Sentences with phrase «disproportionate risk»

This would have a devastating impact on women and their families, with systemic barriers putting women of color at disproportionate risk.

Experimental procedures can be licit if they «respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but rather are directed to its healing, the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival»; but the mere «use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation» is «a crime against their dignity as human beings.»

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Research has shown that kinship families are at disproportionate risk of disadvantage compared with others in the population.

According to scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cats are consistently the number - one carrier of rabies among domestic animals and pose a «disproportionate risk for potential human exposure.»

(For example, forager bees» increased susceptibility to insecticide exposure may put the survival of the colony at disproportionate risk.)

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

The Supreme Court also found that, because the ET regime splits claims into «Type A» and «Type B» by perceived complexity, charging a higher fee for Type B claims, it discourages small Type B claims as the fee charged would be a disproportionate risk.

Motorcycle riders face a disproportionate risk of injury on the road, but they shouldn't have to fight harder than other victims for the compensation they need after a crash.

One of our citizen - lobbyists who is currently in high school was able to testify and draw attention to the disproportionate risk of violence faced by trans people, especially trans women of color.On Wednesday, the House debated HB 655, a measure that extends tax credits to so - called «pregnancy resource centers,» anti-abortion organizations that are on record for misleading pregnant people.

highlighted the disproportionate risk for relationship instability and dissolution following