Sentences with phrase «threatens life as we know»

Climate change threatens life as we know it on our one and only home planet.

Played on a virtual chessboard, players control three kaiju sized mechs in a turn - based showdown against the Vek, an insect like race of kaiju that are threatening life as we know it.

Not exact matches

But EpiPen, a portable device that counteracts potentially life - threatening allergic reactions known as anaphylaxis, is supposed to be the company's shining success story.

It's as if the Earth now has two moons instead of one and both are growing in size like a cancerous tumor that may threaten the financial tides, oceans and economic life as we have known it for the past half century.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

It's a wonderful thing to live in an era without existential threats to national survival — but, as Walker Percy knew, it's very difficult to see the Acropolis when the only thing that threatens it is air pollution.

Although it may not be as well known as Celiac disease, a wheat allergy is a serious and potentially life threatening health condition.

Living on the road + s» mores in Yellowstone = best birthday ever (although Scott would say feeling as if your life was constantly threatened by grizzly bears lurking around sucks the fun out of it — I wouldn't know what he was talking about because I am contently oblivious to all negative possibilities and danger).

In some people, a food allergy can cause severe symptoms or even a life - threatening reaction known as anaphylaxis.

For some people, a food allergy may result in a severe and life - threatening reaction known as anaphylaxis.

Premature infants who are fed with human milk decrease their risks of a serious and life - threatening intestinal infection known as necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.

and for all babies under six months, giving water can dilute the sodium in the baby's bloodstream to the point where a potentially life threatening condition known as «oral water intoxication» develops, and this can lead to symptoms like low body temperature, bloating, and seizures.

Another life - threatening condition, known as HELLP syndrome, may also develop together with postpartum preeclampsia.

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«Everyone who was there knew that a motor vehicle was used as a weapon, to threaten the life of a police officer,» Bailey said Thursday, noting that agents for the attorney general told Abelove that day that he should pursue the case at the county level.

Hughes» reaction was to attempt to make their lives a misery for the next three years by refusing to pay his Community Charge (popularly known as the Poll Tax), then dumping scrap metal in the middle of the council chambers to the value of his unpaid tax when threatened with legal action.

Rita knows that as taxes rise and the quality of life in Rockland continues to be threatened by over development and destruction of natural resources, a caring voice must be -LSB-...]

Rita knows that as taxes rise and the quality of life in Rockland continues to be threatened by over development and destruction of natural resources, a caring voice must be raised for the constituents of north Rockland, which is one of the most environmentally and historically sensitive areas of our county.

Here she was reading about serious, even life - threatening complications, yet her doctor either hadn't known or hadn't told her of any of the risks — risks she says «I would never have taken for such a minor inconvenience as urinary incontinence.»

The classic example is the sickle cell gene — people with one copy of the gene are strongly protected against malaria but those with two copies of the gene develop a life - threatening condition known as sickle - cell disease.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

When patients with oral allergy syndrome take angiotensin - converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for hypertension and congestive heart failure, they are at an increased risk for a life - threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, according to new research.

Anaphylaxis, known to be a sudden and potentially life - threatening allergic reaction, was defined in the study as a reaction involving at least two organ systems and / or a sudden drop in blood pressure.

A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has in the past decade become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life - threatening diseases, including certain types of leukemia, lung cancer, kidney cancer and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.

Renal complications, also known as diabetic nephropathy, are one of the most life - threatening complications of diabetes that often lead over time to end - stage renal disease (ESRD).

In the rare, life - threatening disease called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), patients are stricken with chronic anemia and blood clots, when the oldest part of the immune system — known as complement — turns against its own red blood cells, or erythrocytes.

These early weeks of chemotherapy often lead to a drop in white blood cells known as neutropenia that leaves patients at risk for life - threatening infections that can delay cancer treatment.

The chemical diacetyl, used for adding the fake butter flavor to microwave popcorn has been found to cause a life - threatening and irreversible lung disease known as «popcorn lung» in workers who inhaled the substance.

The goal is to improve treatments for patients who suffer from Clostridium difficile (also known as C. diff) infection, a potentially life - threatening form of illness that can cause serious inflammation of the colon.

It's known as diabetic ketoacidosis and is a potentially life - threatening condition if you have insulin - dependent diabetes.

This combination of reactions to stress is also known as the «fight - or - flight» response because it evolved as a survival mechanism, enabling people and other mammals to react quickly to life - threatening situations.

Did you know reducing IGF - 1 (Insulin - Like Growth Factor 1) by fasting is one of the best ways to reduce weight and stave off life threatening diseases such as cancer and diabetes?

If the medications were only expensive and not life threatening, their use could no doubt be shrugged off as a harmless snake oil pharmaceutical scam; but, in fact, these are thoroughly dangerous medications for both physical and emotional reasons — for physical reasons because their use can lead to serious untreatable diseases such as liver cancer, and for emotional reasons because their use perpetuates the myth that cholesterol is dangerous and evil.

Back in the eighteenth century, sailors all over the world were falling victim to the life - threatening condition known as scurvy.

At the least, no actor since has been able to convey life - threatening danger with so little movement (and, as is widely known now, without blinking).

Named as such for the box he wears, Eggs knows little of the world above, but must learn quickly when the machinations of an exterminator named Snatcher (voiced like a sewage - y river by Ben Kingsley) with upward mobility on his mind threaten the very lives of his adopted family of «monsters.»

The film follows an expedition into a mysterious zone called Area X. Lena (Portman), a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband (Isaac) inside the zone — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline, known as The Shimmer Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.

Based on true events and an original story by Maria Bello, the film tells the story of Nanisca (Davis), General of the all - female military unit known as the Amazons, and her daughter Nawi (Nyong» o), who together fought the French and neighboring tribes who violated their honor, enslaved their people, and threatened to destroy everything they've lived for.

The plotline involves a supposition that the global warming apocalypse that many scientists have been predicted is finally here, and in an accelerated example of such disastrous events, much of the Earth's northern hemisphere suffers from severe flooding, tidal waves and an ice storm that threatens to wipe out practically all life as we know it in those affected regions.

As Paramedics we feel passionately about our training and know the importance of early recognition and treatment of the most life threatening emergencies.

«As the mother of a child with life - threatening allergies, I know how important it is to talk frequently with my child and the people who care for him about this topic,» said Bowen, whose oldest son is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts and bee stings.

As you know, the government administers a lot of these very life - threatening vaccines to children all over the world.

3 — Bloated or Distended Abdomen: A bloated abdomen accompanied by discomfort, stretching, or gagging can be signs of the life - threatening condition in dogs known as a GDV (Gastric Dilatation - Volvulus).

This is also known as GDV (Gastric Dilatation - Volvulus) and this is highly progressive & life threatening.

Gastric Dilation - Volvulus (GV) is a life - threatening disorder which is commonly known as bloating.

Feline Distemper: Feline Panleukopenia virus, also commonly known as feline distemper, is a highly contagious and life - threatening viral disease in cats.

A cat who stops eating is always a concern, and a cat who hasn't eaten anything for more than 24 - 48 hours may be developing a potentially life - threatening condition called hepatic lipidosis, also known as fatty liver disease.

This is known as sepsis, and in and of itself is a life - threatening situation.

Life threatening, gastrointestinal syndrome known as bloat is very commonly found in borzois.