Sentences with phrase «facing imminent risk»

Family stabilization programs are aimed at families who have come to the attention of child welfare services and are in crisis and / or facing imminent risk of removal.

The Rescue Crew was created especially to help fill a need in the local rescue community for shelter animals facing imminent risk of euthanasia without rescue support.

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The bank also believes there are fewer imminent risks facing the global and Canadian economies, although the speed of the slowdown in Canada's previously hot housing market could become a new challenge.

Given that the company is now in hibernation mode and a sale or liquidation is imminent, however — and the strong argument the dissidents have presented that shareholders face substantial risk if the board will not guarantee downside protection for their liquidity option — we believe shareholders would be best served by replacing the incumbent board with the dissident slate of nominees.»

The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network reports that 24 percent of the remaining reefs are at risk of imminent collapse, with another 26 percent facing significant loss in the next few decades, due to mounting human pressures.

In the past two years, six states have shut down nuclear plants, and «dozens» of other plants across the U.S. are facing challenging economic conditions, placing them at risk of imminent retirement.

situations involving the removal of a seriously ill person in which substantial grounds have been shown for believing that he or she, although not at imminent risk of dying, would face a real risk, on account of the absence of appropriate treatment in the receiving country or the lack of access to such treatment, of being exposed to a serious, rapid and irreversible decline in his or her state of health resulting in intense suffering or to a significant reduction in life expectancy.