What's the difference between danger and endangerment?

Danger


Definition:

  • (n.) Authority; jurisdiction; control.
  • (n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
  • (n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
  • (n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
  • (n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
  • (v. t.) To endanger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (2) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
  • (3) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (4) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (5) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
  • (7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (8) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (10) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (11) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (12) When in addition the serum P is low (which was a feature of male patients), the danger exists for osteomalacia to develop.
  • (13) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (14) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
  • (15) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (16) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (17) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
  • (18) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
  • (19) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
  • (20) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.

Endangerment


Definition:

  • (n.) Hazard; peril.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Connolly told a local paper , “Our position, if the termination for parental rights is granted, is that [she] would not have standing to obtain the abortion.” He’s arguing that Doe’s parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.
  • (2) Furthermore, the time-course of this effect suggests the relatively rapid metabolic actions of CORT as critical to this endangerment.
  • (3) This GC endangerment of the hippocampus is energetic in nature, as it can be prevented when neurons are supplemented with additional energy substrates.
  • (4) In such cases the release of aggressiveness has been provoked, as a rule, by immediate endangerment of the self and by uncertain sexual identity.
  • (5) In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state's "chemical endangerment" law.
  • (6) By a new method of cluster analysis which examines 80 attributes in each of 350 patients, the following types of parasuicide emerge: (1) operant, not alienated; (2) repeaters; (3) depressed with high life endangerment; (4) operant and alienated; (5) wristcutters; (6) undifferentiated.
  • (7) Basic information about each of the reported cases is presented, as well as the sentences given the adult mothers charged with the crime of child endangerment.
  • (8) Gazprom doesn't want attention drawn to its reckless endangerment of the Russian Arctic and our shared climate, as they tow rusting drill rigs up into the world's most hostile seas.
  • (9) In one example a 21-year-old black woman was levied $150,000 related to five charges including reckless endangerment and throwing missiles at a vehicle.
  • (10) Some states do not allow termination of pregnancy for maternal indications after 24 weeks, and the definition of maternal endangerment has rarely been addressed and remains vague.
  • (11) The New York grand jury could have considered multiple charges, from murder to a lesser offense such as reckless endangerment, but the Staten Island district attorney, Daniel Donovan, said jurors found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges .
  • (12) In Trinidad the government responded to public outrage over the game against the USA by opening a commission of inquiry into allegations of fraud over bogus match tickets and the endangerment of the lives of football fans.
  • (13) But child-endangerment standards remain murky in Colorado, with wide disparities in how local child-protection officers and law enforcement approach pot, said Rob Corry, a Denver lawyer who successfully argued the father's custody appeal.
  • (14) In a democracy, issues certainly stop being only political when they give rise to domestic human rights violations and endangerment."
  • (15) While he and his wife were there preparing for the move, the state of Kansas took five of their children, ages 5 to 16, into custody on suspicion of child endangerment, ensnaring his family in interstate marijuana politics.
  • (16) In a democracy, issues certainly stop being only political when they give rise to domestic human rights violations and endangerment.
  • (17) "An endangerment finding from the EPA could result in a top-down, command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project," said Thomas Donohue, the chamber's president.
  • (18) The endangerment caused by the blood contents of spray formed in the course of oonserving and prosthetical work of dentists performed by dental drill was examined.
  • (19) The methodology creates a conflict between the avoidance of endangerment and informed consent.
  • (20) This energetic endangerment might arise from the ability of GCs to inhibit glucose transport into both hippocampal neurons and astrocytes.

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