Another distraction is exaggerating the threat of inflation.

Prenatal diagnosis is available, and is useful when a known genetic risk factor is present.

With each additional risk factor, the odds of long term damage to brain architecture increase.

Gluttony was once a sin obesity is now a disease (or a risk factor for other diseases).

Psychosis could cause cannabis use, rather than vice versa, or an unknown mediating factor could cause both cannabis use and psychosis.

A mutation in these genes also leads to an increased risk of developing ovarian tumors.

Worldwide, its fatality numbers dwarf those caused by any other risk factor in any other context.

A complicating factor is that contemporary intra state conflicts are characterized by numerous small factions and splinter groups, making it virtually impossible to obtain the consent of all parties to the peace process.

(b) The act in question is likely to create a comparable or greater peril.

Smoking is a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer).

These studies led to the suggestion that the use of paracetamol may represent an important risk factor in the development of asthma.

For this reason, the WHO considers pollution a risk factor a threat to human health similar to obesity, smoking, malnutrition or poor exercise.

That burden is disproportionately borne by developing countries and impoverishing them further.

Recognizing that the maintenance of nuclear weapons systems at a high level of readiness increases the risk of the use of such weapons, including the unintentional or accidental use, which would have catastrophic consequences,

This would reinforce the need for inter communal cooperation and minimize the risk of a return to any form of communal domination or dictatorship.

This would reduce the risk of reliance on only one vendor and would provide some competitiveness.

Another factor that could lead to renewed instances of child abduction are renewed population movements connected with the return of IDPs and refugees to their homes.

The risk that China will experience a hard landing in the next two years may further hurt many emerging economies.

It can also cause nerve damage, eventually leading to paralysis.

The purchasing power of the population is steadily deteriorating, resulting in successive strikes by civil servants.

By addressing economic instability through pro consumption rebalancing, and political instability by removing Bo, stability has gone from a risk factor to an ironclad commitment.

Thousands of hectares of agricultural land were not exploited because of the danger of mines, thereby substantially impeding the economic development of those regions.

But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.

Picking and choosing which challenges to care about only increases the risk that they will become intractable problems instead.

The modernization of agriculture can also increase the risk that rights to biogenetic resources will be concentrated in large commercial enterprises.

Heat kills. A heat wave in France in 2003 caused an estimated 35,000 deaths, and a hot spell similar to the one Britain had last month caused more than 2,000 deaths, according to official estimates.

Some feel envious of their economic neighbours, which can lead to greedy, risky investing.

It creates cost control and cost reduction pressures from the start, leading to greater efficiency.

Nearly five million workers are engaged in the Iranian carpet industry, making it one of the biggest enterprises in the country.

Genetics may contribute to the risk of developing other psychological conditions, such as anxiety or depression, which could in turn lead to self harming behaviour.

Consumption remains too high, at nearly 70 of GDP, compared to an unsustainably low 35.6 of GDP in China.

One of the dancers puts a Discolite Boombox on, blaring the music through the house.

Back of the envelope calculations suggest that, worldwide, technological change could easily lead to the loss of 5 10 million jobs each year.

It is our view that a build up of such weapons poses a real threat to our people and to national, regional and international security and is a destabilizing factor for countries.

Between October 23 24, 2007 the comet suffered a sudden outburst which caused it to brighten by factor of about half a million.

As a result, governments now probe one another s defenses every day, increasing the risk of accidental hostilities.

As noted by several members of the Committee, there was a danger of the legislation on terrorism being too vague.

His delegation drew attention to a factor obstructing his country's sustainable development, i.e. the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

Proteins in the third layer (VP7 and the VP4 spike) disrupt the membrane of the endosome, creating a difference in the calcium concentration.

An increasing number of women were also being held in remand, heightening incarceration statistics still further.

The Board is again concerned that further extension of the design phase may result in further delays in the overall implementation of the capital master plan, with increased cost implications.

Low interest rates strengthen the ability to pay, and thus boost demand.

The different services of support are undeveloped it makes them even more isolated and affects their mental conditions.

Such is the gender bias.

The fact that, during the transition, mortality reductions usually precede fertility reductions leads to a period of rapid population growth.