(a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
(a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
(a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
(a.) Reserved; not affable.
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.
Hazard
Definition:
(n.) A game of chance played with dice.
(n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
(n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(n.) Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
(n.) To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.
(n.) To venture to incur, or bring on.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) They more precisely delineate the hazard identification process and the factors important in supporting risk decisions for developmental toxicants than does any other document.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(5) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(6) The time to recovery of full consciousness, time to parasite clearance, and mortality were examined with Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis.
(7) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(8) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(9) As for workers potentially exposed to selected chemical hazards, the first survey provides no consistent evidence that such workers were more likely to receive exposure-specific tests than other workers.
(10) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(11) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(12) The purification and concentration of these viruses in their monomeric forms is hazardous when conventional "tube" rotors are used since they invariably result in dissociation and aggregation of the virus particles.
(13) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(14) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(15) However, occupational hazards, toxic and iatrogenic drug-induced aetiologies should not be overlooked.
(16) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(17) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(18) Unvaccinated children had a mortality hazard ratio of 3.0 compared with vaccinated children (P = .002), indicating a protective efficacy against death of 66% (CI 32%-83%) of measles vaccination.
(19) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(20) Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards were carried out in a typical case where chromium was the major pollutant.