Sentences with phrase «little protection against»

Because bicyclists and pedestrians have little protection against the weight and size of motor vehicles, accidents commonly result in traumatic injuries and even fatalities.

Esp when FCF as a % of Revenue is so low like all of the above — very little protection against their debt / pension deficit backdrops

If you sell ebooks on your own (like many Internet marketers), then you have very little protection against rampant returners.

Amazon's Policies If you sell ebooks on your own (like many Internet marketers), then you have very little protection against rampant returners.

«Unless you're a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you're one illness away from financial ruin in this country,» says lead author Steffie Woolhandler, MD, of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Mass. «If an illness is long enough and expensive enough, private insurance offers very little protection against medical bankruptcy, and that's the major finding in our study.»

The seasonal - flu vaccine may even offer a little protection against swine flu, according to some experts.

Professor Rakotonirainy, from QUT's Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety — Queensland (CARRS), has researched the security systems of existing fleet, future autonomous and connected cars and found there was little protection against hacking.

They were forced to make their escape in two open boats, with very little protection against the elements.

Any mutation that offered even a little protection against those pathogens had a chance to be favored by natural selection.

Aluminum has always been the primary material in spacecraft construction, but it provides relatively little protection against high - energy cosmic rays and can add so much mass to spacecraft that they become cost - prohibitive to launch.

The planet's magnetic field offers little protection against the sun's deadly rays.

The minimum deposit may look tempting, but just know that it will offer slower profit growth and little protection against losses.

«So maybe this is a little protection against a long position in the EEM.»

Not exact matches

A little thought about natural law makes clear that there is no other species than man so endowed with the possibilities of its own protection and thoughtful promulgation; no other species that can display such a reverence for life that it can fight against the dying of the light; no other that can so protect its weakest, most vulnerable members.

«He battled manfully, generally against three centre - backs on his own, with very little help or protection,» Nevin wrote in his piece on the club's official website.

As baby begins to cruise around the house they will need a little extra protection against slips.

These antibodies are then passed on to the baby through breast milk, thereby offering the little one a great measure of protection against sickness.

The GoodNites brand offers superior nighttime protection against leaks and keeps your little princess up to 40 % drier than other leading training pants.

He says the sandbags provide little to no protection against that threat.

«The city's kind of negotiating against itself in order to sort of play ball a little bit in the hopes that the state will give them the protections that they asked for,» he told the room.

However, drug resistance is common, and little protection is provided against further infections.

In the present study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the scientists from Mainz and Jena showed that the protective symbiosis between beewolves and their bacterial partners has not only existed since the Cretaceous (see also our press release, «Faithful allies since the Cretaceous,» April 15, 2014); moreover, the antibiotic protection offered by the bacteria against pathogens has changed very little since it evolved about 68 million years ago.

Type 2 diabetes is a significant global health problem impacting over 400 million adults in 2015, and although legumes have long been thought to provide protection against type 2 diabetes, there's been little research up to now to confirm this association.

Since vitamin K1 is preferentially delivered to the liver rather than to other tissues, this may be why vitamin K1 at doses found in the diet offers little if any protection against cancer.

Nanobacteria use the little calcium blocks to form hard shells of Ca + phosphate as protection against the body's immune system.

Each gram of mushroom reduces chance of breast cancer by several percent, says meta - study The meta - study does make the theory that mushrooms offer protection against breast cancer a little more likely.

A diet rich in lycopene gives your skin a little added protection against the sun's harmful rays.

These powerful little berries are also considered as the most powerful foods in the battle against cervical cancer as they may even have the ability of offering powerful protection in the battle against other types of cancer ailments.

The homemade ointments and salves that I use (recipe can be found in my eBook) contain coconut oil because it gives a little added protection against microbial infections.

Offering optimal protection against insects, the Cybex Priam Mosquito Net is a handy travel accessory that keeps flying bugs or creepy crawlies from dampening your strolling jaunts with your little one.

The Canadian Edition The Little Black Book of Scams Your guide to protection against fraud.

I'm not arguing against a reasonable and light regulatory framework, I'm just suggesting that higher levels of regulation provide little or no additional political protection.

The lack of security on e-readers means that there is little to no protection against malware or viruses.

The Nexus 7 offers a little more protection against the occasional drop, thanks to its Gorilla Glass treatment.

Choosing to invest little or none of your retirement stash in stocks may give you more protection against dips and dives in the market.

If there is any kind of inflation worth really protecting yourself against then one thing you will notice at its onset is a divergence in the price of physical and GLD; with GLD offering very little protection if any against inflation.

Borrowers already have very little consumer protections to defend themselves against the predatory behavior of student loan servicers.

The thoughtful, detailed analysis and judgment of the proposed move by the federal government to create a national securities regulator shows how little improvement there really is likely to be for the individual investor in solving key problems: high fees for mutual funds, costly access to government of Canada securities, lack of fiduciary responsibility by the industry towards investors, inadequate civil court recourse against misbehaving financial firms, priority given to financial system protection over investor interests.

In contrast, high - quality fixed income investments such as government bonds, virtually eliminate this risk altogether, but offer little or no protection against inflation.

While nature provides hairy feet to some pets for protection against ice, the hair can allow buildup of little ice balls between the toes, causing the pet to chew at his feet, possibly ingesting the de-icer through which he has walked.

Littleton has made a powerful statement about how little it regards citizen's Rights and our Constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

The lawsuit against Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers was filed Tuesday in Madison County Circuit Court, accusing the company of violating the state's Consumer Protection Act by charging $ 18,000 to $ 27,000 for 3 - month - old Labrador retriever puppies that were unable to perform their task and had apparently received little or no training.

These benefits should encourage you to groom you dog a little more often then needed: Protection and Defense Your dog's fur is not just for cuddling, in fact it is their body's first and most important line of defense against water, weather, skin disorders and attacks from other animals.

Our multi-card protection RFID blocking cards are exceptionally thin and add little to no bulk to your wallet while providing complete protection against RFID scanners.

We also wore chaps so when you get slammed up against something you have a little protection and additionally to avoid rope burns.

It is rather part of an ideology that they are attempting to sell which would harm humans, particularly less affluent humans, and ultimately result in less environmental improvement and less protection against the only realistic climate change we really need to fear — a new Little Ice Age or ultimately even a new ice age.

When accidents do happen, riders frequently suffer injuries as the result of the little protection they have against larger vehicles.

A brief look at the Court's case - law on the privilege against self - incrimination, in Orkem as well as in more recent cases, shows that legal persons at times benefit from little protection.

Whilst I am sure there is little sympathy for senior executives earning large sums in our biggest corporations, the fact is that with the cap on unfair dismissal compensation, in reality, there is no such thing as employment protection for those individuals against unfair dismissal.

Continuing on his meme of a few weeks ago, blogfather Volokh takes a long look at Sweden's incomplete protection for free speech (in this case, a «hate speech» against homosexuality), and provides a little historical perspective for a logic - based (and refreshingly non-PC) reality check: