What's the difference between endangerment and risk?

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 He’s arguing that Doe’s parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.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.

Risk


Definition:

  • (n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
  • (n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
  • (n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
  • (n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (3) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (4) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
  • (5) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (6) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
  • (7) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
  • (8) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (9) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (10) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (11) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (12) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (13) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (14) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (15) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
  • (16) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
  • (17) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
  • (18) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
  • (19) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
  • (20) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.

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