Sentences with phrase «of dangerous activity»

Earlier this month, an appellate court in California issued a written opinion holding that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a young man killed while skateboarding was properly dismissed below because the young boy assumed the risk of the dangerous activity in which he was engaging when he suffered his fatal injury.

Those include suicide, death in war, death in a private plane or death as a result of a dangerous activity you participate in like hang - gliding, rock - climbing or car racing.

If you engage in any kind of dangerous activity, the training courses will often state that an accident is not the result of a simple error.

This article highlights some of the dangerous activities that can lead to problems that will likely not be covered under the LAWPRO policy.

Safe passing maneuvers, parking procedures, turning techniques, proper vehicle maintenance and pedestrian awareness are all part of the curriculum at a DMV traffic school online program, as well as identification of dangerous activities such as passenger behavior, driving when intoxicated or with insufficient sleep, and mobile phone usage.

Or perhaps does a minimum of dangerous activities.

Instead of paying attention to what they're doing behind the wheel and what is going on around them, these drivers engage in a number of dangerous activities.

The risk can be further compounded if the policyholder has had a stroke, suffers from heart disease or diabetes, smokes, or is fond of dangerous activities, such as skydiving.

It's increasingly rare for a term life insurance company to refuse to insure people because of dangerous activities or to include exclusions — other than suicide exclusions — in their policies.

Not exact matches

The governors of Oregon, Colorado, Washington and Alaska — where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal — wrote to Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in April, warning altering the memorandum «would divert existing marijuana product into the black market and increase dangerous activity in both our states and our neighboring states.»

Tasks that involve fine motor skills, dangerous activities, or focused concentration on routine tasks, are clearly not going to benefit from you having a couple of beers.

This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

«YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit content that's intended to encourage dangerous activities that have an inherent risk of physical harm,» said YouTube in a statement.

Using systemic risk scores that evaluated size, interconnectedness, substitutability, complexity, and cross-jurisdictional activities, JPMorgan came in with the most dangerous score of 5.05 for U.S. mega banks.

Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.

No activity of man is so potentially dangerous or rewarding, nor so uniquely human.

Robert T. Miller examines the morality of using unmanned robotic drones: Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others....

Writing and speaking theologically and naming the divine seem to me a most dangerous activity, for though we are quick to see the limitations of other religious groups or theologians, we fail to recognize our own limitations.

Stupid kids might have sneaked out to have a go in the actual west but the activity is not part of normal ranching life.We rode steers, cows, and yearly calves and that was dangerous enough.

In no event do we allow any advertising or marketing materials to depict individuals in states of intoxication, associate consumption of Purity Vodka with performing potentially dangerous activities such as operating heavy machinery, driving a motor vehicle, or participating in hazardous athletic activities, or make any claims that would indicate that Purity Vodka has any medicinal or magical properties.

All of these activities provide methods of exciting the body by making it respond to a dangerous situation, while the mind is certain that circumstances are safe.

When she was finally tagged in it was a flurry of activity, using her strikes, amateur wrestling and judo to put on a show in the ring and look like the most dangerous person in WWE.

The activities Dangerous Dads have offered — many of which are now regular events in the group's calendar — include:

Sports - Related Drug Testing: N.J.S.A. 18A: 40A - 23 (2005) allows boards of education to adopt a policy for the random testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33:1 - 1.

«Talking to your child about the activities, parts of their body and family information that should be kept private not only helps to prevent embarrassing situations, but is also essential in preventing dangerous situations from occurring,» says Triemstra.

Therefore this method of discipline should be used sparingly and only to prevent your child from engaging in dangerous activities.

What else might you suggest, that is something that almost everybody does (instead of being a freak activity) is more dangerous in someone's life after the age of 18?

Activities that are often part of your normal routine — eating sushi, coloring your hair or riding your bike — may be potentially dangerous when you're pregnant.

It should of course go without saying that any particularly dangerous activity, like driving, should still be illegal while high, to protect the smoker from such mistakes.

(5) the term «domestic terrorism» means activities that --(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended --

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

Asked at a meeting of the National Citizenship Service which he set up, whether any of his ministers needed to go on one of the outdoors activities that the NCS provides for youngsters he said: «If it involved crossing a very, very dangerous river on a raft, I can think of a few I'd want to strap together.»

The youths alleged that the activities of the herdsmen who they described as marauders were unbecoming because of the dangerous ways they carry out their activity.

«While public opinion polls have largely remained constant on fracking in recent years, Governor Cuomo's statement that he expects to make a decision in just 40 days — despite a lack of accessible science — has caused a marked shift in public opinion and overall interest in this dangerous activity.

Among them he says are the increasing dip in the credibility of the Electoral Commission, the constituency creation and boundary settings, the determination of who qualifies to vote especially following allegations of some foreign nationals on the voters» register, the bigger issue of financing the activities of the EC and national elections, ensuring sustainable peace and security before, during and after elections and the use of gate speech, inflammatory language and dangerous campaigning tactics.

In the study, the phage, called «CR5,» showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

The UCLA researchers, led by David Eisenberg, director of the UCLA - Department of Energy Institute of Genomics and Proteomics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, report the first application of this technique in the search for molecular compounds that bind to and inhibit the activity of the amyloid - beta protein responsible for forming dangerous plaques in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases.

Thus, chlorination can have important ecological functions related to the activity of microorganisms, such as dealing with dangerous oxygen radicals that form during metabolism, or being part of the chemical battle that the microorganisms are engaged in, in the competition for resources in the ground.

This is especially true of air strikes, by far the most dangerous military activity for civilians.

Observing the behaviors of dangerous and cryptic predators like alligators is no easy task, so scientists used animal - borne cameras to monitor alligators capturing prey and their other activities.

Moms were better able to sway a child's perception of risk when they explained the reasons an activity was dangerous and its possible consequences rather than just saying no.

«Regular physical activity and reduced sedentary time reduces build - up of dangerous liver fat.»

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Porto, Portugal (17 - 20 May) shows that both regular physical activity and avoiding inactivity (sedentary behaviour) help reduce build - up of dangerous liver fat, an important complication of obesity.

This slowing down of electrical activity put these hearts at greater risk of dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, such as atrial fibrillation.

In an effort to reign in the hype surrounding stem cell research that has led to a proliferation of unapproved and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently released updated guidelines outlining conduct for stem cell researchers that, for the first time, included communications activities.

With it the countries of the world have recognised that they all have to work together to tackle the shared problem of dangerous climate change caused by human activities.

A spacecraft placed at this point would effectively be able to monitor the sun from the side, spotting dangerous solar activity before that hemisphere of the sun rotates into view.

The idea: trigger immune activity within the brain itself to kill remaining tumor cells — the ones neurosurgeons can't take out, which make this type of tumor so dangerous.

This is extremely dangerous because the visceral fat (the kind inside the organs and blood vesicles) accumulates within the veins and arteries, narrowing the passage available for the blood and gradually obstructs the activity of the blood vessels.