Sentences with phrase «substantial number of deaths»

Each year, TBI's are responsible for a substantial number of deaths and cases of permanent disability.

The lock - on system is still clumsy, the controls are still imprecise enough to feel like a substantial number of your deaths would've been avoided with more thoughtful polish.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Currently, infections after transplant are common and may be severe, causing death in a substantial number of people.

«A substantial number of colorectal cancer deaths are potentially preventable through routine colorectal screening,» said Hannah K. Weir, PhD, senior epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

«Estimates from this study indicate that reducing indoor tanning would be effective in preventing a substantial number of melanoma cases and deaths, and result in melanoma treatment cost - savings,» the researchers wrote.

Even small changes in relative risk can be quite substantial for diseases like malaria that kills over 1,600 per million and diarrhea that kills over 1,000 / million population — and yes, mostly children; therefore in this case even a small or «marginal» risk translates to a potentially very large number of additional deaths over baseline; this is how confusion between «relative» vs. «attributable» risk can be misleading.

In fact, the reality that the only way to use a life insurance policy's cash value to repay a loan tax - free is via the death benefit leads to a number of «rescue» strategies for life insurance policies with substantial loans, specifically to help ensure that the policy remains in place until the death of the insured.

Thus, an extremely low misclassification rate in a large linked dataset can make a substantial difference to the number of reported deaths among indigenous peoples when an «at least one report» method of enhancement is used.

While the overall rate of such problems may be low, where linked datasets are very large, and indigenous populations are relatively small, a low rate of incorrect links or data entry errors could make a substantial difference to the number of deaths reported after enhancement.