Sentences with phrase «substantial threat of»

Contrasting the ADA's requirement to provide accommodations for test taking, the Court said, «respondent can point to no provision of the ADA which would require the State Bar to make accommodations to allow respondent to practice law despite the substantial threat of harm to clients and the public as a result.»

& Prof. Code § 6007 (b)(3) provides the bar with this authority if, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, the State Bar Court finds that «because of mental infirmity or illness,» the lawyer is either (1) unable to or «habitually fails to perform his or her duties or undertakings competently,» or is (2) «unable to practice law without substantial threat of harm to the interests of his or her clients or the public.»

Not exact matches

By: Kimberley Smuts 27th May 2016 Fire is a pervasive threat to conveyor belt systems at mines and can cause substantial damage to the conveyed material, electromechanical components of the conveyor system and the belt if the necessary fire - protection systems are not in place.

«In the current situation, a further appreciation of the Swiss franc would constitute a very substantial threat to the Swiss economy, and would carry with it the risk of deflationary developments,» Jordan said at a conference in Zurich today.

Last week, Bank of America's (BOA) released their SEC annual report that also contained a mention of cryptocurrencies as a threat to their business, with the risk of competition described in very similar terms: «the widespread adoption of new technologies, including internet services, cryptocurrencies and payment systems, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our existing products and services.»

Unlike storing your currencies in your own wallet, dealing with exchange wallets makes you vulnerable to the various security threats all over the web, especially since hacking such websites leads to stealing a substantial amount of money, as was the recent case when the mining exchange marketplace NiceHash got hacked.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

(h) The threat of independent retailers ceasing to take supply from Metcash and selling their stores to one of the major supermarket chains imposed a substantial competitive constraint on Metcash as a supplier of packaged groceries at the wholesale level.

The official threat level of an al - Qaida attack on the UK has been lowered today from «severe» to «substantial».

And it said the decision to lower the threat level from «severe general» to «substantial» prior to July 7th was «not unreasonable» give that it still indicated a high level of threat.

That's because, since the process started, the threshold for seeking secrecy protection went from a «reasonable probability» to «substantial likelihood» that donors would suffer some sort of harm or threat if their identities were known.

Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of the these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity.

«The results of our study find substantial public health and economic consequences with even minor reductions in MMR coverage due to vaccine hesitancy and directly confront the notion that measles is no longer a threat in the United States.

As the capabilities of hobby drones improve at a rapid pace, the added threat from coordinated groups, swarms, and collaborative groups of sUASs will pose a substantial challenge to U.S. armed forces, the report says.

Amplification of existing health threats: The effects of extreme heat and heat waves, projected worsening air pollution and asthma, extreme rainfall and flooding, and displacement and injuries associated with extreme weather events, fueled by climate change, are already substantial public health issues.

Regardless of the exact transmission pattern, the study authors say China is facing a substantial dengue threat, with potential invasion into broader areas of the country, as sporadic cases have been identified in several provinces in recent years.

«Use began to decrease last year, but the drug still poses a substantial threat, and research was needed to determine which teens are at highest risk for use,» said Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH, a CDUHR affiliated researcher and an assistant professor of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC).

Nancy E. Willard: School administrators may intervene with formal discipline if there is a substantial and material disruption or threat of disruption on campus, including the rights of other students to be secure on campus.

This means, then, that a threat of this kind to that sector of its operation is substantial, simply on a fiscal basis, even without the awful publicity factored in.

The backing of a deal with Verizon presents some substantial threats for Akamai and likely means the end of Verizon's reseller agreement with it.

At the time, the researchers said there was no evidence to suggest the findings extended beyond the particular group of dogs or that it posed a substantial threat to people or their pets.

It's like every idea previously seen in the series has been brought out of the cupboard, cleaned up, polished until it shines and pieced together thoughtfully to create a stealth - action that boasts a substantial amount of potential ways of tackling objectives, like unleashing a perfect assault where you take out a base's power supply and communications before then proceeding to crash a tank through the front gate, gun down the major threats, leap out and use the cover of darkness to grab a couple of high value targets whose abilities will be a great boon to your own operations.

Deeply confounding factors get in the way — particularly the huge growth in exposure to climate threats through population growth and settlement patterns in vulnerable places and the substantial natural variability in the frequency and intensity of rare extreme events.

It's not the threat to the physical environment that is the chief source of concern, but rather that the tests breach a significant barrier on the path leading to deployment, and have a substantial risk of triggering escalation as other nations respond.

The slow onset processes of temperature rise, sea level rise, salinization, ocean acidification, and desertification all pose substantial and ever increasing threats to future food production and the lives and livelihoods of food producers and fisherfolk.

Here, a concerted effort to extend the benefits of the Green Revolution to those who have missed out — Africa being the most notable example — could be a rapid and substantial counterweight to the growing threat of climate change.

