Sentences with phrase «vulnerable people at»

We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities.

We believe this decision will put vulnerable people at risk of being forced into marriage.»

It's better than knowingly putting vulnerable people at risk for illnesses that modern science has the power to prevent, too.

Offering medical assistance in dying to people in Canada on the basis of psychiatric illnesses could put vulnerable people at risk, argues a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

«Zika conspiracy theories on social media putting vulnerable people at risk.»

(2) To surround a demonstrating group and lock it in, without any regard to who is inside the group - e.g., children - puts very vulnerable people at risk should violence break out.

This country stands for something better than hurting vulnerable people at the same time that we lavish more tax cuts on those who least need them and already are benefiting handsomely from the tax cuts enacted to date.»

Former senior police chief and Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Brian Paddick said he was shocked by the revelations and is worried that it could put vulnerable people at higher risk of hate crimes.

New healthcare charging rules brought in today are unworkable and put health of vulnerable people at serious risk, say charities and health professionals

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Meanwhile, the number of people in «vulnerable» employment — such as self - employment — increased, adding to an outlook of the global employment landscape as precarious at best and deteriorating at worst as the global recovery takes time.

But, these new tools — especially a service for dating, in which people can be at their most vulnerable with one another — come at a precarious time for Facebook.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)-- Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once - fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.

«People here are enthusiastic about the benefits (of Amazon's HQ2), but those economic benefits often miss our most vulnerable citizens,» says Daniel Brisson, executive director of the Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness at the University of Denver.

While behaviour change and decongestion are often the objectives, the decongestion charge should not come at the expense of vulnerable groups, such as low income individuals and families, persons with disabilities and seniors.

The No Interest Loan Scheme (NILs), a microfinance program aimed at providing small no - and low - interest loans to financially vulnerable people, has this week announced it has surpassed $ 11.5 million lent in NSW.

«I worry we've left out the most vulnerable people, so we might make erroneous statement like the income gap is shrinking when it's not,» said Dr. Martens, who is also a professor at the University of Manitoba's faculty of medicine and member of the Order of Canada.

It goes straight to the emotions — in a place we may be vulnerable — loneliness that most people have experienced at one time or another — rather than seeking to appeal to our intelligence.

helpthehospices.org.uk / media - centre / press - releases / hospice - care - and - the - liverpool - care - pathway /] that «recent media coverage around a small number of distressing stories has been sensationalist and at times inaccurate», and that «it risks causing unnecessary distress to people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and may even prevent people from receiving the care that they need».

With neither a father at home nor a Father in heaven, young people today are vulnerable — and they know it.

While we are eager to welcome persecuted Christians, we also welcome vulnerable Muslims and people of other faiths or no faith at all.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

Michael Angell, church operations director at Ecclesiastical suggests it would be a shame for vulnerable people to miss out on vital support from the Church.

If you care about the people in this world living closest to the margins, then you need to do everything in your power to slow the rate at which the planet warms, for they are the most vulnerable.

2) At the limit, the ethical agent might die for the vulnerable other person.

He is an amazing person, and is all over our community helping our vulnerable residents, and serves as pastor in 2 churches, changing minds and lives, one person at a time.

Defending the honor of the poor by insisting they are just like the rest of the population shores up liberalism at its most vulnerable point, namely, its inability to explain why people who don't benefit from the welfare state should acquiesce in the taxes that pay for it.

How callous he is about these matters I do not know, but he gives much religious aid and comfort to those who are callous, and he provides political support for those who seek to solve our national problems at the expense of our most vulnerable people.

And I think the people attracted can be «a certain type of person» who thrives on that, but a lot are simply vulnerable when they come to it and get no good from it at all.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

«Trans people have a lot at stake when they go to the doctor,» says Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights attorney at Lambda Legal, where a transphobic physician or staff person can make an already vulnerable experience unbearable.

«Many people of color are feeling incredibly vulnerable at the prospect of a Trump presidency while trying to heal from the trauma of this past year.

«Every day across the country, our amazing volunteers are creating tasty, nutritious three - course meals, served to vulnerable people in the community at risk of food poverty and social isolation,» said FoodCycle Communications Officer Steven Hawkes.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its partners are working together to develop Golden Rice as a potential new food - based approach to improve the vitamin A status of people at risk, especially children and women who are most vulnerable as they have extra need for micronutrients.

Every person at a youth sports event in an official capacity should be subject to certain standards, in the effort of protecting a vulnerable demographic.

Arsenal meet Stoke at the Emirates Stadium this weekend and usually fill most of their 60,260 seats in the ground, meaning a large amount going towards vulnerable people.

There are hundreds of things pregnant women hear at a time when they are the most vulnerable and emotional that most people should just avoid mentioning.

I think cults also usually prey on people who are at their lowest and most vulnerable (i.e. suggestable) states, such as mothers who went through a difficult first birth in the hospital.

You are completely right about the people who promote these all - or - nothing ideologies adding unneeded stress on women at a very vulnerable time.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

For every internet Margaret there are probably 100 more people at home who believe and spread the same nonsense to vulnerable mothers who don't have the resources on hand to immediately challenge and dispute those assumptions.

While I don't know all of the context of the people responding to JoAnne's questions (or generally taking offense with her questions), I suspect that the folks most upset are the most sensitive or vulnerable about the subject matter and aren't we all at times, feeling very sensitive?

A few days after the Paris attack I attended a Combating Online Radicalization and Extremism workshop at the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) annual conference in Washington where experts pointed out that people who interact with extremists via social media are already highly vulnerable and on the path towards radicalization.

«Considering the immediate post-natal period is one of emotional turmoil and hormonal upheaval, any negative comments that people make after watching the videos could come at precisely the wrong time for some women, making them more vulnerable.

Babies and toddlers are vulnerable people and we didn't survive this long as a species by putting them in a separate cave and leaving them there for 8 - 12 hours at a time.

We put quality independent journalism at the service of the most vulnerable people on Earth.

Seeking help with these messages of shame swirling around, knowing the people you would ask have at least seen these messages and may even agree with them and could very well have made or propagated them, can require heaps of bravery at a time when a woman is feeling very vulnerable and possibly already struggling with feelings of inadequacy.

Within these vulnerable road user groups Britain has a higher level of deaths per head — at 13 per million people — than Sweden and the Netherlands, despite no evidence of higher activity or exposure to risk.

Compare this to the Tory agenda of profiteering and wealth protection for those at the top; creating an army of unemployed people to force down pay whilst demonising the vulnerable, setting people against one another and underpinning the whole twisted ideology with a culture of fear, hatred and selfishness.

Vulnerable people are not ones who mount the barricades, or put themselves at risk in the streets, or immerse themselves in communities that need help, or release confidential documents.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.