Sentences with phrase «risk of sacrificing»

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

Jason Hall's directorial debut, Thank You For Your Service takes a gripping look at how young men and women who serve their country are put through the trauma of war, in grave risk of sacrificing their lives, and are then expected to return...

We are going into war upon the command of gold; we are going to run the risk of sacrificing millions of our countrymen's lives in order that other countrymen may coin their life blood into money.

There's a very personal question about how much to sacrifice now for less risk of sacrifice in the future.

Not exact matches

The career path of an entrepreneur is tough — it involves a lot of hard work, sacrifice and risk, and it can be very lonely.

I have been acutely aware, every single day, of the financial risk and sacrifice my wife and kids took with me because they believed I would succeed.

Geolocation and Your Privacy When you leave your home, you inevitably sacrifice some of your privacy; and by sharing your location on social networks, you could put yourself at some increased level of risk.

Do they follow suit and see their margins squeezed, or hold fast and risk sacrificing sales in one of the few areas of the food industry that's actually growing?

The prudent use of leverage can help investors employ more risk efficient portfolios without necessarily sacrificing potential returns.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

Borrowing from the Hippocratic oath «First, do no harm», the key for someone who is willing to sacrifice the prospect of higher return for assurance of safety, is to focus solely on legitimate high yield returns and ignore the higher risk options available.

A more balanced policy mix might also avoid some of the costs of very low interest rates, such as potential risks to financial stability, without sacrificing jobs and growth.

We don't truly realize the depth of sacrifice and risk this was for the Polziec family.

When a Council sets itself a task of that kind, it is inevitable that there will be surprises, that what is dear and well - tried will be sacrificed, that experiments will be risked and innovations introduced, the ultimate consequence of which no one can foresee with certainty.

When God asks for big steps of risk in the areas of humility, sacrifice, or love — I need to go first.

Under this criterion, questions of proportionality are properly considered: Do the benefits outweigh the risks and harms attendant to warfare, including such potential costs as further geopolitical destabilization, increased insecurity, the sacrifice of other important values in the midst of war, the loss of life and resources?

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

It is one of the puzzles of history that a group of people who believed in Au and had made great sacrifices for his sake, who knew him to be right and his enemy wrong, and who had even risked their lives by going into battle for him should desert him and even take up their swords against him.

And from the outset — we owe this to him too — we must recognize that such an enterprise will demand sacrifices: we must face the risk of heresy, and even the likelihood that we shall have to shed our own theological blood.

In my 9 moves over 4 years, I have tasted the great american church, and my conclusion is that bodies / bucks / buildings still remains the guiding factors for many of our churches todays instead of sacrifice / risk / faith for Christ that is necessary for growth and change.

It had made him devote the rest of his life, at the cost of immense risk and suffering, to the one task of spreading the good news: that God had said «Yes» to Jesus; thus his way of life had been vindicated; that what he did and said had been true after all; that love, understanding, forgiveness, self - sacrifice are the real things that matter in the end.

On the other hand, the complexity of evaluation does point to the plurality of relevant ideals that may be legitimately espoused and to the inevitable conflict between those who cling to the simpler harmonies and those who would risk their sacrifice for the sake of greater massiveness.

Each human being has to seek the truth and to choose it when he or she finds it, even at the risk of embracing sacrifices.

It had made him devote the rest of his life, at the cost of immense risk and suffering, to the one task of spreading the good news: that God had said «Yes» to Jesus; that his way of life had been vindicated; that what he did and said had been true after all; that love, understanding, forgiveness, self - sacrifice are the real things that matter in the end.

Our union is a collective group of passionate entrepreneurs and risk takers who have sacrificed much to fulfill their personal dreams and support the communities in which we live.

Neither the government nor the live export industry was willing to take this obvious measure to reduce suffering, even though both admitted that religious festivals such as the Eid al Adha (or «Festival of Sacrifice») where large numbers of animals are sold to individual buyers presented the greatest risks to Australian animals.

Raising prices and selling our best assets so that billionaires and multi-millionaires could fill their pockets without taking any of the risks, simply meant that the only people making any sacrifices were us the fans.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

All of a sudden, the very same act that was lauded when it was framed as a sacrifice becomes a horrible way to put your child at risk (cause babies need optional pain meds to be born, I guess?)

