Sentences with phrase «death of individuals at»

Vancouver lawyer Cameron Ward, who has represented families in 10 B.C. cases relating to injury or death of individuals at the hands of police, said: «It is change that has been long overdue.

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This made it possible for insured individuals to use a portion of their policy's death benefit when it was needed most without selling it off at a discount.

A campaign aimed at saving the life of a Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan has drawn global support from governments, human rights charities and thousands of individuals.

We can take some comfort at the fact that finally, toward the end of the twentieth century, prosecutors have begun applying criminal statutes to corporate officers who make decisions that (for instance) cause death or injury to a worker or to the public, and charges brought against these individuals include manslaughter and homicide charges.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

I have not dealt with the death and afterlife of the individual thus far in this book, though I have done so elsewhere at considerable length.15 The issues involved, though related, are not identical.

All such processes of self - creation inevitably, however, sooner or later come to rest in death, ideally at a point when the life - potential for that individual or society has been fully lived out.

Scarcely any of the billions of living individuals have ever left their trace in an existing fossil, since the deposit of such a preserved fossil relies on very specific climatic / geological conditions to have occurred at the time of the organism's death.

To be sure, this expectation was social; it concerned the nation as a whole; but by indirection it brought the Jews face to face at last with the inescapable problem of individual destiny after death.

(From the Christian point of view (which in this coincides with the biological viewpoint logically carried to its extreme) the «gathering together» of the Spirit gradually accomplished in the course of the «coiling» of the Universe, occurs in two tempos and by two stages — a by slow «evaporation» (individual deaths); and simultaneously b by incorporation in the collective human organism («the mystic body») whose maturation will only be complete at the end of Time, through the Parousia.)

He is the X behind our self - commitment to the community or fatherland, and yet such a God permits the extinction of the individual at death.

In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte's extreme war on drugs has lasted for less than two years, and it's accounted for the deaths of at least 12,000 individuals — 2,555 at the hands of police.

Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.

These are all individuals who are being assassinated for suspected or actual disloyalty or insubordination of some form, and a public identifiable, high profile hit tells others who might consider disloyalty or insubordination that even if it seems like they are in the clear, that they can be made to suffer a horrible death at any time as a consequence of their disloyalty or insubordination and that the agency of the sovereign government to whom they owe loyalty won't hesitate to do it.

By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable individuals toward physician - assisted death.

The information provided includes a listing of all deaths reported to the Justice Center of individuals receiving residential services at a particular facility or who had received such services within 30 days of their death.

«For far too long, there has been a presumption that death should be at the convenience of the system, as opposed to respecting the individual wishes of those who are approaching their final days,» commented Paul Cann, director of policy at Help the Aged.

The skeleton, an adult male aged around 40 at the time of his death, was shrouded in a rabbit - skin blanket and reed mats and was wearing moccasins; he was found with the cremated or partial remains of three other individuals.

Their study showed that a woman's risk of death increased by 7 % per year for each son born — a small but statistically robust effect, at least for the individuals the team looked at — Finnish villagers in pre-Industrial Scandinavia.

Forensic researchers at North Carolina State University have found a more accurate way to assess an individual's age at death, based on the bone mineral density of the femur.

«Current techniques for assessing an individual's age at death rely on reviewing the wear and tear on a skeleton's joint surfaces,» says Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work.

The virtual unwrapping, described in this month's issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, revealed an individual who was about 45 years old at the time of his death.

Based on growth marks, the team estimates one of the individuals to be at least 2 years old and still growing at the time of its death, supporting the growing body of evidence that pterosaurs had long incubation periods.

At present, life insurance is calculated on a «pool» basis: as no one knows who is most at risk of early death, individuals pay for each other's riskAt present, life insurance is calculated on a «pool» basis: as no one knows who is most at risk of early death, individuals pay for each other's riskat risk of early death, individuals pay for each other's risks.

The researchers» second study looked at how participants performed in an individual basket - shooting challenge when presented with a more subtle reminder of death.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Peter Byass, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research says «Undoubtedly child mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress» but he adds»... Of the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.&raquof this progress» but he adds»... Of the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.&raquOf the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.&raquof those individual deaths.»

