Sentences with phrase «risk public attack»

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The report listed five security risks Chinese companies and their personnel faced: political disturbances, military conflicts, terrorist attacks, organised crime and public security incidents.

... Beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation, when France and places of worship are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is liable to create risks of disrupting public order.

He knows he can't go wrong in the eyes of the public by attacking the body politic in this country, that it holds no risks, and that's why he has done it.

Considered a high - risk offender because of his history of serious sexual attacks, including rape and other assaults, he was put under what should have been close supervision by the Hampshire multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA).

The risk for the Welsh Government is that the public may see attacks from Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron as clearly political, but in Ann Clwyd many see someone who's speaking up for patients after a painful experience.

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

A team of researchers led by Prof. Tobias Kurth, Head of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a higher risk of stroke or heart attacks than women without migraine.

But for politicians, high - profile public servants, business executives or, indeed, any well - known person, the risks of being attacked, injured or even killed are much higher.

There is no doubt that, compared with most of us, people in public life run a high risk of being attacked.

High blood pressure is a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke and is also a significant public health burden, costing the United States about $ 110 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2015, according to American Heart Association estimates.

«Many individuals — both physicians and members of the general public — have looked on genetic risk as unavoidable, but for heart attack that does not appear to be the case.»

In an age where cybersecurity is of foremost interest for governments and businesses, public and private organizations must deploy risk - intelligence governance to secure their digital communications and resources from eavesdropping, theft or attack, according to a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Ppublic and private organizations must deploy risk - intelligence governance to secure their digital communications and resources from eavesdropping, theft or attack, according to a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public PPublic Policy.

Asthmatic children living in green homes experienced substantially lower risk of asthma symptoms, asthmatic attacks, hospital visits, and asthma - related school absences than children living in conventional public housing.

Rassen has analyzed the information available from the public use of Vioxx, a COX - 2 inhibitor that was pulled off the market in 2004 because it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke.

«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

Voss also acknowledges that some might hesitate to get involved because of perceived risks, such as being attacked on a public forum.

Nevadans like Democratic Senator Harry Reid, who has doggedly opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, say it makes more sense to leave such waste where it is than to risk transporting it across the nation's public highways and rail system, during which accidents or even terrorist attacks could expose untold numbers of Americans to radioactivity.

Public health officials have warned that breathing even small amounts of secondhand smoke can cause heart damage to healthy nonsmoking adults and may trigger heart attacks in those who are already at risk.

Richard Wiseman, professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, commented: «This is a huge rise, and the results are extremely worrying because getting less than seven hours sleep a night is below the recommended guidelines, and is associated with a range of problems, including an increased risk of weight gain, heart attacks, diabetes and cancer.»

The same staff and facility also process deCODE's DNA - based reference laboratory tests for gauging individual risk of major public health challenges ranging from heart attack to breast cancer, as well as the company's pioneering deCODEme ™ scans, the world's first personal genome analysis and focused disease area scans.

One study from the Harvard School of Public Health has shown that men who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 % higher risk of heart attack compared to men who regularly ate breakfast, while another recent study found a strong association between skipping breakfast and a higher risk of weight gain.

Doctors and public health officials have been telling us for years that eating too much sodium can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke by raising blood pressure to unsafe levels.

Overall, more people who had a heart attack before 50 had more risk factors for heart disease than the general public, the researchers said.

TUESDAY, May 3, 2011 (Health.com)-- Doctors and public health officials have been telling us for years that eating too much sodium can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke by raising blood pressure to unsafe levels.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, «Women who eat three or more servings» of strawberries every week «may lower their risk of having a heart attack.»

Exposure to heavy traffic — whether you're traveling by car, bike, or public transit — may double your risk of a heart attack, according to a German study.

The depression, anxiety, and other strong emotions associated with grief may be partly responsible for the spike in heart - attack risk, says lead author Elizabeth Mostofsky, Sc.D., a post-doctoral research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, both in Boston.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security raised its terror - threat alert on Feb. 7 from yellow to orange to warn the public of a «high risk» of attacks on U.S. targets here and abroad in the coming weeks.

In Chicago, public school officials are attacking truancy by combining «systemwide efforts, local initiatives, and improved programs for at - risk youth.»

Responding to criticism of the federation study, she said, «it's ironic that people would be defending charter schools for not doing a better job with at - risk children, because public schools have been attacked for not doing a better job with them.»

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

Tendency Toward Aggression: Breeds that have a tendency to attack people or those that can be a risk to public safety.

This is where becoming a PIJAC member may be beneficial; we can more easily bear the risks of public engagement — such as attacks by animal activists — while providing you with guidance on how to most effectively engage openly or behind the scenes.

But the government said that despite recent leaks by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor, that made public a fuller scope of the surveillance and data collection programs put in place after the Sept. 11 attacks, sensitive secrets remained at risk in any courtroom discussion of their details — like whether the plaintiffs were targets of intelligence collection or whether particular telecommunications providers like AT&T and Verizon had helped the agency.

«Defendants stole a page from the Big Tobacco playbook and sponsored public relations campaigns, either directly or through the American Petroleum Institute or other groups, to deny and discredit the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming, downplay the risks of global warming, and even to launch unfounded attacks on the integrity of leading climate scientists,» the San Francisco suit reads.

The Securities and Exchange Commission released new guidance calling for public companies to be more transparent regarding their cybersecurity risks — both before and after an attack.

Basically, there were reports that surfaced that GSK was aware of the increased risk of a heart attack when patients used Avandia and failed to make that knowledge public.

At a Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) forum in Richmond in March on the expiring federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), panelists emphasized that terrorism insurance is vital to businesses and public institutions outside of urban centers, and that terrorism is meant as an attack on the country, its government and way of life — vs. individual property owners in cities like New York and San Francisco (Richmond - Times Dispatch reported March 13).