Sentences with phrase «leading culprit in»

I'm not particularly opposed to them, I'm pretty crop - top neutral, but everywhere I turn they've being decried as the main roadblock to world peace, the work of the devil and the leading culprit in the sexualisation of our poor, misguided youth, second only to cut - off shorts.

International was the leading culprit in Class 6's 19.7 % drop.

Coal - fired power plants are the nation's top source of carbon dioxide emissions - a leading culprit in climate change.

A leading culprit in the development of childhood tooth decay is a baby's bottle, dentists say.

With nearly 60 % of sales for technology companies coming from overseas, the dollar has become a leading culprit in poor earnings.

Since 2005, soda sales have dropped steadily, as more and more evidence points to sugar as the leading culprit in North America's obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Not exact matches

Only a quarter of rank - and - file employees who took part in the survey said they'd done the same, leading Stroz Friedberg to conclude that executives are more likely to be the culprit of a security breach than those farther down the corporate ladder.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

Lead paint in Buffalo's old housing stock is cited as the chief culprit.

One big culprit is rainwater that is captured in roof gutters that then flows through a downspout that is connected into a drain leading to a sanitary sewer.

Also, the PRO in charge of the state NYSC, Abdullahi Yuguda, said, «We applaud the role played by security agencies in Bakassi, which led to the arrest of the culprit.

Lead paint is considered the culprit, but the crisis in Flint, Michigan, has raised questions about the safety of the drinking water in cities like Buffalo.

Usually, state health departments rely on standard questionnaires to find a common culprit for a cluster of reported illnesses, says Samuel Crowe, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, who led the study.

Studies suggest that stem cells sustain deadly tumors in the brain — and that aiming at these insidious culprits could lead to a cure

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

At the University of Southern California, researchers have isolated the two proteins in the Zika virus that seem to be the culprits «that block normal fetal brain development,» says Jae Jung, the study's lead author and a microbiologist at USC's Keck School of Medicine.

«The main exposure culprit appears to be the lead used in the primer of bullets,» Filippelli said.

In the study in Mechanics of Ageing and Development, neuroscience Professor Anne Hart, lead author Edward Anderson and colleagues identify the human chemotherapy drug FUdR as the culpriIn the study in Mechanics of Ageing and Development, neuroscience Professor Anne Hart, lead author Edward Anderson and colleagues identify the human chemotherapy drug FUdR as the culpriin Mechanics of Ageing and Development, neuroscience Professor Anne Hart, lead author Edward Anderson and colleagues identify the human chemotherapy drug FUdR as the culprit.

In their 50 - page report to MLB, the researchers, led by U.S. Forest Service engineer Dave Kretschmann, pinned blame squarely on two culprits: the type of wood (maple) and the cut of the grain.

While the lead contamination was measureable, the team says the levels were unlikely high enough to be harmful, ruling out tap water as a major culprit in Rome's demise.

Why it matters: Salmonella is a leading cause of food - borne illness and is the culprit bacterium in high - profile food recalls, such as peanut butter in 2008/2009 and the current one of ground turkey that has led to 77 illnesses and one fatality reported in the United States to date.

Stress and money troubles associated with being a single mom are likely the main culprits, says the lead author of the study, Kristi Williams, PhD, an associate professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, in Columbus.

The SAD GAS foods are the biggest culprit when it comes to bloat: Soy (estrogen - like effects that contribute to bloating and weight gain); Artificial sweeteners (incomplete absorption in the small intestine leads to fermentation by colonic bacteria and lots of gas and bloating); Dairy (more than half the world is lactose intolerant, and that may include you!)

The biggest culprit of wrist pain is poor thoracic, scapular, and shoulder mobility leading to an ineffective rack position (more on this position in a future post).

Sugar is the hidden culprit to heart disease which we have been led to believe is harmless in «moderation».

Antibiotics and a processed diet are two big culprits that can lead to a gut imbalance in the modern world.

(Keep in mind that the leading cause of recurrent ear infections is an intolerance to dairy products and many children get relief by simply removing the culprit.)

Oscar clip: In one of the film's final moments, Shannon pays a visit to Elisa's best friend and colleague Zelda (Octavia Spencer) threating her to provide him with crucial information that will lead him to a culprit he's been long following.

Rupert Friend is passable in the leading role, but the screenplay is the main culprit behind this shoddy piece of filmmaking — whilst trying to provoke our sympathies as to the plight of the Georgian people, the script has Val Kilmer proudly proclaiming that war is like a «toothless whore».

NHTSA has reported that the shifter confusion has been the culprit in 117 alleged crashes that led to 28 injuries.

Hardboiled detectives and private investigators are a mainstay of the mystery genre, but sometimes a surprising figure takes the lead in solving a crime or catching a culprit.

Salleo's group led a multidisciplinary team of researchers in making a systematic study of a likely culprit of the inconsistent transistor performance in polycrystalline devices: the «grain» boundaries between crystals.

Fruits in general are high in sugar and can lead to blood glucose issues, but the main culprits to watch out for are grapes and raisins.

We've sat down with Mario Kotlar, Project Lead on The Talos Principle VR, a VR aficionado that has preordered every headset imaginable (except for one) and perhaps the main culprit for Croteam's involvement in VR.

Sex workers permeate Chelsea Culprit's oeuvre — whether represented literally like in the case of her oversized figurative sculptures, or more symbolically as in the case of her high - heeled shoes cast in lead crystal glass.

It states that the eruption that caused led to the frost ring formation was Krakatoa (or a precursor), but in actual fact, there is no positive identification of the volcano (or indeed volcanoes if there were more than one culprit), that caused the climatic dislocation.

We at Earth in Brackets are most definitely culprits of incomplete messaging ourselves, but we now know enough to at least be aware of this in the time leading up to the next COP.

the culprit acts or omissions which led to the failure to provide necessaries of life were a marked departure from the conduct of a reasonably prudent person in similar circumstances, and

the culprit acts or omissions which led to the failure to provide necessaries of life were a marked departure from the conduct of a reasonably prudent person in similar circumstances, and it was objectively foreseeable that the failure to provide necessaries would lead to a risk of danger to the life or permanent endangerment to the health of the person to whom the duty is owed.