"To slow the bleeding" means to take actions or measures to reduce or stop a negative situation or loss from getting worse or having a major impact.
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If there is an open wound or active bleeding, a light wrap can be placed to help protect the wound and to
help slow bleeding.
The concept is the same as when a baby nurses right after birth, stimulating contractions,
which slows bleeding.
The greater Los Angeles D.M.A. has painted a picture of newspaper dysfunction, with multiple bankruptcies,
slow bleeding of staff resources and the soap opera that Aaron Kushner's attempted turnaround of the Orange County Register all figuring in the tragicomedy.
Our product has a vasoconstrictor, but it also has a clotting - factor activator and rapid absorption that work together to not
only slow the bleeding, but absorb the liquid, and also facilitate the coagulation cascade to aid in the animal's own clotting abilities.
«It's
like slow bleeding, clearing a passage by painting, ironing, folding, rubbing with a piece of black graphite.
I believe that he was there, and his love was behind the selfless actions when friends shielded friends, some even dying for their loving act, and another saved a friend who would definately died if she had
not slowed her bleeding and helped to get her out of the movie theatre.
Thankfully these days doctors not only assume most most will breastfeed, but in my case the OB also instructed the nurse not to give me the shot that was designed to
slow my bleeding because my baby was already nursing minutes after birth, so nature would take care of that.
Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhaging The release of oxytocin also causes uterine contractions, which help
slow the bleeding after delivery and help restore the uterus to its original size.
An increase in the rent threshold at which apartments become market - rate, indexed to rise each year, is a step forward, but it
only slows the bleeding — and is well short of de Blasio's target, ending vacancy decontrol completely.
The No. 4 carrier has
slowed its bleeding and reduced expenses, but it's still struggling to show growth.
It is sort of
a slower bleed as the top distributors leave,» Ackman told CNBC.
The other hidden danger of millions of obscure keywords is the risk of either
slow bleeds or sudden keyword explosions.
A slow bleed occurs when you have 50 or 100 keywords costing you $ 2 or $ 3 a month.
so much that i had to be given injections to
slow the bleeding and pills to stimulate and increase my bodies ability to regenerate new blood for myself.
I applaud the council for trying to
slow the bleeding but I would not have targeted the Land Bank.
«The problem is it continues
the slow bleed,» says Michael Lubell, the director of public affairs at the American Physical Society in Washington DC.
Testing done in animal models and in a simulated circulatory system suggest that the particles are effective at
slowing bleeding and can safely circulate in the bloodstream.
Sore muscles are caused by micro tears and bleeding, so the theory is compression acts as a tourniquet to
slow the bleeding.
Body dismemberment, corkscrew impalings,
slow bleeding to death, bashed - in heads, limb amputations - these are Berg's ideas of replacements for the banana peel.
A nonfiction film about
the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.
However, when stocks go through a rough patch, active managers can get defensive by moving to cash, high - quality bonds or other protective positions and
slow the bleeding.
About half of my net revenue has come from the short side, which made me reluctant to abandon it even after many months of «
slow bleed» kind of returns.
Not the outcome we are hoping for, but it could happen (stop loss orders should
slow the bleed - out).
Caring for an Open Wound: If your pet has an open wound, apply direct pressure to help
slow the bleeding.
If your pet's ear is bleeding you can try to apply pressure to
slow the bleeding.
KwikStop and other styptic powders work as a vasoconstrictor to
slow the bleeding to the area.
Europe's migration policy has been exposed as fractured; the policies of the West towards
the slow bleed in Syria have illustrated what happens down the causal chain when there is a failure to act.
A CT scan can make sure that there are
no slow bleeds, aneurysm, blood clot, or a hematoma in the brain.
The injured individual can have
a slow bleed that eventually causes pressure on the brain.
Some head injuries cause
a slow bleed or swelling that can cause damage later, and some people have died from head injuries when they initially said they «felt fine.»
We kept putting on Band - Aids, but the wound was
a slow bleed.
A clotting agent on the material expands and absorbs blood to help
slow bleeding and seal wounds.
Short of implementing some truly innovative and unique technologies (see hybrid viewfinders above), if DSLRs simply kept pace with mirrorless innovations, that may be enough to
slow the bleeding.
So if you chose to keep
the slow bleed debt, maybe you're able to invest small now but it'll never really snowball cause you can never put that much into it.
And
the slow bleed at Sears Holdings has left it less and less relevant.