Sentences with phrase «year dying as»

Because that's when Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum launched its much - publicised report (pdf) revealing that it's actually 300,000 people per year dying as a result of climate change.
Environment Canada research estimates that, in addition to the impacts of climate change and habitat loss, 130 to 433 million birds a year die as a result of people.

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Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.
But a cure is still a long ways off, and for many, an ALS diagnosis spells a death sentence — often, patients die within five years as they lose the ability to control their muscles, eat, and breathe.
The 45 - year - old actress and her lifestyle brand are under fire for promoting severe weight loss and teaching people «how to be as thin as possible without dying,» according to one critic.
Jeremy died a few years ago but he is fondly remembered as an incredible boss who really cared for his staff.
More than 2,600 pedestrians are injured from motor - vehicle - related accidents in B.C. every year, and as many as 67 of those die as a result.
The numbers are getting lower each year as more sharks die as by - catch in fishing operations and get hunted for their dorsal fins.
About 20 years ago, Och's father passed away around the same time as Prince's mother died.
Graham has served as senator since 2003, when he replaced Strom Thurmond, the longest - serving senator in U.S history who died that year.
Between 700 and 900 women die each year in the U.S. from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, and the rate has risen even as it has declined in other wealthy countries.
Ailes, who resigned from his positions as chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network amid sexual harassment allegations last year, has died.
As her dying wish, 8 - year - old Delaney Brown, who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2013, wanted to see Christmas carolers at her door.
As the name implies, term life insurance will provide a death benefit if an individual dies within the policy's term, up to 20 years typically.
Although Roper's friend died within the year, one thing he remembered most clearly was his friend's unflinching positivity, even as it became clear that she would not survive her ordeal.
Those with chronic health conditions who are dying for lack of proper care are not counted as official hurricane deaths, but the island's forensics institute reported 472 more deaths in September compared with the previous year.
The disorder eats away at motor functions and disrupts voluntary muscles; patients usually die within three to five years of the first symptoms as they lose their ability to breathe.
Neanderthal bones found in a Spanish cave have been dated to 430,000 years ago, suggesting their ancestors left Africa nearly half a million years ago and ventured across Europe as far as southern Siberia before dying out only a few tens of thousands of years ago.
While Yo's popularity died down as the year progressed, Arbel is looking to keep the app relevant by using its location feature to receive anything from recommendations to weather updates.
After his death, Wallace's longtime editor cobbled together the pages he'd been working on before he died and published them last year as the novel the Pale King.
Unlike humans, who are more likely to die in the following year as they age, businesses that survive past the first two years are less likely to die in each subsequent year.
After Bushnell moved to Los Angeles with his family 13 years ago, he didn't talk to Jobs as frequently, though he made a final visit about six months before he died.
Another 600,000 people die each year as a result of alcohol consumption, and about 200,000 die each year as a result to air pollution, according to the project.
On the other hand, close to as much as 29 times that amount — 1 million people — die of cancer every year from smoking tobacco.
As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death tolAs many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death tolas 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death toll.
Ezring's first wife, who served as the company's bookkeeper, died four years ago.
For the past several years, it seemed as if publishers and brands were going to live and die by the hands of the platforms.
If a participant dies prior to December 15 of a plan year he or she will not be treated as having «retired» even if he or she was eligible to retire at the time of death.
As Bloomberg News reports, Senator John Kennedy has written the company's president to demand an explanation for why 18 animals died in its care last year.
Health officials in Texas have already announced the death of a 77 - year - old Harris county resident from Vibrio: She came into contact with flood waters when they ripped into her home, and later died as a result of flesh - eating disease.
By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.
When Moses died two years later, Sarah and A'Lelia moved to St. Louis, where Sarah's brothers had established themselves as barbers.
Mitchell, who died two years ago at age 94, was reportedly among those urging for tighter regulation of the practice, fearing that small, independent drillers might take dangerous shortcuts as they rushed to participate in a historic oil boom.
Most (unsuccessful) bloggers don't schedule their posts and, as a result, most blogs die before they turn one year old.
For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.
This is known in bioethics as the «duty to die» and has been debated for years in professional discourse.
She said: «My twenty - nine - year - old daughter's choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and intense pain does not deserve to be labelled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.
A man who died when an old church building collapsed in Cardiff has been named as a 55 year old man from the Welsh capital.
How about the roughly 3 billion people who have died as a direct result of religious wars, sacrifices and persecutions over the last 10,000 years?
«For those who did not attend church at all, they were twice as likely to die prematurely than those who attended church at some point over the last year
I have been an ICU Nurse for many years, people who die are not as interested in religion as their families are... people even near death are often just in the moment and just want to be comfortable
Twenty years in the ER — She is absolutely right about what most people need / want to do as they die.
Considering what happens when I die is easily summed up - it's exactly the same as the billions of years before my existence... which didn't bother me a bit.
As far as I'm aware, that generation died off roughly 1900 years agAs far as I'm aware, that generation died off roughly 1900 years agas I'm aware, that generation died off roughly 1900 years ago.
This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.
How can people claim to follow the teachings of their God, but still look the other way as millions die needlessly each year?
And for those who are bad at math, Christ suppoesdly died nearly 2000 years ago, not a few «centuries» as this page seems to represent.
Several years before he died in 430, Augustine began to read through all his writings and wrote what we know today as the Retractiones, a title that might be translated as «reconsiderations.»
• When in 1993 he died at the age of nearly ninety, Hans Jonas was full of years and honors, although not as many honors as his work warranted.
If there was any God as you think, and he was in any way loving, he would not let millions of children die of starvation and disease every year.
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