Sentence examples for proven toxic from inspiring English sources

While Ms. O'Donnell is trailing the Democratic nominee, Chris Coons, by double digits in recent polls, no one can reliably predict her level of support, especially in a year that has proven toxic to favored candidates.

"I don't want my grandkids not to be able to swim in Hawaii or climb a mountain and see a glacier because we didn't do something about it," he added in an unusually personal speech on a subject that has previously proven toxic for his political strategists.

As a result, the list of sunscreen ingredients that are proven toxic is unlikely to grow in the near future.

The nearly 40-year-old TSCA assumes a chemical is safe until proven toxic, and grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency little power to act even when tests show a chemical to be unsafe.

Last fall, Public Advocate Letitia James released a report detailing how popular chemicals used in many nail salons have proven toxic and harmful to human health -- with effects that include headaches, eye and lung irritation, liver and kidney damage, and birth defects.

The swap would essentially shift the burden of proof for chemical safety from the current assumption that a chemical is safe until proven toxic -- generally after it has already spent years on the market -- to a requirement for industry to prove that a chemical is safe prior to placing it on store shelves.

It proved toxic for the vultures feeding on bovine carcases.

But the issue of executive pay continues to prove toxic.

It was the combination that would prove toxic in the media.

When they began losing, it proved toxic for an older team with little to play for.

He blames Mr. Prince for taking on a mountain of risky debt that later proved toxic.