Sentences with phrase «death toll among»

With the recent death toll among Turkish denim sandblasting workers due to the lung disease silicosis nearing 50, one

this is not to mention the economic impact and death toll among wildlife.

The method could prolong survival for organ recipients and reduce the death toll among the tens of thousands of patients globally who need donor livers today.

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The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

The greatest advances made by the pro-life movement have been made among the young, the generation that has known the death toll from Roe v. Wade all their lives.

James, too, had suffered martyrdom in A.D. 62, and death must have begun to take its toll among the rest of the apostles by the time that the Jewish revolt and the final capture of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by the Romans had disorganised the life of Palestine for a generation.

If the estimates are confirmed, it would be among the highest civilian death tolls since the war started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.

A third possible reason is the sudden toll of death among the Assyrian forces by plague (the angel of the Lord, 19:35) The sequence and detail of events may now be irrecoverable and we do not doubt the influence of popular legend in the third possible explanation.

Most of those deaths are concentrated among the world's poorest populations, according to a study published online October 19 in the Lancet that documents the health and economic toll of pollution in 2015.

In portraying the intensity of Joe's physical and emotional struggle, Ramsay pitches him in a hazy place between life and death, haunted by traumatic memories of the past: an abusive father, unforgiving battlegrounds, former jobs that collectively take their toll, among them.

... money money money...» This season's muscle flexing among elite Manhattan dealers feels bizarrely out of touch, given the rising death toll in Afghanistan, and the precariousness of our economy.

Cigarette death toll from World Health Organization, «Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),» fact sheet (Geneva: November 2006); Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, «Top Combined State - Local Cigarette Tax Rates,» fact sheet (Washington, DC: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, 1 July 2007); Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids, «Raising Cigarette Taxes Reduces Smoking, Especially Among Kids (And the Cigarette Companies Know It),» fact sheet (Washington, DC: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, 11 June 2007).

Cohen Milstein's Steven J. Toll, Managing Partner at Cohen Milstein and Co-Chair of the firm's Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice and Theodore J. Leopold, Chair of the firm's Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death; Unsafe & Defective Products; and Managed Care Abuse practices; and Co-Chair of the firm's Consumer Protection practice, were recognized among the top class action lawyers in the country for 2017.

Upon further investigation the research team was horrified to learn of the atrocious death toll and serious injury statistics among teenage drivers on the roads in the United States.

In the case of terminal illness, that burden can begin to take its» toll months before someone's death in the form of lost wages because they are too sick to work or huge medical bills if you are among the 50 million uninsured or underinsured people in our country.

Sometimes soft - spoken and quietly emotional, sometimes fired up and loudly passionate, Kennedy paid tribute to the 17 killed and 16 wounded in the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, praised the eruption of activism among student - survivors, and delivered a searing takedown of those who have repeatedly failed to act to curb gun violence as the toll from gun deaths has continued to grow.