Sentences with phrase «in vulnerable places»

We definitely seem to be making things worse with deforestation, mismanagement of water resources, building inadequate habitations in vulnerable places, and so on.

That reduction occurred despite more complete reporting, an incentive to declare greater damage to gain more aid, and a massively growing population, particularly in vulnerable places like coastal areas, in recent times.

But in vulnerable places it actually means a bigger exposure to hazard.

In the meantime, it's probably wise to split the climate issue into its component parts — for instance pursuing international partnerships for energy innovation and building resilience in vulnerable places to any climate hazard.

Deeply confounding factors get in the way — particularly the huge growth in exposure to climate threats through population growth and settlement patterns in vulnerable places and the substantial natural variability in the frequency and intensity of rare extreme events.

-- Given population densities in vulnerable places, more losses like those in the Philippines from storm - driven flooding are inevitable: / / j.mp / nytFlood

The only plausible approach is a stepwise policy, building from smart near - term steps that can be sold to many constituencies for many reasons (energy efficiency, boosting resilience to climate hazards in vulnerable places) toward the tougher ones.

«Our findings can help prioritize areas and species that might be at greater risk of extinction and that might require extra attention, conservation or management — protecting vulnerable species in vulnerable places.»

Further, it's in these vulnerable places we, the Church, have the privilege to remind survivors they are loved (John 3:16), known (Psalm 139) and welcome right where they are in their process (Romans 8:38 - 39).

Someone who calls a home insurance firm is usually in a vulnerable place — and sometimes in full - blown crisis mode — so it was essential that a touch of humanity was included.

If you're in a vulnerable place, and you're not sure how a friend will respond to your disclosure, then you may choose not to.

This especially true if your kids are in school, or someone in your household works in a vulnerable place like a hospital.

However, this openness puts most of us in a vulnerable place.

Not exact matches

That's a big problem in places crowded with the sick and physically vulnerable — especially hospitals.

Meanwhile, Cott has struggled to find its place in the rapidly changing beverage industry, and it's proven highly vulnerable to commodity prices, which affect its manufacturing costs and make earnings erratic.

The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

For example, one company said it could disable the vulnerable features; another said that it could slow down and stop the hacked car if it was in motion and a third said similarly that it would remotely place the car in a «fail - safe mode.»

Competition for wages and jobs will impact negatively on some existing residents, who may be more economically vulnerable in the first place.

He was alone and vulnerable and in the jungle you are really aware of how dangerous a place it is, particularly for young unaccompanied minors because of all the mafia that are there and the people trafficking that goes on.

Many of the most vulnerable seats House Republicans will have to defend in 2018 are in places like Orange County, California, or affluent suburban areas of New Jersey.

Cyber-security experts say businesses of all sizes can be vulnerable to attacks and hackers can manoeuvre their way into any site if the proper controls aren't in place to detect their snooping.

«With the touted «code - is - law» principle in Ethereum blockchain, there is no traditional well - known security response mechanism in place to remedy these vulnerable contracts!»

Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC) opened its doors in 1979 as an emergency shelter, a place for vulnerable adults living with behavioral health disorders and chronic homelessness to come in out of the cold for the night.

For example, they can't place as many trades in a day, and they are vulnerable to mistakes.

However, bitcoin can not be placed in the same category since it is not legal tender and has very few uses outside its trading zone, thereby making investors holding the currency that has zero value extremely vulnerable to potential risks.

The majority of schools were equipped with either impact - resistant windows or built - in storm shutters, and sandbags were placed around vulnerable areas.

The Brevard school district will spend the upcoming days preparing its 80 or so facilities throughout the county, placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, closing storm shutters, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and protecting computers.

These regulations are in place to protect vulnerable investors, but they come at a cost.

The district has spent the last few days placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and making sure computer labs are protected.

«In the aftermath of future floods, the federal government will continue to pay billions to rebuild these projects in the same vulnerable place and in the same vulnerable ways.&raquIn the aftermath of future floods, the federal government will continue to pay billions to rebuild these projects in the same vulnerable place and in the same vulnerable ways.&raquin the same vulnerable place and in the same vulnerable ways.&raquin the same vulnerable ways.»

On the contrary, it places them in a highly vulnerable position.

And in the wake of so many acts of senseless violence like those of Aurora, Colorado, Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon, we worry that we're never truly safe anymore — that we're vulnerable to tragedy at any second, that so much could be lost if we only find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

power is exercised over the weak and flat - out apologizing places people in a weak position as they make themselves vulnerable.

It goes straight to the emotions — in a place we may be vulnerable — loneliness that most people have experienced at one time or another — rather than seeking to appeal to our intelligence.

He is doing what he became a doctor for in the first place: helping others, and the most truly vulnerable at that: children.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

From the first, he took the unusual position that since a sick person is in a peculiarly vulnerable situation, the health - care delivery system should place as few extraneous demands upon the patient and his family as possible.

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

Thirdly, in the trend of ethical thinking we are investigating, it is characteristically assumed that what makes us aware of the self in the first place is just this double intrusion of death: the cry of the vulnerable other eliciting our preparedness to negate our own life.

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

It is both revealing and unfortunate that the one place we * ought * to be able to let our guards down, be transparent and vulnerable with other people, be encouraged and loved «warts and all» is the very place we feel the least comfortable exposing ourselves in such a way.

The best place and time to witness to someone involved in this is after the high is over and when the consequence of sin kicks in - because thats when a person feels the most vulnerable.

Amber sees counseling as «a special invitation by the people stepping into my office to sit with them in their most vulnerable places.»

The experience in Oregon confirms that laws permitting physician - assisted suicide corrode the practice of medicine and place vulnerable patients at risk.

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also, i think a big reason why people don't ask questions in church is because it is all to often not a safe place to be vulnerable... i say that from experience...

IRRI Director General Dr. Matthew Morell said that the institute will continue to work with the Bangladesh government to ensure collaborative and responsive programs for the rice sector are in place to meet the current and future needs of the country's rice industry, particularly for the vulnerable farmers and consumers.

This leaves our club in a bit of a vulnerable place and a less likely destination for top players and more importantly a top manager to replace Arsene.

Jose Mourinho's men, who are now 17 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and just two above 17th - placed Bournemouth, looked extremely vulnerable to the counter-attack in the first half.

Whether draxler or not arsenal is still a weaker team, is it something bad if we have both draxler and Sanchez in the same team fighting for places, just imagine van persie, Sanchez, ozil, carzola are in the same team, with likes of inform konsieny, mustafi, and konlansinic, and good holding midfider,... our problem with this 343 information or 3421 information apart from Wenger playing players out of position we don't have a strong holdmidfider that retrieve the ball back when we lost possession... Kant's is perfect example of that, look at the job he does at Chelsea is amazing...... without a good holding midfielder our defenders are vulnerable