Increasing the proportion of people linked to care engagement protocols within three months of a new HIV diagnosis to 90 percent, coupled with targeted yearly screening of high - risk individuals, would avert an estimated 292,000 HIV infections and 107,000 AIDS - related deaths, at an incremental cost of $ 52.9 billion, or $ 65,700 per QALY gained.

Maximilian Schich, an art historian at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues used the Google - owned knowledge base, Freebase, to find 120,000 individuals who were notable enough in their life - times that the dates and locations of their births and deaths were recorded.

When TB goes untreated, individuals are not only at risk of death but also unknowingly transmit the disease to others.

«The findings that we found most interesting were the microRNAs that reflect the extent of the neuron death in the brain, since it is this process that causes the debilitating symptoms of the disease and eventually leads to the death of the individual,» explained senior author Richard H. Myers, PhD, Director of the Genome Science Institute at BUSM.

Following a heart attack, individuals are at an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD).

Chernobyl was directly responsible for at least 56 deaths and as many as 4,000 more, according to the World Health Organization, though other estimates vary, and spread radioactive material as far as the U.K. Three Mile Island has never been conclusively linked to any deaths or health effects, though some individuals may have received radiation doses of as high as 100 millirems.

In addition, individuals with stage B HF had greater circulating concentrations of cardiac stress biomarkers levels, putting them at increased risk for death.

Thus, «vaccination enabled the onward transmission of viruses otherwise too lethal to transmit, putting unvaccinated individuals at great risk of severe disease and death,» the authors write online today in PLOS Biology.

At the early farming site of Eulau, German archaeologists found four graves containing 13 individuals who had apparently met a violent death.

In clinical trials, the pioneering diagnostic — developed by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the Western Eye Hospital — allowed doctors to see individual nerve cell death in the back of the eye.

Forensic researchers have found a more accurate way to assess an individual's age at death, based on the bone mineral density of the femur.

The death of François Jacob at age 92 on April 19 should serve as a reminder in this age of 20 - plus - person publications of the deep thinking and superb critical experimental skill of single individuals.

«We could clearly find preserved DNA signatures in the DNA extract we made from the pulp chamber and from that we were able to determine that Yersinia pestis was circulating in that individual at the time of death,» she told the BBC.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Obese people with central obesity were also at higher risk of death compared to normal - weight and normal - waist individuals.

A veteran action director, McTeigue shoots individual fight scenes well enough, but never provides any modulation or sense of escalating terror — at no point is anyone allowed to crack a smile, and even when the children are threatened with imminent death, the film's pace never seems to quicken.

Some of your choices do involve life - or - death decisions, however, so they naturally have some weight on at least a few individuals.

His orders are to take the man to his trial (and presumed death sentence) in Tinguit, a day's journey away, but he balks at the idea early on; as we discover more about the paths of both men, we start to understand why, Oelhoffen probing into the laws of man, and the extent to which individuals should follow them.

So he responded to said challenge by delivering a cockamamie concept involving the end of the world (or at least the Eastern seaboard of the United States part of it) and how a diminishing group of ethnically mixed individuals deal with all the death and destruction.

Kendra's Law — named after Kendra Webdale, a 32 - year - old woman who was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train in 1999 by a schizophrenic man who was not taking medication for his condition — allows judges to order certain mentally ill individuals to accept outpatient treatment and monitoring if they wish to remain at large in the community.

An intricately layered, blistering tale of subterfuge and deception at the highest, most hidden levels of the government, and in the most intimate, and vulnerable, moments of individual lives, The Prisoner of Guantánamo is as timely and razor sharp in its depiction of life — and death — at Gitmo as it is unstoppably suspenseful.

Death at the hands of unknown but clearly calculating individuals who let nothing stop them from attaining their own ends.

The total of all the real property and personal property owned by an individual at time of death.

What benefit is paid at the death of the annuitant, if the annuity contract is owned by another individual?