Sentences with phrase «year black death»

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Federal officials said black lung has caused roughly 78,000 deaths since the late 1960s and there has been a resurgence of it in recent years, especially in eastern Kentucky.

The week began with the death of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was shot multiple times by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as he lay on the ground outside a convenience store.

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

The shooting death of a 12 - year - old black boy named Tamir Rice by two white Cleveland Police Department officers.

Dylann Roof has been found guilty of murdering nine black church members who were shot to death during a Bible study session in South Carolina last year.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

Conversely, after the subsequent death of several unarmed black men in the following years, I was attending my church in LA, and each time, no mention or acknowledgment was made.

Two years ago I wore black for the entire Lenten season as a symbol of my grief over the death of our Lord, and I also wore black in solidarity for the suffering that is experienced in this world by so many people.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

More broadly, the push for grand jury reform began last year, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a New York City police officer in the choke hold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody last year, immediately renewed questions of whether any of the six police officers charged in the case would be convicted in connection with his death.

The US Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.

The two officers were shot --» assassinated,» as the mayor and police commissioner put it — through the window of their patrol car by 28 - year - old Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who posted on social media that he was out for revenge for the police - related deaths of unarmed black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

It's not the first unexpected thing to crop up for City Hall in Mr. de Blasio's inaugural year, nor is it unrelated to another unforeseen circumstance: the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, as police tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.

-- DE BLASIO KOWTOWS TO POLICE — New York Times Editorial Board: «Like so many other black men in the United States, Eric Garner has been denied justice even in death... Hope for any justice probably lies in Mayor Bill de Blasio and his police commissioner, James O'Neill, doing what should have been done years ago: firing Officer Pantaleo.

But on Capitol Hill, party strategists are nervously taking stock of Donovan, who oversaw the grand jury investigation that declined to indict the officers involved in the July chokehold death of Eric Garner, a 43 - year - old black man.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Social Justice spokesperson, Peter Black AM, has called on Welsh Labour Government to do more to tackle fuel poverty after figures have shown that there were 640 more «excess winter deaths» last year compared to the previous year.

Mr. Oddo pointed out that Mr. Donovan, whose office is tasked with investigating the death of the unarmed 43 - year - old black man who was put in an apparent chokehold by police, once worked for legendary former Manhattan District Attorney and Democrat Robert Morgenthau.

Mr. Donovan became a controversial figure nationally after a grand jury he impaneled decided not to indict a white NYPD officer involved in the death of black Staten Islander Eric Garner last year — but he proved tonight his support remained strong in his home borough, which is roughly 70 percent white and home to many cops and their families.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.

Buildings that burn No. 6 and No. 4 heating oil belch black smoke that Stringer says contributes to 3,000 deaths a year.

Beginning in the mid-14th century with the Black Death and continuing with successive waves, the deadly pestilence sucker - punched Europe's population for 300 years, killing hundreds of millions of people in all — between one - third and one - half of the populace.

In addition, an analysis of the corrected rates over the decade revealed that white women's rates of death from cervical cancer decreased by 0.8 percent per year, compared with an annual decrease of 3.6 percent in black women.

The bubonic types responsible for the medieval Black Death and recent outbreaks emerged about 3,000 years ago from a mutation that made Y. pestis flea - borne.

Before the Black Death (Eurasia 3,000 - 5,000 years ago) In 2015, geneticists discovered aDNA from plague - causing Yersina pestis bacteria in the teeth of Bronze Age Eurasians, revealing that less - contagious strains infected people millennia before historically documented pandemics.

Cutting that source of black carbon could help reduce the estimated 1.5 million premature deaths per year attributed to biofuel soot, Jacobson said.

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The plague has caused death and destruction in Europe at least since Roman times, launching at least three major pandemics that changed the course of history — the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 544, which weakened the Byzantine Empire; the Black Death, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 ydeath and destruction in Europe at least since Roman times, launching at least three major pandemics that changed the course of history — the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 544, which weakened the Byzantine Empire; the Black Death, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 yDeath, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 years.

«And yet more than six of every 10 black trauma patients are served each year in high - mortality hospitals, which increases their risk of death.

The authors speculate that if use of varenicline had not plummeted by 76 percent following the black box warning in 2009, perhaps 17,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular disease may have been avoided each year during the last few years.

Three years ago researchers at the University of the Mediterranean in France thought they had settled the matter when they examined three Black Death victims and found segments of Yersinia DNA in their teeth.

In men ages 15 to 44 years, American Indians or Alaska Natives (whose numbers were small) had the highest rates of death from legal intervention, but blacks and African Americans, and white Hispanics or Latinos all had rates that were significantly higher than those experienced by non-Hispanic whites and Asians or Pacific Islanders.

The Third Pandemic in Asia early in the 20th century killed 10 million people, the medieval black death probably killed more than a quarter of Europeans, and Justinian's plague, which broke out in A.D. 542, raged for about 50 years, killing 100 million people.

In five years, Black Death wiped out an estimated 30 to 50 percent of Europe's population.

Dan Miles, an independent dendrochronologist, used the tree ring record to date the building to 1335, 15 years before the Black Death.

The Black Death may have decimated Europe nearly 700 years ago, but it's still leaving an impact on people today.

Between 2005 and 2011, deaths from short gestation / low birthweight decreased for black infants but have plateaued in recent years.

A long - standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of years later during the deaths of the earliest stars.

These are black holes that are a few to a few dozen times the mass of our sun that were likely formed by the death of very massive stars after they'd run out of fuel and exploded as supernovas billions of years ago.

I've worn my black one (see it in a post here) to death in the past two years, to the point where it's lost any coolness I used to think it has, so when my sister gave me this one, which incidentally was passed down to her from my aunt, I couldn't say no!

I «invested» in both black and white versions and have been wearing them both to death, busting out the black tomorrow night for New Years Eve.

I have a very similar black version from a couple years ago that I have worn to death - I wear it to work over dresses and at home with yoga pants!

The social requisite was to wear black from anywhere between three months two and a half years after the death of loved one.

My inner rocker chick piece... my black leather trousers, which I've worn to death... year after year:)

Well Im in college, 21 years old, I love anime (obviously), I have red hair ummm some of my favorite animes are Naruto Fairy Tail Black Butler DBZ Death Note Yu Yu Hakusho Hell girl Bunny Drop Natsume's book of friends and many more:P I also like to play video games:)

The following year she had some success for her supporting role in Neil LaBute's remake of Frank Oz's black comedy Death at a Funeral, in which she co-starred with Danny Glover, Peter Dinklage, and Martin Lawrence, among others.

More than appreciably darker, Batman Begins tackles the story's essential Freudian / Jungian mooring, returning over and over to the dank, vaginal tunnel that a young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has tied inextricably to the death of his parents until the moment that a grown Bruce, after a self - imposed exile of seven years, penetrates the black pit of his divorce from his parents to find himself reborn, as it were, underground.

Shane Black's The Predator is leaving February next year and headed to 3 August, replaced by Maze Runner: The Death Cure, which slots into its place for a 9 February arrival.