Sentences with phrase «under serious threat for»

Having identified the key reasons for water scarcity, it is chilling to read the World Wildlife Fund's report «World's Top 10 Rivers at Risk» because it identifies ten rivers under serious threat for exactly the same reasons as the UN has defined.

Not exact matches

With Muir having broken Kelly Holmes» British 1500m record in such fine style on Friday night, many among the crowd might have wondered if conditions were right for the current 800m mark of 1:56.21 — also held by the 2004 double Olympic champion — to come under serious threat.

Two Democratic polls (one done for O'Malley, the other for state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer) show that O'Malley remains the favorite, but he is under 50 percent in each survey — a sign that Duncan remains a serious threat.

It was the President's fervent hope that the deep love Queen Elizabeth shown for the Commonwealth «will continue to light the way for all of us and our successors, as we endeavour to establish firmly in a world, where many traditional assumptions are under serious threat, the values of fairness, decency, freedom and openness, which have been the object of her work.

Introgression poses a serious threat to all 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout in western North America due to widespread stocking and invasion of non-native trout into historical cutthroat trout habitats (Trotter 2008); two subspecies are now extinct, five are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and seven have been petitioned for listing.

The continued availability of pets is under threat, posing a serious problem for all sectors of the industry.

Climate scientists are perhaps under the most serious threat, however, because their findings carry with them grave implications for the future of our social and economic order.

Sometimes, however, these instruments of fun and education may pose serious threats to young children if they are improperly made or not intended for use by children under a certain age.

«One has to bear in mind, and I have seen this both in crime and in immigration, that someone who is under threat of removal or is accused of a serious crime is extremely vulnerable and it is very easy for someone to say, «Come on, I can help you,»» he said.

For example, a provider who makes a disclosure under § 164.512 (j)(1)(i) relating to serious and imminent threats will not be in violation of this rule even if the disclosure is contrary to a restriction agreed to under this paragraph.

For example, a disclosure under § 164.512 (j)(1)(i) to avert an imminent threat to safety is lawful only if made in the good faith belief that the disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public, and to a person reasonably able to prevent or lessen the threat.

The ICJ said it was «concerned that the independence and security of lawyers is under increasing threat in Turkey, with potentially serious consequences for the capacity of lawyers to play their proper role in the administration of justice, and the protection of the rule of law and human rights in the justice system.»