Sentences with phrase «more immediate causes»

But the role of climate change in causing the drought itself is unclear — the more immediate cause is an intermittent weather pattern called La Niña, and research is still under way on whether that cycle is being altered or intensified by global warming, as some researchers suspect.

In this case, the Court determined that even though the conduct of another student pushing or falling into the plaintiff was a more immediate cause of the injury, the principal's decision to hold recess in the courtyard, with protruding bench - walls represented, materially contributed to the condition or situation that caused the harm.

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With celebrity endorsements and crowdfunding opportunities, global causes may «feel more immediate than the food bank down the road.»

«Guns don't kill people...» but the presence of a gun in a person's immediate environment has, in psychological experiments, caused frustrated people to have bloodier, more violent fantasies than the presence of a fishing rod.

Barr, an Englishman, far removed from American evangelicalism both geographically and theologically, illustrates his contention by discussing the perennial issues of Calvinism / Arminianism, Millennialism, and Pentecostalism have centered my thinking in this book on some of the more immediate theological controversies that are causing ferment in the evangelical world.

Team physicians, athletic trainers, and other personnel responsible for the medical care of athletes face no more challenging problem than the recognition, evaluation and management of concussions (generally defined as injury to the brain caused by a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the head that results in any immediate, but temporary, alteration in brain functions, such as loss of consciousness, blurred vision, dizziness, amnesia or loss of memory).

Each year in the United States, more than 4,500 infants die suddenly of no immediate, obvious cause.

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

The civil engineers suggest a list of highway improvements that could reduce that number, but a lack of funding causes the state to focus on the more immediate safety issues.

Ready to protect you against just about anything, this spray causes immediate irritation to the eyes and more when it is sprayed at anyone or anything.

The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health risk — especially outside the immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl.

Causes the blood supply to our muscles to open more allowing additional fuel to be pumped to the parts of our body we need the most, while simultaneously reducing blood flow to less critical organs such as our digestive and reproductive systems since we won't be needing these to escape the immediate threat.

A high fat meal causes more immediate fat storage than a high - carb meal.

«These causes should be identified and treated, and if necessary the students should be referred to specialists, at the same time as immediate strategies are implemented to help the student cope more effectively.»

Members openly advocate for setting the bar so high, students get a «cold shower,» causing a possible 60 % fail rate and the immediate transformation of 30 % or more schools into Ds and Fs.

While this can cause stress to various components, the more immediate concern is the amount of intrusive noise this creates within the passenger cabin.

This changes the throttle - mapping to serve up even more immediate responses, gives the exhaust an even nicer note and causes the driver's seat bolsters to tighten around the driver to provide even better lateral support.

Although one or more applications of an essential oil product or blend may not cause immediate harm, the effects of essential oils can be cumulative and manifest themselves at a later date in the form of toxicity for which owners and vets often can find no attributable cause.

Eating peanut butter can cause some more immediate health problems, too.

Dental radiographs are much more sensitive than standard «skull» x-rays which allows us to determine which tooth is causing the condition and allow for immediate resolution.

Sometimes vaccinations cause more serious side effects or allergic reactions that require immediate veterinary care.

My belief is that in making end - of - life decisions for your cat, you owe it to your friend to choose what will cause it the least pain and suffering — even if that means more immediate pain and sadness for you.

The high fat content in donuts can cause more immediate health problems, too.

Stings can cause mild symptoms like redness and swelling, or more serious reactions like anaphylaxis (allergic shock), which requires immediate veterinary attention.

Some of the immediate benefits changing from (high - quality / Science Diet) dried food to Ziwi Peak were: more energy, smoother and shinier coats, almost no need to drink water, smaller stools and the sinusitis that was causing watery eyes, disappeared in about a week.

[2][3][7] As extremes in a possible spectrum, [13] while some favour simply remarking on the immediate impressions caused by an artistic object, [2][3] others prefer a more systematic approach calling on technical knowledge, favoured aesthetic theory and the known sociocultural context the artist is immersed in to discern their intent.

In other words, after the immediate increase in temperature caused by a doubling of CO ₂ over 70 years, would the temperature necessarily continue to increase a certain (large or small) amount or could the more slowly acting feedbacks cause it to drop back in the longer term?

In this case, the immediate cause is most likely little more that the coincidental alignment of a tropical storm with an extratropical storm.

I have three immediate responses: Satisfaction in the great success of the collaboration, concern that this slightly increases worries about future sea - level rise from human - caused warming, but technical questions that may leave us more - or-less where we were before on the biggest picture.

This new report seems to agree on what is cause (higher temperature, through whatever means) and what is effect (increased CO2) but that the CO2 response is much more immediate.

... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global warming.

The 1,018 - page report convincingly and systematically challenges IPCC claims that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing «dangerous» global warming and climate change; that IPCC computer models can be relied on for alarming climate forecasts and scenarios; and that we need to take immediate, drastic action to prevent «unprecedented» climate and weather events that are no more frequent or unusual than what humans have had to adapt to and deal with for thousands of years.

In last night's post, we covered the call by a growing band of Australian Senators for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any more of these things — unless and until they've been exonerated, beyond all reasonable doubt, as the cause of a raft of noise related health effects suffered by wind farm neighbours; -LSB-...]

Back radiation causes more immediate evaporation and quicker reemission of LWR than does a similar amount of solar radiation.

But global warming can have the more pronounced and immediate effect of exacerbating existing environmental threats to agriculture, many of which are caused by industrial agriculture itself.

With all the immediate measures in place, Juncker outlines the foreign policy objectives of the EU as an effective means to «address the root causes» of the present crisis and suggests a more sustained and «assertive» presence in the EU's neighboring countries, beset with war and instability.

The immediate cause was its inability to obtain more than 1 per cent of the users going through family separation within a challenging time period set by the Dutch Legal Aid Board.

Although many collisions are minor and may cause little to no injury, accidents that leave one or more victims hospitalized or suffering from serious injuries require the immediate attention of an experienced lawyer.

Designed and implemented a standard data collection sheet capturing key product information that led to more immediate root cause identification and improved complaint resolution.

By answering the following questions you will be able to decide whether the violence in your family is being caused by the situation that you are in now and which is likely to stop when your circumstances change or whether it is something more serious that needs immediate action.