In their lawsuits, the communities claimed that the risks of climate change - related damages were imminent and posed a substantial threat.

Threats of a legal fight have already emerged, especially as native groups look to a series of high - profile spills — including two in the U.S. last summer from Enbridge lines — as evidence that pipelines pose substantial environmental risk.At Enbridge's meeting Geraldine Thomas - Flurer, who co-ordinates the anti-pipeline Yinka Dene Alliance, warned chief executive officer Pat Daniel of what is to come.

Crichton not only ignores the rather substantial cumulation of physical evidence that suggests that global warming is a real threat.

Yes, the threat of war seemed immediate and concrete but so too is the threat posed by the climate crisis that has already likely been a substantial contributor to massive disasters in some of the world's major cities.

A 2017 Pew Research survey showed that a substantial majority of people worldwide believe the climate crisis is a major threat — with respondents in 13 countries, mostly in Latin America and Africa, identifying global climate change as the topmost threat to their nation.

Or perhaps the same way that the substantial agreement between active researchers concerning the causes and treatment of gastric ulcers, until Barry Marshall and Robin Warren demonstrated that they could be cured with a simple course of antibiotics — a discovery that cost the pharmaceutical and surgical industries billions, and led to them being subject to death threats?

Brulle added that the public need to be made aware of «dramatic, global threats» and of the fact that «personal sacrifices (such as a substantial carbon tax) will be required.»

«Lindzen's view that the threat of substantial climate change is minimal runs «completely counter to the view of almost all who work actively in the field.»»

Substantial ideological differences on the threat and impact of climate change, which frequently mirror partisan divisions on the topic, also exist in Italy, the UK and Spain.

But adaptations that are substantial may call for an awareness of threats and responses to them that go beyond historical experience, a willingness to depart from traditional activity patterns, and access to financial resources not normally available to some small producers.

Easterbrook criticized Gore's claims that the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could lead to substantial increases in sea levels, that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, and that Bush administration officials have attempted to tamper with official reports on the threat posed by climate change.

The presence (or absence) of that regulation, along with its nature and timing, represent a substantial (potential) threat to the corporate bottom line, which means that the management of any corporation so threatened has a responsibility to acquire the best science possible to inform their risk management.

Although the most advanced theoretical climate models still leave uncertainty, particularly about the sign and magnitudes of the effects, on GHG feedbacks, of some low - and high - clouds, a consensus began to develop that threats of resulting increases in global temperature — and the very large risks associated with their possible consequences — deserved substantial increase in attention.

A violent offences is defined as an offence committed by a young person that includes as an element the causing of bodily harm; an attempt or a threat to commit an offence; or an offence in the commission of which a young person endangers the life or safety of another person by creating a substantial likelihood of causing bodily harm.

Requires substantial supervision by another person to protect oneself from threats to health and safety due to Severe Cognitive Impairment, defined as deterioration or loss of intellectual capacity that is measured by clinical evidence and standardized tests, which reliably measure impairment in:

Provides an accelerated death benefit if the insured is certified by a physician within the last 12 months as unable to perform two of six Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) for 90 consecutive days, or requires substantial supervision to protect himself or herself from threats to health and safety due to severe cognitive impairment.

Fire and Related Threats: - Fire, Explosion, Self - Ignition, Lightning are some of the factors which cause substantial damage to your vehicle externally and internally.

Becoming chronically ill means that the policyholder is not able to perform, without substantial assistance from another person for a period of at least 90 days, at least two out of the six activities of daily living or requires substantial supervision from another person, for a time period of at least 90 consecutive days, to protect the insured from threats to health and safety due to severe cognitive impairment.

[3] A person generally is chronically ill if the person (1) is unable to perform at least two activities of daily living, such as eating, using the toilet, bathing oneself, or dressing oneself; (2) requires substantial supervision to protect himself or herself from threats to health and safety due to severe cognitive impairment; or (3) has a level of disability similar to that described in (1) as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

To qualify for a chronic illness, you would need to be certified by a licensed health practitioner in the last 12 months with a qualifying illness or physical condition that would prevent you from performing at least two «Activities of Daily Living», without substantial assistance or requires substantial supervision from another person to protect the Insured Person from threats to health and safety due to cognitive impairment.

For instance, Florida's unique insurance landscape is a result of continually contending with hurricane and tropical storms threats, which makes both home and auto insurance more expensive and prevents insurers in the Sunshine State from offering substantial multi-policy discounts.

The threat of such distortive regulation may be substantial, especially in areas where regulators interact with «public interest clients» that have an incentive to demonize disfavored activities by private commercial actors — one example being the health and safety regulation of agricultural chemicals.

But I am arguing that the chip giant is under a substantial threat, the likes of which it hasn't faced for a long time, maybe ever.

Along with curbing technological innovation and passing along the costs to service providers and their customers, this casual expansion of surveillance powers poses a substantial privacy threat.