Sentences with phrase «vulnerable areas»

«Risk is increasing globally even without climate change,» the report said, largely because of a rising global population with people living in vulnerable areas such as flood plains.

But perhaps the most vulnerable area of science to politics, however, is space exploration.

One of the most vulnerable areas in most marriages, if not the most, is physical intimacy.

And they were permitted inside the loading dock, one of the arena's most vulnerable areas for security threats.

Your agent can help you identify vulnerable areas of your portfolio and find the coverage you need.

You need to carefully plan your shots to reach more vulnerable areas in order to clear the board.

Especially vulnerable areas include: elbows, ankles, and hips.

Visual - motor / visual - spatial coordination is a particularly vulnerable area of functioning, which might cascade into difficulty with math concepts and skills later in development.

As disasters become more frequent and populations living in vulnerable areas increase, interest in the health effects of exposure to the combination of natural and technological disasters has grown.

In a small, economically vulnerable area, such a plan requires vision and determined leadership.

Secondly, we have increased the population in vulnerable areas dramatically.

The car seat's enhanced side wings protect the five most vulnerable areas of your child's body including his head, neck, face, torso and pelvis.

Each panel positions a line of air - filled bumps at the bottom of the doors to protect the most vulnerable areas of the car in the urban environment.

The problem is serious because up to 10 percent of the world's population lives in vulnerable areas less than 10 meters (about 30 feet) above sea level.

The chest is a particularly vulnerable area of the body during an accident.

Symptoms of contact dermatitis will normally cause a red bumpy rash to develop on vulnerable areas such as on the feet, groin, abdomen and skin.

Meanwhile, adaptation to a warmer world can be justified as intelligent planning (e.g., not building cities below sea level), as disaster preparedness (e.g., protecting vulnerable areas from drought, floods, and hurricanes), and as economic development (e.g., creating a secure built environment).

We're not going to stop herding into vulnerable areas until other people stop (and they're not going to stop until we stop).

· Stand LA is leading a diverse coalition of local and national organizations dedicated to winning a prohibition on oil drilling within 1500 feet of schools and other vulnerable areas in Los Angeles.

That said, when four people are cooking away — focusing turrets, shielding vulnerable areas from attack, maneuvering the ship perfectly and letting off that Yamato cannon at just the right moment — the feeling is hard to put into words.

Improved technologies for tree plantation development and reforestation could likely enhance adaptation especially in vulnerable areas such as the Siberian forests.

A new push is under way to raise awareness of a little - understood but dangerous risk to young athletes: injuries to the cervical spine, the highly vulnerable area between the first and seventh vertebrae that protects the spinal cord connecting the brain to the body.

In the wake of last week's terrorist attack in Manhattan, Cuomo is looking to boost security at vulnerable areas across the state.

The shoulders are a very vulnerable area of the body and most shoulder injuries stem from performing heavy exercises with poor form.

The majority of schools were equipped with either impact - resistant windows or built - in storm shutters, and sandbags were placed around vulnerable areas.

They will require drilling companies to encase their wells in cement through vulnerable areas where they could leak into groundwater, and will require testing of that cement to ensure it is properly in place.

The researcher emphasises that «these two responses would allow them on the one hand to direct the attacks of the predator to less vulnerable areas of their body like the tail fin and, at the same time, maintain a larger digestive area to counteract the potential negative effects of lowered activity.»

Francine Kershaw, PhD Natural Resources Defense Council As part of NRDC's Marine Mammal Protection Project, Francine Kershaw identifies areas of the ocean that are crucial for marine mammals and then assesses how vulnerable those areas are to human impacts.

When spending time outside, protect vulnerable areas with a spray - on sunscreen — dermatologists prefer those made for skin, not hair — or, if your hair is thinning, wear a hat.

Such can not be said for being able to control the movement of hurricanes so that they do not stall over vulnerable areas.

Residents in hurricane vulnerable areas who had a plan, and took individual responsibility for acting on those plans, faired far better than those who did not,» said Max Mayfield, director of the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

Disruption by flood and high winds; withdrawal of risk coverage in vulnerable areas by private insurers, potential for population migrations, loss of property

Vulnerable areas include both interior China and semi-arid regions of Africa, where the landscape is particularly vulnerable.

IFC is working with Bangladesh's four largest private seed companies to enhance production, distribution and adoption of high yielding and stress tolerant seed varieties in poverty - stricken and climate vulnerable areas.

Two equally vulnerable areas in the North are also progressing Combined Authority status.

The goal of the new rule is to help local governments identify vulnerable areas affected by climate change that they can show to federal and state officials as a way to obtain money for things like road rebuilding.

Still, Occupy Sandy's Goldberg said the city should have done more to prepare, like establishing relief stations in vulnerable areas before the storm rather than trying to get there after roads were underwater and the tunnels were flooded.

According to Tickle, the main reason for the difference is that the British government does not include vulnerable areas unless they are the dominant ecosystem in a standard grid of 100 square kilometres.

About a million people took shelter in 29 provinces, after President Benigno Aquino appealed to people in Haiyan's path to leave vulnerable areas, such as river banks, coastal villages and mountain slopes.

Prehab is (preventative) resistance band training that can strengthen vulnerable areas throughout the body.

Baby gates and doors prevent your dog's access to vulnerable areas when he's in wild child mode.

Considering that the entire point of the game is to kill opponents using weapons and crashes to deplete their life bars, the difficulty in driving the vehicles within the game only makes aiming weapons and targeting vulnerable areas of an opponent's car that much more infuriating.

Q / How will funds be used to help those most affected by climate change, such as energy workers, low - income families, agricultural workers and people in extreme weather vulnerable areas?

Relocating millions of people out of potentially vulnerable areas?

A scenario in which a rapidly intensifying storm quickly approaches land is one of the many nightmare possibilities that keep hurricane forecasters awake at night, since a stronger storm puts more people in harm's way, and depending on a storm's forward speed, they may run out of time to evacuate vulnerable areas.

Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.