Some studies do suggest that witness exposure without danger to life constitutes a lesser risk for enduring posttraumatic stress symptoms [ 21, 44].
The result would have been that the worst offenders would have gone underground, posing a greater, not lesser, danger to children.
The individual acted with lightning-quickness in accord with accurate judgment of his situation" and exhibited an absence of "paralyzing fright of the sort that can happen in instances of lesser danger"; instead, he felt "calm seriousness, profound acceptance, and a dominant mental quickness and a sense of surety".
At its top is Pakistan, a country that "is likely to stand out in the years ahead as the single most dangerous place in today's world" because of a volatile mix of nuclear weapons, political instability, terrorist networks and Islamic radicalism, but Washington focused instead on the lesser danger that emanated from Baghdad.
It matters little that terrorism as a phenomenon is one of the lesser dangers Americans face in their daily lives and that, for some of the larger ones, ranging from food-borne illnesses to cars, guns, and what's now called "extreme weather," no one would think about building vast bureaucratic structures shrouded in secrecy, funded to the hilt, and offering Americans promises of ultimate safety.
So it takes place not long before Sept. 11, 2001, in a world where characters are still free to worry about lesser dangers.
If more people in each United States community would demand safe routes for bicycles, perhaps both cars and terrorism would gradually become lesser dangers.
There will be a radiation detector at the gate of the access ramp because of hospital waste, but radiation is one of the lesser dangers.
The Republicans emphasized the danger of letting Democrats run the nation so soon after southern Democrats provoked the Civil War and, to a lesser extent, the danger a Democratic administration would pose to the recently won civil rights of southern blacks.
Compared to the study sample the drop-outs were younger and had been exposed to danger to a lesser degree.
