Sentences with phrase «often lethal»

His Ethical Oil is an eye - opening companion to my own Eco-Imperialism, which chronicles the often lethal misdeeds of other self - righteous pressure groups.

While corals can recover from mild bleaching, severe or long - term bleaching is often lethal.

The core shooting mechanics feel solid, and there's a sense of danger that's portrayed well by the simple fact that sticking your head out of cover is often lethal.

Driss and Khalid had bickered endlessly over trivial matters; gritty desert winds had pushed the temperature at times to more than 100 degrees; Berber tribals had taken us for insurgents and threatened us; and a flash flood — the summer bane, often lethal, of the High Atlas — had trapped us for a night on a mountain ledge.

A relative humidity below 50 % is often lethal.

A plasma transfusion is sometimes given to dogs in moderate to severe cases in the hopes that it will inhibit active pancreatic enzymes and systemic inflammatory response; it also provides clotting factors that can help prevent and treat disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), an often lethal potential side effect of pancreatitis.

Humane for the felines, yet often lethal for the fauna.

You'll need to keep your skills sharp and your thumbs twitchy as you launch, flip and tumble your fragile and OFTEN LETHAL cargo through nightmarish terrain and deadly pitfalls.

If the thin wires running to the chambers of the heart detect ventricular fibrillation — an often lethal arrhythmia — the ICD will unleash a burst of electricity to force the heart back into rhythm.

Researchers searching for ways to combat the highly contagious, often lethal smallpox virus have a powerful new tool: a detailed picture of the enzyme the pathogen uses to maintain its DNA in a...

This raises the question of why such a potentially devastating, often lethal disease is still hanging around plaguing humanity.

A mutation in the gene encoding fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) has been associated with two types of skeletal dysplasia, thanatophoric dysplasia (TD), a skeletal dysplasia that cause serious respiratory problems at birth and is often lethal, and achondroplasia (ACH), which causes stunted growth and other complications throughout life.

In the US, such diagnosis has caused controversy, but in the UK the problem is the ultra-conservatism of the bulk of the medical profession in failing to identify and treat bipolar, an often lethal illness, until early adulthood.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report in which it explored the cause of death of a premature infant who had contracted a Cronobacter sakazakii infection - a rare, but often lethal illness.

No matter how good you are as a person, the universe continues in an impersonal and often lethal way.

For those without a plan, however, the impact of a lengthy resolution time is often lethal.

Not exact matches

But even the biggest booster of breaks in the world might be shocked by a new Wharton study showing that, in some contexts, failing to step away often enough can actually be lethal.

For decades, Fouad, a man of genius I was honored to call a friend, was an invaluable mentor in matters involving the Arab world and its often - lethal discontents.

In particular, people who could get together with their fellow citizens, as the need arose, often with virtually no notice, to fend off potentially lethal or oppressive forces USING THEIR OWN GUNS.

In an unfallen world it would always have been welcomed with joy, but the reality of sin means that it is most often heard either with a sadness borne of honesty that leads to repentance and peace, or else by a shrug of dismissive indifference and then by bitter and angry rejection — well, the Lord spoke frankly about the lethal danger that lay down that road!

Can we ignore the fact that heavy war materiel of every sort, including the most lethal offensive weapons, have been brought into Ukraine by Russia, often under the guise of «humanitarian aid»?

Researchers in Sweden have discovered that eating more fruit could lower risks for an often - lethal form of aortic aneurysm.

Koalas are often given antibiotics to treat a lethal strain of chlamydia, but the medicines often kill the koalas by wiping out friendly bacteria in their guts

It gets better: the lethal dose is often delivered in the first feeding.

Americans were ordered to wear masks to try to slow the spread of the disease, which often progressed rapidly — sometimes in as little as two days — to a lethal form of pneumonia.

Where they can, prosecution teams often try to repeatedly expose juries to shocking crime scene and autopsy photographs of murder victims or the aftermath of lethal accidents.

