Sentences with phrase «human tolls in»

There is no single right way of calculating numbers like this, and the human toll in the immediate aftermath and long term are impossible to measure.

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It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

A Princeton sociologist chronicled the human toll of eviction in one city in a 2016 book.

«I'm proud to invest in Diamond Foundry Inc. - cultivating real diamonds in America without the human & environmental toll of mining.»

The «Blood Diamond» movie star has touted the company for «cultivating real diamonds in America without the human and environmental toll of mining.»

But Weigel goes further: He makes the empirical assertion that this corrupted culture played a major role in creating the savage, unstoppable human toll of World War I.

Meanwhile, even before the new attacks, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said the death toll in Syria is at least 3,500 since March...

Kozol's account of the human toll of poverty and inequality reflects an all - too - common reality in the U.S. and in the developing world.

And I just have to tell you, as you see those positive trajectories beginning to happen, and then you see the devastation and human toll taken in this earthquake, it's very unsettling.

He added, «Now, Katrina had a human toll and thankfully we have not paid in this region.

HRC Front Desk: [phone] TTY: [phone] Toll - Free: [phone] HRC Web site comment page General membership email at HRC: [email protected] Back live today after the holiday break and today kicking off a campaign on the show, along with many LGBT bloggers and opinionmakers in a blog swarm, urging people to call the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay group, and tell the group to pressure President Obama on getting «don't ask, don't tell» repealed this year.

Officials with the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees say their philanthropic work has been interrupted by President Donald Trump's attempts to temporarily halt refugees from entering the country, and that's taking a human toll on families who were ready to start a new life in the U.S.

In addition, both exact an enormous toll in human suffering, mortality and medical costIn addition, both exact an enormous toll in human suffering, mortality and medical costin human suffering, mortality and medical costs.

By last week the toll included the statues in the Mosul Museum, the classical site of Hatra, and the ancient Assyrian capitals of Nineveh, Nimrud, and Khorsabad, famed for their massive protective deities in the form of human - headed winged bulls.

«We found that interbreeding with archaic humans — the Neanderthals and Denisovans — has influenced the genetic diversity in present - day genomes at three innate immunity genes belonging to the human Toll - like - receptor family,» says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Like many scientists in Japan, Tamura is both anxious over disrupted research plans and heartbroken at the human toll of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left nearly half a million homeless.

A 2 - year fellowship from the Human Science Frontier Program financed a postdoc at Yale University School of Medicine on the role of so - called «toll - like receptors» in immune responses.

Humans are caught up in a grand planetary experiment of lowering the ocean's pH, with a potentially devastating toll on marine life.

«Larger - bodied species often need larger territories and are fewer in number than smaller - bodied species,» he explained, so they would have been more susceptible to extinction as hunting, logging, farming and other human activities took their toll.

«El Nino directly affects the climate of more than half the planet, often exacting a heavy toll in human life and economic wellbeing,» says Cane.

From the heavy rains that sent the Seine into the streets of Paris last year to a parade of storms that left southern England waterlogged during the winter of 2013 - 2014, there have been startling examples in recent years of the heavy toll that flooding can levy in both human and economic terms.

The brown hyena is relatively safe in protected areas, but clashes with humans elsewhere have taken their toll.

Ruslan Medzhitov of Yale University then found homologous molecules, Toll - like receptors, in humans.

Experts warn that poverty, conflict, and the lack of infrastructure will make the virus particularly difficult to battle in Africa, while the heavy burden of other diseases may both mask and amplify its human health toll.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is unprecedented and has taken a drastic toll on human life.

In addition to the toll in human lives, sepsis costs healthcare systems billions of dollars each year — much of the costs attributed to expenses incurred during weeks or months - long stays in intensive care unitIn addition to the toll in human lives, sepsis costs healthcare systems billions of dollars each year — much of the costs attributed to expenses incurred during weeks or months - long stays in intensive care unitin human lives, sepsis costs healthcare systems billions of dollars each year — much of the costs attributed to expenses incurred during weeks or months - long stays in intensive care unitin intensive care units.

Pictured: Fernando Centeno presented «Bolivarian Revolution in Retreat: Understanding the Venezuelan Crisis, its Human Toll and its Outlook».

At the same time, questions are emerging about the destructive environmental impact of mining for these and other elements, as well as the human toll of those mining operations in the developing world.

Expression of functional Toll - like receptors 2 and 4 in human aortic valve interstitial cells: potential roles in aortic valve inflammation and stenosis.

Ultraviolet - inactivated human cytomegalovirus induces placental syncytiotrophoblast apoptosis in a Toll - like receptor - 2 and tumour necrosis factor - α dependent manner.

