Sentence examples for high level of vulnerability from inspiring English sources

We identified 400 families with children who had eight or more risk factors, indicating a potential high level of vulnerability.

Juliet Lyon, the PRT director, says: "Reasons why so many young women behind bars have spent time in care are likely to include the high level of vulnerability, mental health need, emotional damage, neglect, and drug and alcohol addiction".

Those social factors that are relevant to a high level of vulnerability among the elderly are discussed in the penultimate section, which develops the social vulnerability index (SVI) for elders of Hong Kong.

The flag account suggests there is some enduring quality about the target that highlights (flags) its high level of vulnerability to would-be offenders (Pease 1998).4 Different to the boost account, the flag account suggests a repeat offence is likely to be committed by a different offender than who committed the initial offence.

Permanent Supportive Housing is generally reserved for those who are the most vulnerable including people who are chronically homeless who have physical or mental disabilities, and families with a high level of vulnerability such as single parent households where the parent has a disability.

While Lao PDR has a much lower rate of HIV prevalence than neighbouring countries, this least developed nation has a high level of vulnerability to the virus.

Full report [PDF] Summary report [PDF] Regional report[PDF] CEE/CIS map[PDF] The Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) region is highly prone to natural hazards, which often lead to disastrous consequences due to the high level of vulnerabilities and weak coping capacities of the population.

"Much of the continent has little or no infrastructure in place to 'adapt,"' they added, "and very high levels of vulnerability to climate change".

Through this approach, areas with high levels of vulnerability (referred to hereafter as risk zones) are first located and differentiated from other areas within the study region.

The results (Fig. 20 and 21) show that the western and middle part of the research area are dominated by moderate and high levels of vulnerability, while the eastern parts are dominated by low levels of vulnerability.

A survey of 274 herder families, selected using a cluster sampling technique, revealed low, medium and high levels of vulnerability, which were principally distinguished by various degrees of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity.