Sentence examples for hazard owing from inspiring English sources

Graduated compression stockings (GCS) are widely used to prevent venous thromboembolism; however, GCS are slippery and a fall hazard owing to the synthetic fibers.

Sodium borohydride presents a fire hazard owing to its reducing nature and the liberation of hydrogen on contact with acid.

One major threat to cities at present is the increased inundation hazards owing to changes in climate and accelerated human activity.

In the twenty-first century arable lands on the Great Hungarian Plain will face increasing environmental hazards owing to the unfavorable trends of the climate change on the basis of regional climate model simulations (REMO and ALADIN).

Using the forecasts of the ground thermal regime23, a consensus of three geohazard indices (Methods), and infrastructure data products we identified central infrastructure hazard areas (i.e., areas of near-surface permafrost thaw and high hazard indicated by the consensus index) and quantified infrastructure elements potentially at risk owing to climate change.

Today: Health workers in Liberia demand six months of unpaid hazard benefits owed to them by the government, Iran is deporting thousands of undocumented Afghan refugees, El Salvador merged inmates belonging to rival gangs in prison, and Thailand has six months to clean up its fishing industry or face a ban by the EU.

Other than partial sample preservation, this provides lower hazards to the analyst, owing to shorter sample handling time and lower probability of radioisotopes volatilization or their turning to aerosols.

Thus, if suitability has been downgraded owing to erosion hazard, a new land-use type could be designed with the addition of contour-aligned hedgerows or other soil conservation measures.

In 2007, millions of toys made in China were recalled from multiple countries owing to safety hazards including lead paint.

Recent evidence suggests that micro-computed tomography scans, which enable three-dimensional imaging, might provide a solution but use so far has necessarily been limited to ex vivo assessment owing to radiation hazards as well as technical and accessibility issues.

Such a rapid rise may be partly attributed by meeting unmet needs of healthcare for the vulnerable groups, and partly owing to moral hazards associated with both demand for, and supply of, healthcare in China.