Sentences with phrase «of winter deaths»

Influenza alone can not explain the number of winter deaths in the UK, but it would be interesting to see whether it can explain them in those many northern European countries with much lower winter death rates.

The Green Party says fuel poverty is causing a high number of winter deaths due to people living in the cold.

The lack of socioeconomic gradient in particular has implications for public heath policies aimed at reducing the burden of winter death, as fuel poverty relief alone may be only partially successful.

Not exact matches

The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.

Cause of death: Howard's skull is crushed by a brainwashed Winter Soldier, who then strangles Maria.

In fact in the winter of 1932 up to 6 million Ukrainians were forcibly starved to death by the Judeo Bolsheviks; Hitler doesn't come to power until 1933.

In the winter of 1932 the Jewish Bolsheviks forcibly starved to death up to 6 million people in the Ukraine.

Some of the earliest American settlers from Europe, the first Pilgrims in Massachusetts, also thought so — until nearly all of them starved to death by the end of the first winter.

These are the days when the death of winter, the stripping away of it all, is humming towards the renewal of spring and we can feel it, feel it right from the dirt and the water, the trees and the very air — life is coming, blooming, and God, it's beautiful.

Some treatments attempting to raise consciousness on the ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture of nuclear winter or the extent of death and destruction that will occur after such an event.

But I have talked to people who own sheep, and they say that they doesn't let his sheep out of the barn during the winter, because the baby sheep will freeze to death.

Ten deadliest natural disasters of the past century 1931 China floods 1976 Tangshan earthquake 1970 Bhola cyclone 1920 Haiyuan earthquake 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 2010 Haiti earthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake 2008 Cyclone Nargis 1991 Bangladesh cyclone 1948 Ashgabat earthquake Blizzards 1972 Iran blizzard 2008 Afghanistan blizzard Great Blizzard of 1888 1993 North American Storm Complex Schoolhouse Blizzard Hakko - da Mountains incident Armistice Day Blizzard 2008 Chinese winter storms 1995 Kazakh Blizzard Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 Communicable diseases Black Death Spanish Flu Plague of Justinian Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague Antonine Plague Asian Flu Other deadly communicable diseases.

So did the first generation of American settlers, he warns us, «until nearly all of them starved to death by the end of the first winter.»

Astonishingly, then, in this concept, death is not simply evil any more than winter is evil in the passing of the year.

The Psalms leave those who pray them with a winter radiated by awareness of the divine power over both death and life.

I hope it's not death, I hope it's gestation of winter sleep but whatever it is, I'm feeling the failure of it, the loneliness of it.

Thus sin appears in a Reinhold Niebuhr boomlet as the note of Christian realism needed in social ethics; ignorance receives attention through «the epistemological privilege of the poor» or an action hermeneutics; death is addressed in the issue of nuclear winter.

Growing up in dark, drippy, soulful Oregon winters, I'd watch the death of January conquer, year after year, the once free - flowing and wild Willamette River.

The Jewish festivals of Passover and Unleavened Bread, which later became the Christian Easter, originated as early spring festivals celebrating the resurrection of nature to new life after the death of winter.13 The Feast of Pentecost began as the early harvest festival, the Jewish Feast of Booths as the vintage festival, Christmas as a New Year festival to mark the passing of the shortest day and the return of the sun.

Astrological religions equate this deity with Capricorn, which is the sign of the zodiac that indicates winter solstice, the death of the previous year and the rebirth of the new year.

In Babylonia it was Tammuz, in Syria Adonis, in Egypt Osiris, in Canaan Baal, in Greece Persephone, whose death was marked by the falling leaves of autumn, whose imprisonment in the underworld of death explained the winter, and whose release by the gods of the underworld for one reason or another made possible the spring revival.

Some attempts to raise consciousness about the ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture of nuclear winter or the extent of death and destruction that can occur.

Pipe — And the Sun dies every winter, then after three days of death it is reborn and rises again; only to die the following winter... and so on, and so on.

It refers to the movement toward faith that grapples with pain, uncertainty, evil, loss, and the mystery of death to discover «hope on the winter - fallow landscape.»

He died of the stone... The signs of his death were a rainbow which Melancthon and I saw one evening last winter over Lochau [a residence of the Elector], and a child born here at Wittenberg without a head, and another with feet turned round.»

I have been dying to plant some apricot trees, but we are RIGHT on the line, where the trees will probably not freeze to death in the winter, but most summers the blossoms would probably succumb to frost: (But I just love them so much I'm pretty sure I'm going to plant some dwarfs near the house where they will be out of the frost pocket and where I can cover them if need be.

The harsh winters allow for the natural death of organic plant life that returns nutrient rich organic matter to the soil each year.

Probably because to me, berries mean summer, and summer is my favorite time of year, hands down (besides Christmas, obviously, but otherwise winter = death).

A friend of mine tells how his mother, after the death of his father, has taken to shoveling snow this winter, a fact that endlessly worries him but which she proudly recounts in her letters.

Although considered a relatively mild winter, with late January and February temperatures above average, the devastatingly cold weather experienced from late November through to early January saw the number of deaths rise above the national average, peaking during the first week of January 2011 with almost 3500 more deaths than the five - year average for that time of year.

Some 25,000 unnecessary winter deaths occurred last year with the overwhelming majority of these being the elderly and the most vulnerable in society.

Excess winter deaths are defined by the Office for National Statistics as the difference between the number of deaths during the four winter months (December to March) and the average number of deaths during the preceding autumn (August to November) and the following summer (April to July).

Jenny Saunders, Chief Executive at NEA said: «This number of excess winter deaths was sadly expected.

This winter, some will freeze to death in the darkest corners of our towns and cities.

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Cold homes due to fuel poverty, especially in deprived communities, are one of the most critical causes of excess winter deaths.

The government has warned that the number of deaths from the virus this winter in the UK could reach between 19,000 and 65,000.

He will take over NYRA at a time of heightened scrutiny about the health and safety of thoroughbred horses and their riders, particularly after a rash of equine deaths during the winter meet at Aqueduct this year.

The task force was appointed by Governor Cuomo following a spate of horse deaths at the winter meet at Aqueduct.

Tragically, this winter has already seen the deaths of two infants which have been attributed to an unsafe sleep environment.

Singer, founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, concludes that since global warming would raise maximum summer temperatures modestly while raising winter minimum temperatures significantly, it «should help reduce human death rates.»

So Schwartz and his colleagues calculated average summer and winter temperatures in New England zip codes for 8 years, and tracked the deaths of elderly people living within them, based on Medicare data.

The results showed a higher risk of hospitalization or death in the winter period of the year (October to April) compared to the summer period (May to September).

The injury will also increase the rover's risk of freezing to death in the coming winter.

But if a greater number of deaths occurred due to emergency vehicle delays caused by bad winter weather, the present estimates could be a conservative tally.

The death rate for the most recent winter, October 2013 through April 2014, was better than the 30.5 percent loss reported for the winter of 2012 - 2013, but worse than the 21.9 percent in 2011 - 2012, the report said.

High speed and athlete inexperience are top contributing factors to injuries and accidents on the Whistler sliding track, according to a UBC study conducted following the death of an athlete during a training run before the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

One result of global warming is wetter winters in the monarchs» Mexican environs, which make it easier for them to freeze to death, according to the environmental group Defenders of Wildlife.

The study found no real effect of winter weather in recent years on adult survival, however cold and wet autumns were associated with a higher death rate.