Sentences with phrase «other in the toxic environment»

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Prescott is biracial and in her fifties, and she says the toxic environment fueled by demeaning comments made by her mostly male colleagues — and their behavior toward other women — eventually got to her.

Over the years, we have listened to our students and have received testimonies in written assignments and personal correspondence about the toxic sexual environment that this university and many others have harbored.

Legally speaking, Ross M. Cellino Jr. did not turn the other cheek, filing court papers accusing his estranged law partner Stephen E. Barnes of being a «bully» and creating a «toxic environment» in the Cellino & Barnes law firm that Cellino now wants dissolved.

This means that there is something special about the cell walls of this species of moss that allows them to thrive in environments that are toxic to other plants.

To test their idea, they raised the hybrid offspring of N. vitripennis and each of the other wasp species in a germ - free environment, eliminating any signs of gut bacteria that might be toxic to the wasps.

Some are known to be highly toxic to aquatic creatures, but little is known about whether they are actually harming frogs or other animals in the environment.

In a high - light, oxidizing environment, microcystin - producing cyanobacteria have a survival advantage over other forms of cyanobacteria that are not toxic.

Environmental factors such as maternal infection or exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy may heighten the risk in ways that aren't yet understood, and the environment may combine in other ways with genetic factors after birth to cause the condition.

Currently, silver nanoparticles are present in the environment at the concentrations that are about one in a thousandth times the dose that would be toxic to fish and other marine animals (23).

They are pesticides and other toxic chemicals used in the environment that are estrogenic in nature, that is; the body identifies them as estrogen and allows them to attach to estrogen receptor sites in the breast, and other areas.

Excessive inflammation can be escalated by other lifestyle factors in addition to diet, including lack of adequate sleep, stress, alcohol intake, a toxic living environment, substance abuse and medication.

Detox treatments are usually recommended due to exposure to toxic chemicals in the diet or environment, like synthetic chemicals, pollutants, heavy metals and other dangerous elements.

Because when you act in a toxic manner, you're only making the environment toxic for yourself, so why would you do that to yourself — and to others?

On the other hand, in a toxic school environment, «teacher relations are often conflictual, the staff doesn't believe in the ability of the students to succeed, and a generally negative attitude» prevails, notes Peterson.

Even though there's a risk of poisoning in an indoor environment as well, you're better able to remove toxic plants, toxic chemicals and other dangers in order to keep them out of your cat's reach.

After all, our cats, dogs and other companion animals live in a shared environment with us and are exposed to the same toxic substances in our homes and yards.

If your appointments are not the same day as the trapping, keep the cats indoors in their covered traps and make sure they are dry, in a temperature - controlled environment, and away from dangers such as toxic fumes, other animals, or people.

Keep the cats indoors in their covered traps and make sure they are dry, in a temperature - controlled environment, and away from loud noises or dangers such as toxic fumes, other animals, or people.

Every day, armies of young men, women, and children, deprived of any other job alternative, work in these toxic environments.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

A significant number of these products contain substances that may be harmful to the environment such as lead, cadmium, formaldehyde, CFCs in paint spray, and many other similarly toxic substances.

Prior to joining UCS in 2006, Ms. Stillerman served as deputy director of the Environment and Health Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, where for more than eight years she advocated for national and international policies to protect public health from pesticides and other toxic environmental pollutants.

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