Sentences with phrase «safer than the former»

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It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

Experienced and a proven winner at club level, Arsenal could certainly do worse than taking a fairly safe bet on former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, who is 9/4 for the job, and who won the double in his first season the last time he took up a job in England.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

The former tourism minister claimed more than # 25,000 for private security at her London home as she didn't feel safe in the city.

One insider expressed surprise that Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan pushed all his members to remain unified in voting for the bill rather than allowing most of the conference to vote against it with the knowledge it could pass with mostly Democratic votes as occured under former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos when he allowed the gay marriage and SAFE Act bills to the floor.

According to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, current and former smokers who suffer from disease are more likely to have reported using an e-cigarette, meaning these patients may see e-cigarettes as safer or less harmful than combustible cigarettes and a way to reduce the risks posed by traditional smoking.

Former CIA agent Jason Hanson explains why, even though our society is statistically safer than it has ever been, there are new challenges we face in keeping our families safe.

Unlike The Big Lebowski, The Long Goodbye, or The Big Sleep, Inherent Vice has less of an actual plot than the outlines of one fashioned in the mind of its hero, incidentally a PI and former skip tracer but above all a guy who wants to make sure his old girlfriend is safe.

If you are planning a trip that involves air travel and you find out that one airline has a crash rate of.01 % and another.1 % (these are just hypothetical numbers; planes are much safer than this), you are going to choose the former, even if you are considering one - in - on - thousand chances because the consequences are so dire / fatal.