The home birth community seems to be inhabited by singularly callous people, who find that it is worth ostracising and ignoring loss parents, sacrificing other people's (and sometimes even their own) babies, and protecting dangerous midwives, all for the sake of avoiding any kind of discussion whatsoever of the risks and benefits of home birth.

I'm proud of Jamie Oliver for his courage, and I'm proud of all the other people who sacrifice, take risks, and stand up for the kids in this country whose voices can not yet be heard.

If Marcie's # 225 earnings are derived from being on or near the minimum wage, then there is a double hit for her because she also can not salary sacrifice to save 12 per cent National Insurance, if such an arrangement would take her pay below the level of the applicable minimum wage rate (# 7.83 per hour in 2018/19 for those aged 25 and over).3 Anne Fairpo said: «One of the concerns about allowing the lowest earners to sacrifice salary has been the risk of their pay dropping below the point at which entitlement to contributory benefits is triggered (the Lower Earnings Limit - # 116 per week in 2018/19).

They are also the ones who take the risk, and make the sacrifice, and put themselves at the mercy of the voters.

In our view, the «risks» to such employees of using salary sacrifice are largely overstated and there would be nothing to stop the Government building in a safeguard to stop salary sacrifice pushing an employee's salary below the Lower Earnings Limit to ensure their contributions record remains protected.

An essential process risks being sacrificed to the abuses of machine politics.

The peer told the Independent that Labour should endorse the UK staying in the European Economic Area (EEA) or risk «sacrificing thousands» of jobs.

The mission team decided to sacrifice the spacecraft when it ran out of fuel, rather than risk a collision with one of those potentially habitable moons and contaminating it with any still - lingering earthly microbes.

1996 Salim Kheirbek, for his steadfast courage and uncompromising commitment, at great personal sacrifice and risk, to promote and defend the rights of Syrian citizens, particularly the right of scientists and engineers to form professional societies independent of the state.

Using fMRI scanners, they gave twenty - three subjects very short texts written by Holocaust survivors describing acts of kindness they received from strangers — some quite small, like a loaf of stale bread, and others involving great sacrifice and risk, like a hiding place when Nazi troops were closing in.

But when her doctor told her that the type of tumor she had — invasive lobular carcinoma — slightly increased her risk of developing cancer in the unaffected breast, she decided to have a double mastectomy and sacrifice her ability to breast - feed.

«Building momentum by swinging your arms when doing a move like a bicep curl or a tricep push - down sacrifices results by not controlling the eccentric phase, and also increases your risk of injury,» says Irv Rubenstein, PhD, exercise physiologist and founder of STEPS Fitness, a science - based fitness facility in Nashville, Tenn..

You don't want to be sacrificing cholesterol or taking — of course this depends on your health history — but there's a risk of depression in people who are taking statin drugs, cholesterol - lowering drugs that are lowing our cholesterol in the body because how are we making our hormones if we don't have enough cholesterol.

Ben: Yeah, I'm a bigger fan of not eating so much that you start to put on a gut, and this is kinda like finding that balance because if you eat a lot of food you're gonna put on muscle even more quickly, you're gonna stay in that anabolic state more readily but you also risks some of it getting turn into fat so I'm a bigger fan of sacrificing your rate of muscle gain if you can stay lean while at the same time that you're putting on muscle.

What they may not see is the hard work, sacrifice, late nights, tears, adversity, doubts, disappointments, courage, determination, risk, failure, persistence, change, struggles, and prayer... LOTS and LOTS of prayer...

(With Marivaux, passion is intense, but not always deep: the princess's decision to assume a disguise, risk imprisonment and sacrifice her throne is inspired when she catches a glimpse of Agic skinny - dipping.)

Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, and takes part in a sensational underwater heist, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.

This unbelievable true story chronicles the personal and professional life of the brilliant and uncompromising Felt, who risked and ultimately sacrificed everything - his family, his career, his freedom - in the name of justice.

This unbelievable true story chronicles the personal and professional life of the brilliant and uncompromising Felt, who risked and ultimately sacrificed everything — his family, his career, his freedom — in the name of justice.

I liked the matter - of - fact way Davis tells this extremely familiar story: we're given a real sense of what his followers sacrificed and risked, a woman most particularly.

Recent cinema has been rife with object lessons on why it's probably better to risk angering fans of source material rather than sacrifice momentum (look no further than Watchmen), so it stands to reason that Azkaban benefits from having taken the road less traveled, even if it wasn't the way that the original fans wanted it to go.