Sentences with phrase «form in the hostile environment»

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Stem cells are not like typical drugs — they are alive, and like all life forms, they can die in a hostile environment.

First, the discovery of life forms in exotic environments on Earth indicates that life is very hearty and can adapt to the strangest and most hostile environments.

The community may offer clues as to how life forms elsewhere in the universe survive in apparently hostile environments.

Unlawful treatment also comes in the form of sexual harassment by the employer — whether it is direct sexual harassment aimed at the employee which is known as quid pro quo harassment, or in the form of general sexual conduct by other employees which alters the conditions of employment and renders the work environment hostile or abusive.

For instance, if an employer regularly made derogatory jokes and insulting comments about women, this is a form of harassment that creates a hostile work environment and a wrongful termination lawsuit may be appropriate in these circumstances.

The act defines psychological harassment as «any vexatious behaviour in the form of repeated and hostile or unwanted conduct, verbal comments, actions or gestures, that affects an employee's dignity or psychological integrity and that results in a harmful work environment for the employee.»

Children with insecure attachment patterns «develop the inability to form secure attachments and react in a hostile, rejecting manner with their environment» (Pickover, 2002).