Sentence examples for chance of harmful from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jaczko was asked if the meltdown of a core of one of the reactors would increase the chance of harmful radiation reaching Hawaii or the West Coast.

There are countless examples of inbred societies, island populations, populations that are isolated geographically in Africa, where because of inbreeding you have a greater chance of harmful genes taking over the whole frickin' scene.

Another postulated pathway relates to hormones, such as oestrogen, that increase cell proliferation, thereby increasing the chance of harmful mutations occurring during DNA replication.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) defines risk as "the chance of harmful effects to human health or to ecological systems resulting from exposure to an environmental stressor" (U.S. EPA 2011).

Doing so helps to reduce the chance of harmful pests.

It is used widely in medicine to help deliver drugs to the right place in the body, so making them more effective and reducing the chances of harmful side-effects.

In order to prevent such consequences and to reduce the chances of harmful effects on the ecosystem, proper international regulation is needed.

Indeed, the proliferation of new regulatory rules increases the chance of unforeseen, harmful interaction between regulations.

This is our best starting place because it is the nutrient we need in the highest quantities and because it may have the highest chance of being harmful.

Borrowing principles of evolution and biodiversity, scientists have reasoned that tumors originate in stem cell populations, as the innate longevity of stem cells increases the chance of acquiring harmful mutations [ 45].

Little chance of harm there.