Sentences with phrase «people facing»

People facing cancer are often scared about what may happen.

Major crop losses have caused huge financial hits to farmers and left some 3.5 million people facing food shortages, the agency reported.

«Although we are still working to establish causality with Zika, we can not tolerate the prospect of more babies being born with neurological and other malformations, and more people facing the threat of paralysis due to Guillain — Barré syndrome.

The prevailing feeling among the researchers that Next Wave spoke to is that, if the law is approved, the next 10 years will see the university world thrown into mediocrity, populated by demotivated people facing a constant struggle for survival.

«We have to disrupt the system we've been using until now to deliver a system that can create much better outcomes for people facing cancer,» he said.

People facing mental health challenges are significantly more likely to have heart disease or stroke, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.

Garreau's last scenario, Prevail, extols the human knack for muddling through — «the ability of ordinary people facing overwhelming odds to rise to the occasion because it is the right thing.»

Psychologists at the University of Chicago found in past research that people facing such a dilemma while communicating in a foreign language are far more willing to sacrifice the bystander than those using their native tongue.

That is potential down - the - road good news for people facing vision loss from retinal diseases, such as macular degeneration that, alone, incurs costs exceeding $ 340 billion globally, according to the Brightfocus Foundation.

He introduces us to people facing radically altered senses of identity: an Alzheimer's patient whose life narrative erodes relentlessly; a woman whose schizophrenic world is filled with voices; a man who feels he must amputate his leg to feel whole.

Kenya is struggling to emerge from a drought that saw at least 10 million people facing starvation.

The researchers speculated that people facing stressful conflicts with others may respond violently to issues within their community, neglect private property, and be less inclined to take a stand against neighborhood decline.

That means people facing different depths of flooding were grouped together when ascertaining prices, even though they face different exposures to damage.

In his State of the State speech Wednesday Jan. 3, Gov. Andrew Cuomo moved to end cash bail for people facing misdemeanor and nonviolent felony charges as part of a criminal justice reform proposal package.

Mr. Smith, a 56 - year - old Democrat, and Mr. Halloran, a Queens Republican, were among about a half dozen people facing charges in the federal corruption case, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

This bill would create substantive alternatives to solitary confinement, place strict limitations on the use and permitted durations of confinement, and improve due process protections for people facing disciplinary infractions.

«Public Safety Telecommunicators are one of the most important links in the region's community security network by serving as the contact points for people facing emergencies at any time of the day or night who require police, fire or emergency medical services,» Picente said.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his Election Day hotline, 800-771-7755, will help people facing language issues, polling place barriers and other potential civil rights problems.

His arrest was part of a larger prostitution sting that, including Kavajecz, resulted in eight people facing charges and spanned several months.

At a recent immigration rights forum, Angela Fernández warned people facing deportation not to sign any forms or waive their rights.

The government's plan is simple: those who need extra support to find work can use something called the work programme and people facing higher barriers to employment can volunteer for the more specialised work choice programme.

Similarly, you can drop a ton into education without it showing appreciable impact on outcomes for 20 years as you need a whole generation of kids to grow through that upgraded system and into the workforce, and if the economy is depressed or the new jobs aren't there then you just have a bunch of better educated people facing hardship.

«If people facing discrimination and hatred in our society do not know their rights, or have support from the EHRC in enforcing them, then equality legislation will not be worth the paper it is written on.»

The cuts spell the end of free advice and legal support for people facing discrimination in society and at work, and an end to grants for community groups.

Cameron again tries to suggest it isn't a tax (it isn't but the difference doesn't amount to much for the people facing it).

The measure that Governor Cuomo is proposing would eliminate cash bail for people facing misdemeanor and nonviolent felonies.

Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, the two owners of COR Development, are among nine people facing charges related to an alleged pay - to - play scheme that helped them secure millions of dollars work of taxpayer - funded state contracts.

We are pleased that the social care needs of people facing the end of life are recognised in today's white paper.

For most of the people facing this problem the dilemma was solved by dropping their Labour identity entirely and shifting support to the SNP.

Katz said, noting the city needed a comprehensive plan to create more jobs and a dedicated program to keep people facing foreclosure in their homes.

Since 2010 the number of people facing homelessness across the UK has soared and «tent cities» have begun to spring up in other towns and cities.

He noted examples where he went to bat for a people facing potential deportation for an offense.

It also helps me now with other people facing similar difficulties.

The main new project for which we now need bread is Together We Rise, a new project to help people living with mental health issues, and some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people facing social exclusion, to benefit from the therapeutic, social and employment opportunities offered by Real Bread making.

Meanwhile, a bid to turn craft beer into clean drinking water for a million people facing water poverty has taken a another step forward for an Edinburgh - based social enterprise who have secured a listing with the Co-op.

I've got to deal with the problems I see all people facing; basically the problems of injustice in the black community.

His observations remind me of what I've witnessed so often when offering pastoral support to people facing minor, drip - drip troubles versus the great crises that bring larger energies into play.

Updike's fiction has been obsessed with death ever since his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, described a group of elderly people facing their slow doom in a nursing home.

He proposes a more balanced reflection on the significance for life on earth of the forces involved in disasters and on what we can do to protect and support people facing such disasters.

We must help people facing physical dependency, and give good end - of - life care for all who need it.

As he heard the speaker describe the anxiety and resistance of basically affluent people facing death after a comfortable life, he could think only of the many people he knew, like his parents and relatives, who suffer so much so unjustly.

War and a collapsing economy has left around 100,000 people facing starvation and a further one million... More

The important thing in pastoral care with people facing moral crises is neither to pretend we can be morally neutral nor to pronounce moralisms; rather, it is to discern with people as they engage their life issues.

Locate those agencies within the community that are able to provide resources to people facing a particular crisis.

Guy Esnouf, npower's Director of Corporate Responsibility, said expanding the Fuel Bank scheme would enable them the reach thousands more people facing a crisis.

If you are like most people facing retirement, you are figuring out how to generate enough income in retirement and feel confident that it will last as long as you need it to.

The bitcoin community has long been known for its generosity, as seen from its outpouring of support for ALS research and outreach for people facing homelessness.

United States Under Trump, prosecutors fight reprieves for people facing deportation, Reuters FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter, The Guardian

Michaud is one of 137 people facing U.S. charges after the FBI in February 2015 seized the server for Playpen, a child porn website on the Tor network, which is designed to allow anonymous online communication and protect user privacy.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.