(1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(2) Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which are important components of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, induce a number of host responses both beneficial and harmful.
(3) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(4) I realise now that the drug is far less harmful then I believed at the time.
(5) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
(6) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(8) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
(9) Repeat patients were more likely to threaten to harm others, have a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, conduct or oppositional disorder and be under the care of a child welfare agency.
(10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(12) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
(13) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(14) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(15) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
(16) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
(17) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
(18) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(19) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
(20) Education can increase compliance and sometimes modify harmful behavior.
Jeopardize
Definition:
(v. t.) To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tends to protect the myocyte in starvation but jeopardizes the older cell.
(2) Minor technical errors may jeopardize the patency of femoral-popliteal bypass grafts.
(3) Adhesions were formed at the site of the anastomosis to such an extent as to jeopardize the proper position of the bowel.
(4) It has increased costs, jeopardized the delivery of necessary medical services, and corroded the physician-patient relationship with mistrust and poor morale.
(5) Assuming that unrecognized or inadequately corrected hypovolemia results in higher mortality and morbidity rates, we developed a systematic approach to resuscitation that would: 1) identify criteria to aid in the recognition of hypovolemia and ensure the expeditious correction of this defect without interfering with diagnostic workup and management; 2) define criteria to prevent fluid overload which may jeopardize the patient's course, and 3) express these criteria in an explicit, systematic, patient care algorithm, ie, protocol, useful to both the resident and the practicing physician.
(6) Although a noreflow phenomenon was observed in the jeopardized tissue, Gd-DOTA concentration was higher in the subendocardial central ischemic zone than in normally perfused myocardium.
(7) Intrauterine infusion of nutrient supplements and methods to improve fetal acid-base balance may eventually be incorporated into the management protocols of the jeopardized growth-retarded fetus.
(8) Early restoration of flow may salvage the jeopardized myocardium.
(9) Suture anastomotic techniques should be used which minimize endothelial trauma and thus avoid subendothelial tissue reactions which in turn may jeopardize long-term patency and growth at anastomotic sites.
(10) In this paper we present a simple statistical analysis of two networks similar to the Hopfield net, and show that the usage of positive feedback enhances the net recognizing capability without jeopardizing the stability.
(11) Collaterals from PD could be recognized as jeopardized vessels and these collaterals probably participated in the ischemic attack.
(12) This was associated with significant improvement in fractional shortening in the jeopardized zone at 24 hr after reperfusion.
(13) Postoperative complications can jeopardize the results of surgery.
(14) James Bopp, the former chief counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, has written that early bans on abortion could wind up being “a powerful weapon in the hands of pro-abortion lawyers that would jeopardize all current laws on abortion”.
(15) When referred to a surgeon, a pregnant woman with a suspicious mammary mass deserves an expedient histologic diagnosis; delay may jeopardize the chances of survival.
(16) Renewed efforts are under way to apply clinically oriented coronary venous retroperfusion methods for treatment of myocardium jeopardized by major coronary artery obstructions.
(17) For these reasons, physicians have a special opportunity and ethical obligation to resist and oppose torture as well as to support physicians whose lives or professional careers are jeopardized by their refusal to participate in torture.
(18) Four senior government officials” described the content of her emails to New York Times journalists in minute detail “on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to jeopardize their access to secret information”.
(19) In a strictly controlled outpatient programme the need for dilatation and curettage can be greatly reduced without jeopardizing the safety of the patient.
(20) These, and the other departures from normal structure described, must jeopardize monitoring of muscle activity in the manner normally attributed to spindles and their capacity to provide useful proprioceptive information is questionable.