Some of the algae, or phytoplankton, manufacture saxitoxin, a poison so devastating it is the underlying cause of paralytic shellfish poisoning, an often - lethal reaction to shellfish that are storing toxic algal cells.

In contrast, lethal gassing will often bring on distressing breathlessness before permanent loss of consciousness, and death by electrocution may cause extreme pain.

The varied and subtle symptoms of this potentially lethal disorder humble many who scale the summits.But the problem is often preventable

Eating food or drinking water contaminated by shiga - producing bacteria typically causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloody diarrhea, and the microbes can be lethal, often by damaging the kidneys so severely that the organs shut down.

The team had also hoped that the fungus would become less virulent — as often occurs when a pathogen reaches a new host that lacks any immunity — but that hasn't happened: Fungal spores taken from the last fire salamanders in the Belgian forest, when dripped onto the backs of healthy salamanders in the lab, were just as lethal as those collected early in the outbreak.

Hypertension is called the «silent killer» because its lack of symptoms can often have lethal results for those who go on to experience heart attack or stroke.

Storm surges have been particularly lethal in low - lying river deltas, which often are heavily populated.

«Lung cancer is one of most lethal cancers and prognosis for patients is often poor, with only about 15 percent surviving more than 5 years,» says Inder Verma, Salk's American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and lead author of the paper.

Often called «bubble boy disease,» SCID devastates the immune system and leaves patients vulnerable to lethal infections.

The findings, published online Dec. 12, 2006, in the journal PLoS Medicine, may help define a target for screening and early diagnosis for this often - lethal cancer.

As p38 activation is often associated with IL - 1β signaling, and IL - 1β can also induce IL - 22 in ILC3s, we also examined the effect of lethal toxin on IL - 1β - mediated activation of ILC3s.

Pigmentation and the pigment cell form an ideal system for genetic analysis of a developmental system, since pigmentary mutations are readily detected and most often are not lethal.

But often it isn't, and the clot can break off and travel to the lungs, where it cuts off the oxygen supply and can be lethal.

Fructose tests can be useful but are often neglected because fructose won't be lethal immediately.

One favorite pastime of the children was swimming in the extremely hazardous irrigation ditches, in the swift currents that often carried potentially lethal objects along the stream.

Homemade diets and commercial BARF diets are often demonstrable unbalanced and have severe nutritional deficiencies or excesses.16 - 18 Dogs have been shown to acquire and shed parasitic organisms and potentially lethal infectious diseases associated with raw meat, including pathogenic strains of E. coli and Salmonella.25 - 27 Many other pathogens have been identified in raw diets or raw meat ingredients, and these represent a risk not only to the dogs fed these diets but to their owners, particularly children and people with compromised immune systems.29 - 30 The bones often included in such diets can cause fractured teeth and gastrointestinal diseases, including obstructed or perforated intestines, and the FDA recently warned pet owners against feeding bones to their canine companions.

Often there is nothing that can be done to stop the sweep of this lethal virus.

The «lethal white» gene that results in hearing and vision defects is not actually lethal, but is called so because white Aussies are often euthanased by breeders due to their risk of passing on defective genes or developing hearing and vision problems.

Match these qualities with an owner who encourages aggressiveness, and account for their incredibly strong jaw — often called a «lock jaw» for its ability to clamp onto something with its teeth and not let go — and a pit bull can become a lethal menace that makes the front page.

Additionally, public support for lethal measures is often lacking.

If you let them out to hop in the yard, very often your neighbors will have used pesticides, which will leach over into your lawn, could be lethal for your rabbit.

Contrary to what's often suggested, Hurley explained, this isn't lethal control at all, but lethal non-control.

The disease is often fatal, and is especially lethal to young dogs.

In Huangshan (Yellow Mountain, Anhui province), paths are built into vertical sides of the mountain and are incredibly narrow, the steps are uneven and uncomfortably steep, the railings are too short and the drops are often sheer and lethal.