Sentences with phrase «small numbers of lives»

Some question whether the relatively small numbers of lives that would be saved are justified by the significant cost of a vaccine programme.

Generally speaking, there are a small number of life - threatening tumors that can spread in the body, a large number of masses that cause damage inside the mouth, and a lot of swellings that are caused by inflammation and can look like other masses.

Games of the Week Each week, a small number of Live Fixtures become Games of the Week.

This is in stark contrast to the small number of lives lost in only one catastrophic nuclear accident.

A small number of life insurance companies offer a discount when two people in the same household buy policies.

Not exact matches

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

The personal - finance website evaluated business conditions in more than 1,200 small U.S. metropolitan areas on 18 metrics, including average growth in number of small businesses and cost of living.

«We are handing the controls of important parts of our public and private lives to a very small number of people, who are unelected and unaccountable.»

«A small number of people who logged into «This Is Your Digital Life» also shared their own News Feed, timeline, posts and messages which may have included posts and messages from you,» reads the warning.

Many factors can be attributed to the depletion of the fund, including longer life expectancies, an increased in the number of retirees and a smaller working - age population.

If the force of gravity varied by any more than this infinitesimally small number, then stars would burn either too hot or too cold for the chemical building blocks of life to form.

However small the probability of life randomly occuring, if the number of chances for that to happen is very large (possibly even infinite in multiple universes) then it becomes almost a certainty.

helpthehospices.org.uk / media - centre / press - releases / hospice - care - and - the - liverpool - care - pathway /] that «recent media coverage around a small number of distressing stories has been sensationalist and at times inaccurate», and that «it risks causing unnecessary distress to people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and may even prevent people from receiving the care that they need».

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

Editor's note: It is probable that 88 billion or 8.8 x 1010 assumes a growth rate for the earth's population which is much too small — that most of the people who have ever lived are still alive today — suggesting that this number may be too large by a factor of ten.

Robert C. Leslie, a leader in the field of group pastoral counseling, has observed: «One of the healthiest signs of renewal in the life of the church is the increasing number of small, intimate, sharing groups which are springing up on all sides.»

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

A number of studies have shown that the mentally retarded become more independent in small community programs where they are exposed to the experiences of everyday life.

Robert Leslie, a pioneer in using small groups in the church, now reports: «An increasing number of people are finding new meaning in their church life through small sharing groups.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

how many more mistakes are you American people going to make 7/11 shook your country to the core allowing a mosque near or on this site will make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and the small number of muslims who think terror is right will think thay have one yet another chapter on ther fight against the west so on that ground only i think the best thing for the site would be a peoples park where people from all walks of life and religious back ground can be as one A.R WATTS, E ngland

The truth, however, is that while the gospel does tell us how to have eternal life so that we can go to heaven when we die (I call this «The Target Truth» in The Gospel According to Scripture), this truth is relatively small compared to the large number and wide variety of gospel truths contained within the Scriptures.

A small but significant number of people flagged for discussion the question asking whether they agree with the statement, «I'm basically living at peace and in love with others at this point in my life.»

The broader issue is that smart political theologists have always conceded the same point: there is always a more or less small number of individuals who are able to live pretty well on Earth without recourse to religion.

They are concentrated in the South, truer to the stereotype — about half of their members live in these areas — with large numbers, nearly seventy percent, living in small cities, towns, and rural areas.

The apparent gap between nonliving and living has now been bridged by nucleic acids, a class of polymeric organic molecules composed of a succession of small units (nucleotides) of four sorts, the order of which determines an indefinitely large number of different specificities.

If small busniess owners (like someone who owned five rental properties) can decide only to rent to legally married couples, for instance (and marital status is one of those things for which you are protected from descrimination) then there could suddenly be quite a number of people who are unable to find places to live, or can be taken advantage of by a limited number of other renters.

(Revelation 14:1) That number is small in comparison with the millions who will enjoy endless life on earth as loyal subjects of the Kingdom.

The increasing number of scientific discoveries involving hyper - complex systems, even among the smallest of life forms, point away from the idea of these systems forming by simple «chance» and more toward an intelligent creator.

Mt 7:14 For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

One of my oldest friends came by, having just returned from a few - week trip to Bali via Hong Kong, and the smaller number of dinner guests meant I had more time to live vicariously through her travels.

They're my connection to reality, my foot in the earth, a reminder that my life isn't just about the awesome thing my kid did or the small number of hours I've slept or how mind - numbingly difficult potty training is.

A small number of preemies never fully catch up and remain slightly smaller than average throughout their life.

Aulani also offers these free life jackets just like the mainland park resorts, with a large number of the smallest options to fit babies and toddlers.

A small number of babies also develop brain injuries in the first months or years of life that can result in cerebral palsy.

«For 10 years the vast majority of people have seen no increase in their standard of living at all, while a relatively small number of people have become incredibly rich.

A small number of print journalists will be allowed into the committee, while the live feed will be broadcast on a delay to prevent state secrets from being inadvertently released.

Cynthia will work with the state legislature to find solutions and pass new rent laws to protect tenants living in homes that might be smaller than 6 units but are owned by corporate landlords who own a large number of properties.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

Despite a small number of notable omissions, this is a valuable addition to the genre of political autobiography that puts women's lived experience -LSB-...]

We think that it's a small enough number that it won't be too challenging to the people who like things remaining with the status quo, but it'll be a large enough number that'll make a significant impact in the lives of 75 families.»

Conversely, the electoral division you live in might be on a knife edge, giving disproportionate weight to the small number of votes that can tip the balance.

«Some cancers will be missed, some people will die of breast cancer regardless of whether they have a mammogram, and a small number of people that might have died of breast cancer without screening will have their lives saved.»

And even those small numbers might overestimate what occurs in everyday life, says Richard Hobbs, head of the department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, who defended statins last year in BMC Medicine.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

The standard approach of researching exoplanets, or planets that orbit distant stars, has entailed studying small numbers of objects to determine if they have the right gases in the appropriate quantities and ratios to indicate the existence of life.

These numbers might look small, but they are quickly creeping toward those figures already present in the resistance epicenter of western Cambodia, about 800 kilometers away, where the mean clearance time in 119 different patients was 5.5 hours, and 42 percent of the infections had a half - life of more than 6.2 hours.

The temperature - sensitive Aedes aegypti, the main mosquito vector, only lives in high numbers in a small portion of the United States, and mainly thrives in summer months when the temperature is between 25 °C and 32 °C.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / digitalskillet Whether or not you will live past 70 depends on a seemingly infinite number of small variables: genes, lifestyle, whether or not you are hit by a bus, etcetera.

The brightly colored animals came to scientific attention only because they were living as pets in small riverbank settlements — suggesting that the number of undiscovered species in the Amazon basin is even greater than scientists suspect.