly negligent conduct [in order for child endangerment to have occurred].»)

8 (1) When the Director, upon reasonable and probable grounds, is of the opinion that a source of contaminant is discharging into the natural environment any contaminant that constitutes, or the amount, concentration or level of which constitutes, an immediate danger to human life, the health of any persons, or to property, the Director may issue a stop order directed to,

Having a Railroad Tycoon with the complexity of the original but 2011 graphics would be a danger to human life on Earth, from its sheer addictiveness.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

Not exact matches

«just sayin» How is getting tax bennifits as equal rights for two humans loving eachother, related to raping an unwilling child and puting the childs life in danger?

But there is an inherent danger in this approach which derives from the fact that human nature makes it difficult for a group of people to share money and meals and chores and living space equitably and harmoniously, particularly if they try to do this in a democratic way.

The combination is thought to increase the danger to animal and human life.

In a time in which we are in danger of losing our birthright as human beings, Martin Buber has shown us what it means to live as men.

The gay community has been so exercised to deny that homosexual orientation is chosen that it runs the danger of draining homosexual behavior of its human dimension as a chosen act or life.

The object of theological inquiry is constantly in danger of being reduced to the «name» God and the way it functions to orient human life.

But it also has its dangers, such as living the life of a hermit holed up in my cave without any real live humans to disturb my introspections.

He thought that the greatest danger to human progress was «Christianity» — Sunday religion where people attended services to pray and sing, but never let the love of God flow through their lives to a hurting world.

He urged that the arguments should revolve around the dangers that such broken down vehicles could cause to human lives.

The case is likely to worsen already tense relations with the European court of human rights, which ruled in 2010 the country had failed to implement laws enabling women to have an abortion if their life was in danger.

«Our planet and its ability to sustain human life are in danger.»

A new group calling itself the Committee on CERN Experimental Dangers (ConCERNed) will submit a complaint on 3 November in the next few days (see note after jump) to the human rights committee of the United Nations calling for work with the LHC to be stopped because it threatens life on Earth and so violates the complainants human rights.

He sees a cautionary tale about the dangers to human survival, and yet the planets he studies have made him unexpectedly bullish on life's cosmic prospects.

Although deer can devastate plant life when their populations grow out of control, the real danger to humans comes from the ticks they carry, said Curtis.

Researchers are already exploring the dangers that hitchhiking microbes from Earth would pose to potential alien life, as well as the risk of alien microbes to the health of human astronauts.

Albert Schweitzer said that «Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.»

Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli faces certain death if discovered.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Among losses in human lives and material goods, and danger from billions of land mines in war regions all over the world, there is one more, hard, long term legacy of war: trauma — present on both individual and communal level, creating traumatized, dysfunctional societies which capacities to recover and progress are inevitable lessen, according to some authors even lost in genetic degeneration trauma could have on generations of human population long - term.

«Children have a right to books that reflect their own images and books that open less familiar worlds to them... for those children who had historically been ignored — or worse, ridiculed — in children's books, seeing themselves portrayed visually and textually as realistically human was essential to letting them know that they are valued in the social context in which they are growing up... At the same time, the children whose images were reflected in most American children's literature were being deprived of books as windows into the realities of the multicultural world in which they are living, and were in danger of developing a false sense of their own importance in the world.»

Humanitarian doctor Albert Schweitzer writes, «anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless, is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.»

Another danger of fleas for cats is infestation of the home and possible transmission of disease to humans through sharing a living space.

Rattlesnakes create life - threatening danger that poses threat to both pets and humans.

Throughout history, dogs have been known to do extraordinary things for and with their human counterparts, including saving lives and alerting humans of danger.

After the disaster strikes and towns are declared disaster areas, most people are desperate to get back in to rescue their pets, putting human lives in danger as they return to unstable buildings and dangerous debris.

Another danger of fleas and ticks for cats is infestation of the home and possible transmission of disease to humans through sharing a living space.

Kick wakes up in what looks to be a desolate and destroyed city void of any other human life but filled with danger.

The water ice counteracts the traditional danger of living above ground by serving as a radiation barrier, offsetting fears of solar exposure that have, until now, projected Martian architecture into a dark underworld — buried beneath a regolithic surface that is believed to contain perchlorates, gypsum and other substances hazardous to human life.Water as a Radiation Shield By taking advantage of water - ice's ability to filter the sun's rays and protect against radiation, ICE HOUSE prioritizes a life above ground and celebrates the human presence on the planetary surface.

Therefore, IMHO, it would be closer to the truth to call WUWT a «skeptic» site that calls into question exactly how much the mean temperature has increased since the advent of the thermometer record in the late 1880's, how much of that is due to human activities and how much to natural cycles not under our control, what dangers rising temperatures may pose to human life and civilization, and what technologically and politically doable actions may be taken to reduce human - caused warming, and our dependence on foreign sources of fossil energy.

unregulated growth of absolute global human population numbers from 6.6 billion to a projected 9.2 billion people in 2050 -RCB- is presenting a clear and present danger to life as we know it «Spaceship Earth»?

On this basis, it is impossible to draw a conclusion that there is a level of CO2 that we are in danger of reaching (from human activity) that would be detrimental to life (toxic) OTHER THAN through rapid climate or environmental changes.

It seems to me that if we keep engaging in and hotly pursuing worldwide overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities, distinctly human activities that can not be sustained much longer on a planet with size, compostion and ecology of Earth, then the human species is a clear and present danger on our watch to future human well being, life as we know it, and environmental health.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last December formally issued a so - called «Endangerment Finding» declaring carbon dioxide, the very substance human beings exhale, is a danger to our health and the future of life on the planet as we know it.

(AP)-- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood.

The consensus in the scientific community is stark: our planet, and its ability to sustain human life, is in imminent danger.

Any injury due to manual work for the employment or any hazardous occupation, self - exposure to avoidable danger unless it's an attempt to save a human life.

We humans have one attribute that sets us apart from all other living organisms on this planet; the ability to adapt quickly to what is (vs what «should» be) in the face of imminent personal danger.