Meaning of dangerosity | Babel Free
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The quality of being dangerous.
uncountable
Examples
“Naturally inquisitive, I ran the gauntlet of the place at the risk of my life. Remarking upon the “dangerosity” and its evident mismanagement to a stranger who proved to belong to the Forest City, he exclaimed. “Dangerous, well I should smile, and this is the great Union Depot of St. Louis.[…]””
“He told of his dangerosity and liability to start an explosion that would blow up the court house and make the people in Lost Nation hunt their cyclone cellars.”
“For a long time now the United States Senate has contained a mining man; sometimes there have been two or three of them; but always one sturdy representative of those sturdier pioneers and prospectors who, daring dangers of increditable dangerosity, have delved into the bosom of old Mother Earth and brought forth her glittering treasures—or have not brought them forth, as the case may be.”
“A recent survey showed that 60 per cent of murders committed in the United States were at the hands of women. The peak of their dangerosity was set as the month of July.”
“Why should a hunting licence be granted without checking the “dangerosity” of the applicant?”
“A comprehensive measure of dangerosity of a given highway section of length L (km) may be developed by formula of the following type:[…]where AADT volumes on each section within each group are roughly equal, the absolute dangerosity of a given highway section of length L (km) may be assumed as a useful tool for the identification of black spots.[…]On the basis of accident and traffic data for 1960 and 1965 two relative 'dangerosity studies, by calculating indexes (1) and (2), were conducted by Bottaro.”
“Prof. Trani gives formulae for calculating the relative dangerosity of a road section of a given length.”
“For one thing, we are going to be making those who are not dangerous dangerous by labelling them and those who are dangerous we are going to reinforce their dangerosity again by labelling and treating them.”
“The only other alternative is that if an inmate committed some act during his period of incarceration that could be considered in the vein of dangerosity, under the proposed legislation he could be so charged, and perhaps convicted, notwithstanding that he is an inmate of an institution.”
“He is observed and tested for weeks to determine his various needs and his degree of dangerosity[…]In addition, the degree of dangerosity of an inmate is constantly reviewed during his incarceration.”
“Pitiless punishment of offences, on the theory of defence against “dangerosity”, as the only means of controlling crime, is rejected, along with theories of punishment based on vengeance, expiation or retribution.”
“Offender typologies have proven to be most effective in the prison context, especially in terms of Dawe’s dangerosity indicators.”
“[…]better use of the records which exist in the system to give an early warning about the character and “dangerosity”, as they say, of an individual offender.”
“To this end, useful suggestions for the legislator can derive from a rational and systematic application of criminological expertise on the grounds of judicial verification of dangerosity, both in the ambit of the present discretion of the judge in the matter, and ”de jure condendo” as a corrective of the cases in point of presumption and, above all in the re-examination of dangerosity.”
“One has the impression that at one stage the medical authorities involved in the treatment of Emerson Bonnar acted somehow as if a diagnosis such as schizophrenia, mental deficiency and dangerosity were criteria to consider somebody unfit to stand trial.”
“While dangerousness has been accorded an increasingly high profile in psychiatric decision making, at the same time the overwhelming evidence indicates that psychiatrists are unable to predict the “dangerosity” of their patients with any approximation of scientific precision.”
“We have reviewed the selection criteria, and seen that the factor given the most weight seemed to be the “dangerosity” of the criminal, especially in combination with the crime that had been committed;”
“The misconception is that Beaver Creek is all white-collar criminals. We do get most of those, but there aren’t very many of them in jail. The biggest factor considered in sending people here is the dangerosity — how big a threat he person is to the community”
“Senator Lapointe: You are recommending programs to reduce “dangerosity”. What kind of programs would they be? Would these programs be conducted in prison?”
“The original criteria for admission into Special Handling Units was demonstrated dangerosity within the institution, chronic disruptiveness, or refusal to cooperate within the structures of the existing institution.[…]A major related concern is that the preoccupation with internal security is exacerbating the problem of dangerosity in society upon the release of some inmates.[…]Inmates to be kept in isolation only for that period of time required to defuse the dangerosity.”
“The concept of « dangerosity » as applied to a single individual excludes other forms of social violence.”
“Prison authorities ask themselves “how likely are they (inmates) to try to escape and how dangerous are they likely to be to the public if they succeed,” [Dennis] Curtis said. Then “the dangerosity” of the inmate is matched to the security rating of the prison, he said.”
“At the same time the penal model gets more complex: beside the deterrence through penalty appears the diagnosis of dangerosity, which can lead to elimination if considered incurable or to “treatment” if considered curable.”
“Criminality and Dangerosity of Mental Patients in the Community: Are They Preventable?”
“One of the problems is that it is very difficult to predict “dangerosity”.”
“Statistical approach of dangerosity in mentally ill subjects.”
“[…]specialists should be the subject of research evaluation in conjunction with more elaborate undertakings for assessing characteristics of dangerosity of the entire population.”
“We are equally concerned about your awareness of the public perception of youth, youth offenses and youth dangerosity.”
“The uncanny animal figure entailed by the dangerosity of the rival, who separates the subject from the mother, is also the one which is linked with seduction.”
“Literature is always dangerous, and no prize means that someone’s literature has lost its “dangerosity” (if I can use this strange word). Think of Faulkner: his novels are very somber and pessimistic descriptions of the human being.”
“In court, however, this judiciary « objectivity » contributes to build the moral dangerosity of the homo criminalis and mark the sentence motivation.”
“Experiments corresponding to realized simulations would allow to confirm presented results concerning the relative dangerosity of configurations.[…]Comparisons have been made as a function of its relative dangerosity.”
“On the basis of runoff coefficients based on land-use, slopes, and soil properties, Popescu et al. (2004) proposed an original method for quantifying a lateral “dangerosity” coefficient, taking into account how easily infiltration can occur in the considered pixel for a contaminant originating from another surface location in the catchment. This lateral dangerosity accounting for the lateral impact of a contamination is combined to a direct dangerosity accounting for the direct impact.”
“This means that in order to describe the dangerosity of projectiles we require specific criteria based on the effects they may have on the human body.”
“Commotio cordis is characterized by a projectile impacting the chest and leading to sudden cardiac death, but without creating material damage. In fact, the dangerosity of such impacts depends much on the precise time during the heart beat at which they occur: they are much more dangerous if applied during diastole.”
“Another extension deals with the issue of dangerosity. Indeed, one of goals of Instructions nautiques is to alert the navigator on possible dangers. Ideally, the ENC should automatically send queries about dangerosity to the knowledge base involving the current position of the vessel and various external conditions, and in case of a positive answer, alert the navigator by all means possible.”
“This mass destruction theme is present throughout the series, in the form of two nuclear blasts (in the first two games) as well as terrorist gas attacks (in the third one). Added to other recurring themes such as the potential dangerosity of isolated men (the three main antagonists of each game) or the threat posed by an alliance formed between a Middle Eastern dictator and terrorist forces, this theme deeply links post—9/11 reality and fiction.”
“At the periphery nations accept an allegory that explains further on their dangerosity, but in blaming others, central nations face an atmosphere of terror given by the internal enemy.”
“An emergency department psychiatry workgroup is finalizing a dangerosity tool that will be used by staff to recognize at-risk-of-violence patients, and flag them in our Med-Urge system.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.