Sentences with phrase «people at risk»

We believe this decision will put vulnerable people at risk of being forced into marriage.»

Up until recently, people at risk of stroke and blood clotting only had one highly - effective treatment option, warfarin.

The high capacity of trains put more people at risk during an accident.

Any error in judgment or equipment failure near train tracks puts people at risk of a catastrophic collision, which could be fatal to the driver and passengers.

Unfortunately, defective products put people at risk for physical and economic injury.

People who drive drunk put innocent people at risk, and they should be held accountable for their actions.

The mild climate and active lifestyles of our residents also place people at risk of becoming injured on another party's property.

Unfortunately, buying from restaurants and grocery stores can put people at risk of consuming contaminated food.

The men and women who work on the construction site are not the only people at risk of being injured in construction accidents.

The Crown believes the jail sentence was imposed by the court because Mr. Isnor was deliberately choosing to put people at risk.

found that many alarms bought in the UK, online, fail to comply with the BS EN 50291 safety standard, which means they can leave people at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning even if they have an alarm.

You are a disgusting person who is putting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people at risk because of the lies, distortions and misrepresentation of scientific facts you are repeating ad nauseam.

Global warming is likely to increase the number of people at risk of dengue epidemics by expanding both the area suitable for the mosquito vectors and the length of dengue transmission season in temperate areas.

How does my choice here perpetuate a system that leaves other people at risk?

In most settings, WHO recommends LLIN coverage for all people at risk of malaria.

The number of people at risk from coastal flooding could reach between 268 million and 286 million in 2030, globally (scenarios B and C, respectively).

Across 17 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa in 2017, below - average precipitation fueled droughts that put 38 million people at risk of not having enough food.

«We shouldn't add insult to injury after an oil spill by using dispersants that put wildlife and people at risk.

«Today, East Africa is experiencing a drought made worse by global warming, with more than 13 million people at risk.

So to be extra careful that the construction of the pipeline in an area like that wouldn't put the health and the safety of the American people at risk, our experts said that we needed a certain amount of time to review the project.

Grothmann, T. and Reusswig F. (2006), People at Risk of Flooding: Why Some Residents Take Precautionary Action While Others do not.

I'll argue that if you're one of the ~ 3M persons living in the Ben Tre and Long An provinces of Vietnam situated on the Mekong Delta, unsupported claims such as Lindzen's «The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal» is hardly a tight argument and is ethically extremely dubious, aimed as it is at paralyzing the public policy response necessary to protect those people at risk.

These efforts have caused electricity prices to increase dramatically in Europe causing fuel poverty and putting poor people at risk.

This information was then used to define the number of people at risk from hunger in developing countries.

The 2009 EPA endangerment findings took into account the public health implications of a warming climate caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which include more deaths from heat - related illnesses, more serious (and potentially fatal) respiratory illnesses, and more people at risk from catastrophic flooding.

This could include species extinctions and put millions of people at risk from drought, hunger and flooding.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

That would place 2 billion more people at risk of water shortages, and hundreds of millions more will face hunger, the report says.

Click on Wealth (under Background), then Historical (under Responsibility), and then People at Risk and Poverty (under Vulnerability), refreshing each time to get a sense of the United States» (and that of developed countries in general) relative role.

Even so, and starting with a worldwide baseline of 16 % undernourishment (people at risk from hunger) in 1990 (and about 14 % today), they forecast its prevalence to decline sharply by 2080, to about 1 % to 1.5 % in all other scenarios, and only 6 % for A2 (totally explained by the weird population assumptions in A2).

The estimated prevalence of undernourishment (or % people at risk from hunger) is statistically non significant at values below 5 % — due to variation in inter-personal dietary - energy needs and measurement error in food availability and distribution.

[Source: American Lung Association «State of the Air 2017: People at Risk In 25 Most Ozone - Polluted Cities»]

[Source: American Lung Association «State of the Air 2017: People at Risk In 25 Most Ozone - Polluted Cities»

Climate change will act as a hunger risk multiplier exacerbating current vulnerabilities, with one study projecting up to 20 % more people at risk of hunger.

Listing new challenges facing the humanitarian community, this technical document emphasizes that «climate change, population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, and food and water insecurity are leaving more and more people at risk of crisis.»

Warming of 3 C (5.4 F) would put many millions more people at risk of coastal flooding and lead to the loss of about 250,000 square km of wetlands and drylands.

Indeed, there are more than one billion hungry people in the world — and climatic changes threaten to significantly increase the number of people at risk of hunger and undernutrition.

Here is an industry which is putting the health of tens of thousands of people at risk.

In the Sub-Sahara countries, the Desert is moving southwards at an annual rate of 0.6 km., putting 35 million people at risk from the effects of desertification in northern Nigeria alone.

We expect this ongoing research will yield benefits not only for dogs at risk of developing DM and their owners, but also for people at risk of developing the human equivalent of DM.

Be aware of the potential for your horse to spread certain diseases to people at risk of being infected.

offer guidance and referrals to people at risk of surrendering their pet for financial reasons.

Don't leave him at a shelter where he might be frightened and confused and put other people at risk.

People at Risk People with compromised immune systems People with AIDS / HIV People on chemotherapy People on who have received organ or bone marrow transplants People who are elderly People born with congenital immune deficiencies Pregnant women (a fetus» immune system is not fully developed)

If your dog is aggressive with people or has ever bitten anyone unprovoked, then don't don't take him to a shelter where he might be frightened and confused and put other people at risk.

After that, Peter continues his talk with Charlie Richter, US Director of APOPO, which uses humanely trained giant pouched rats to detect tuberculosis bacilli in the sputum of people at risk of having TB.

After Sunday's demonstration, a Crufts spokesman said the protesters «scared the dogs and put the safety of both dogs and people at risk in a hugely irresponsible way.»

Meanwhile, for working - age people at risk of becoming low - income seniors, a targeted approach to retirement income security may be beneficial, says Frank Swedlove, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association.

They're putting people at risk.»

Developing and implementing programs and services for people with diabetes (self - management) and people at risk of diabetes (prevention).