Sentences with phrase «work by poisoning»

Most pesticides and insecticides work by poisoning the pest.

Traditional antibiotics typically work by poisoning important metabolic processes after being taken up by the target bacteria, a process that may take hours, or days, to clear a bacterial infection.

As a plant defense, nicotine works by poisoning a variety of creatures.

In fact dark green leafies are so packed with vitamin K that if you're on the drug coumadin (warfarin), a drug that works by poisoning vitamin K metabolism, you have to closely work with your physician to titrate the dose to your greens intake so as to not undermine the drug's effectiveness!

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If they haven't been fired by now your tirade isn't going to accomplish anything and you won't be there later to defend yourself when that person makes it their life work to poison your reputation in retaliation.

He who meets men with a double glance, an open one which invites fellowship and a secret one which conceals the conscious aim of the observer — he can not be delivered from his sickness by any talent that he brings to his work, for he has poisoned the springs of his life.

Repression can work serious havoc by driving the poison of sorrow inward.

He added: «This grant reflects just such a collaboration, involving countless hours of work, the commitment of joint resources and the combined talents of dedicated professionals motivated by their passion for protecting the health of our children and sparing them the debilitating effects of lead poisoning.»

The program, initiated last year by County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., targets properties in Cornhill, West Utica and parts of East Utica that are «at risk» for lead poisoning and allows the homeowners to replace old lead - base painted, single paned windows with new energy efficient replacement windows purchased at cost and using lead safe work practices.

«Protecting our children from the hazards of lead common in pre-1978 housing has been a high priority of my administration; and while it may take years to provide adequate lead safe housing in our community, there are measures we can take now to reduce children's risks of lead poisoning, including insisting that rental property owners replace or repair older windows and chipping and peeling lead paint and ensuring the work is performed by EPA certified contractors using lead safe work practices,» Picente said.

Some early TCM practitioners were even poisoned by their herbs several times within a normal working day.

Anthrax poisonings, as well as cholera infections, work in part by disrupting the normal transport mechanisms of proteins.

«This work has a huge humanitarian bent in that the majority of countries affected by arsenic poisoning are developing countries,» Cottone said.

For instance, the skin toxins of poison - dart frogs drew attention 20 years ago as a potential painkiller that worked by targeting nicotine receptors.

But no hospital has invested substantially in home remediation to eliminate triggers, a proven strategy supported by the HUD secretary and promoted by Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, a Baltimore nonprofit that works to reduce asthma and lead poisoning.

Many different poisons work by disrupting the balance of the soup in one way or another.

Conventional chemotherapy agents work by indiscriminately poisoning and killing rapidly - dividing cells, including cancer cells, by damaging cellular machinery and DNA.

Today's real cool fact of the day is that holistic medicine is used by about half the world's population and that the WHO, the World Health Organization, which is not a friend of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 % of the world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that way.

He dates his interest in alternative medicine to his own recovery from chronic fatigue and pesticide poisoning in 1993, and reports he is influenced and inspired by the work of Linus Pauling and Mathias Raft, M.D.

This evidence, combined with a very low trace and toxic mineral content (usually in parts per million), supports the concept that diatomaceous earth works by removing toxins that poison the immune and regulatory functions, rather than by adding trace minerals that support these processes.62

The compounds in the Plantain work by neutralizing the urushiol oil (from poison ivy) that bonds to the proteins in the skin, causing the rash reaction.

Played by one of the great grump actresses of our day, Bette Midler, Mona and her poison demeanor soon discover that the brakes on her son's Yugo are not in full working order (everyone in this film has a Yugo but that's another story.)

For example, in Rhode Island, where illness caused by asthma and lead poisoning from poor housing was a main reason for chronic absenteeism, the schools were able to work with groups to find new housing or get rid of these dangerous substances.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

Cats are already susceptible to kidney issues as they get older, without the kidneys themselves having to work harder to overcome the blood poisoning caused by infected bites and abscesses.

Featuring work by Raul De NIeves, Thomas DeLaney, Chris Uphues, Erik Zajaceskowski, Rachel Nelson, Cameron Michel, Vashti Windish, Korey Helburst, Dave Kadden, Alexandra Drewschin, Greg Fox, Zachary Lehrhoff, Eli Lehrhoff, Poison Dartz, Ovary Reaction, Barry London, and Kid Mi.

Much of the work (from SFr35, 000 to SFr4.5 m, about # 27,000 to # 3.5 m) involves bold, expressive elements (thick impasto brushstrokes and vibrant colours) to play up the political themes and social commentary that touch on the issues of the decade (Aids; the Iran - Iraq war; the rise of global warming; advertising as art)-- from the playful, pop - art figures by Haring and Kenny Scharf (Rosso Ruska Rougette, 1984, first picture), to the street art of Rene Ricard (Poison, 1989, second picture) and Jean - Michel Basquiat (Untitled, 1981, third picture).

Working across a variety of media, from resin, silicon, PVC print and iron to aluminium, bamboo wood and reflective fabric, the works are separated from the viewers by a river of poisoned water, which, recalling such mythological rivers as the Styx and the Acheron, situates them in a limbo.

Children in Bangladesh are poisoned by tanneries when they bathe in ponds of water contaminated by untreated tannery effluent and work at tanning hides directly in pools of chemicals.

For example, I would argue that Marty Lipton created the poison pill defense to hostile takeovers out of empathy for the businesspeople whose work was being ravaged by the takeover trolls of that age.

Johnson, who is black, claimed that the work environment at GM had been poisoned by racism and, as a result, he had been constructively dismissed.

The Court began by recognizing that an allegation of a poisoned work environment can have serious implications for all involved.

At trial, she claimed that she was forced to work in a poisoned work environment and was mistreated by her manager.

In yet another reversal by the Court of Appeal for Ontario of a trial judge's findings in an employment case, GM reviews when the court will endorse a finding of a poisoned work environment.

An example of a constructive dismissal that would fall under this branch would be an employee who claims constructive dismissal triggered by a poisoned work environment.

Accidents involving work related machinery, poisoning, falls, suffocation, choking, drowning, and fires generally are covered by an accidental death and dismemberment policy.

Many couples who have come to parting think that because the well of their marriage is so polluted by anger, strife and bitterness — in short, that because conflict has poisoned the marriage at its roots — a collaborative divorce can not work and traditional... Continue reading →

Many couples who have come to parting think that because the well of their marriage is so polluted by anger, strife and bitterness — in short, that because conflict has poisoned the marriage at its roots — a collaborative divorce can not work and traditional court battle is their only way out.