The deadly heat stress associated with an August 2015 heat wave in Egypt was found to be 70 percent more likely, underscoring the heavy toll of climate change on humans.

A Tryptophan - Rich Motif in the Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 2 V Protein Is Critical for the Blockade of Toll - Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)- and TLR9 - Dependent Signaling

, but in this case don't trust your instincts; Jerry Maguire the trailer is a callous cocktail that coasts by on lowest common denominator Cruise control, while Jerry Maguire the film is among the very best contemporary movies about the uneasy intersection between sports and business as well as the human toll of this peculiarly American phenomenon.

If a group of decidedly anti-social tolls decided to make a film about relationships despite lacking any working knowledge in the areas of human behavior, cinematic craft or the basic cadences of the English language, what they might come up with would only begin to approximate what Wiseau slapped together.

Indeed, the rehabilitation of our water bodies can not happen with a denial of science that portrays the toll of global warming on our oceans due to excessive carbon dioxide emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson «Part thriller, part love story, part tale of daring impersonation, part wrenching examination of repression and its toll on human nature, the novel is set in North Korea (with a side trip to Texas).»

A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys» games on a frozen lake; of «nightcreeping» through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid - fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power - hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason's search to replace his dead grandfather's irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher's recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow - motion divorce in four seasons.

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment — which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale — might perhaps be a proper task in the United States.

Human Acts by Han Kang Han Kang, author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize - winning novel The Vegetarian, revisits the toll of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising on her native South Korea in Human Acts, a harrowing and stylistically daring series of linked stories.

«Capturing, holding, and euthanizing these animals costs a great deal in terms of resources, animal suffering, and the incalculable emotional toll it takes on the humans involved.

Alas, humans aren't the only animals getting wider, and obesity in dogs leads to the same kinds of problems that it does in us: diabetes, increased cancer risk, and liver disease — to say nothing of the toll it takes on a French bulldogs joints.

The human toll is almost incomprehensible, but we also think of the four - legged family members displaced and in danger.

The human toll of both is a particular concern — close to 185 environmental activists were killed in 2016, amongst them Berta Caceres from Honduras and Nilce de Souza «Nicinha» from Brazil.

The works in the show are overt in their message, rejecting romanticized notions of Africa and challenging the human and environmental toll of modern life.

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 3, 1982 - January 5, 1984 (another example exhibited) Paris, Maeght - Lelong; Zurich, Maeght - Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospektive 1947 - 1984, February - March 1985 (another example exhibited) Bridgehampton, Dia Art Foundation, Louise Bourgeois: Works from the Sixties, May 25 - June 25, 1989, p. 4 (another example exhibited and installation view illustrated) Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d'art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Kunstmuseum Bern; Otterlo, Kröller - Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 2, 1989 - July 8, 1991 (another example exhibited) Columbus, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, The Ohio State University, Inaugural Exhibition Part II - Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, May 18 - August 5, 1990 (another example exhibited) New York, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, Human Hands (Modeled Sculpture), May 9 - June 6, 1992 (another example exhibited) Los Angeles, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, January 9 - February 27, 1993 (another example exhibited) Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Louise Bourgeois Personages, 1940s / Installations, 1990s, July 31 - August 8, 1993 (another example exhibited) Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger Wien, Louise Bourgeois 1939 - 89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May 18 - June 12, 1990 (another example exhibited) Monterrey, MARCO; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, June 15, 1995 - August 15, 1996, p. 61 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Mahwah, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Heavy Metal: From Process to Performance, September 17 - October 17, 2008 (another example exhibited) London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois, October 10, 2007 - June 7, 2009 (another example exhibited) London, Hauser & Wirth, After Awkward Objects: Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, November 17 - December 16, 2009 (another example exhibited) Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa; Sao Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, March 19 - November 13, 2011, no. 20, p. 181 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Twosome, September 7, 2017 - January 20, 2018, p. 57 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

ZALINGEI, West Darfur, Sudan — On top of the human toll, the conflict in Darfur is afflicting the environment, says Abuelgasim Abdalla Adam, dean of the faculty of forestry sciences at the University of Zalingei.

In my news article, the forum's report on the human toll from climate change was vigorously criticized by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado (here's his full - length critique of the climate - mortality report).

As Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it in a email not long ago: «One has to recognize that the human toll from hurricanes results from the most intense wind and rain events; the vast majority of storms do little or no damage.

And the need for improvements has never been clearer than in the past week, as the New York region grappled with the human toll (four deaths and dozens of serious injuries) from the completely avoidable derailment of a speeding Metro - North commuter train one week ago.