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THERE IS DANGER THAT [23 records]

Record 1 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

Early Childhood Services Act[. New Brunswick. ] The Minister may issue a protection order under this section if, after receiving information from an inspector under subsection 22(8), the Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that(a) there is an imminent danger to the health, safety or well-being of a child who is receiving services at the licensed facility, or(b) the operator has failed to ensure that(i) no child receiving services at the licensed facility is subjected to any form of physical punishment or verbal or emotional abuse, or(ii) no child receiving services at the licensed facility is denied physical necessities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

maltraitance émotionnelle; maltraitance émotive : désignations normalisées par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Organization Planning
  • Urban Studies
CONT

There is a distinct danger that through future utility networks, zoning powers and other regulatory and direct government control, land use planning will become much less flexible so that planners rather than the market place decide the specific location of the future retail centres.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Urbanisme
DEF

Personne chargée d'une opération de planification.

CONT

La solution du problème foncier se pose en termes de répartition du terrain entre les différentes personnes morales et physiques et entre les différents usages. C'est ainsi qu'il apparaît aux planificateurs.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Brush, Prairie and Forest Fires
  • Emergency Management
OBS

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index(FWI) System consists of six components that account for the effects of fuel moisture and weather conditions on fire behavior. The first three components are fuel moisture codes, which are numeric ratings of the moisture content of the forest floor and other dead organic matter. Their values rise as the moisture content decreases. There is one fuel moisture code for each of three layers of fuel : litter and other fine fuels; loosely compacted organic layers of moderate depth; and deep, compact organic layers. The remaining three components are fire behavior indices, which represent the rate of fire spread, the fuel available for combustion, and the frontal fire intensity; these three values rise as the fire danger increases.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Incendies de végétation
  • Gestion des urgences
OBS

La Méthode canadienne de l'indice forêt météo (IFM) est formée de six composantes qui tiennent compte des effets de la teneur en eau des combustibles et des conditions météorologiques sur le comportement du feu. Les trois premières composantes sont des indices d'humidité des combustibles; ce sont des valeurs numériques de la teneur en eau de la litière et d'autres matières organiques mortes. Leur valeur augmente à mesure que la teneur en eau diminue. Il existe un indice d’humidité des combustibles pour chacune des trois couches de combustibles : litière et autres combustibles légers, couches organiques peu tassées de moyenne épaisseur, et épaisses couches organiques compactes. Les trois autres composantes sont des indices de comportement du feu qui représentent la vitesse de propagation du feu, les quantités de combustibles disponibles et l'intensité du feu sur le front de l'incendie; la valeur de ces trois indices est directement proportionnelle au danger d'incendie.

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
CONT

As my learned friend said, this is a fairly circumscribed case, no more than 16 witnesses, and I think there [is] a real danger that we might spend more time arguing over documents than listening to evidence.

OBS

Used by a barrister or solicitor in court to address or refer to another barrister or solicitor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
CONT

Suite [aux remarques], mon estimé collègue [...] va vous décrire à présent le contexte dans lequel les atteintes présumées en question ont été commises dans une présentation plus détaillée de preuves étayant les accusations.

Spanish

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Record 5 2018-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
CONT

Quantum signals are very weak and classical data signals are very strong, so there is a danger [that quantum signals would] be drowned out.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
CONT

Pour des raisons fondamentales, un état quantique inconnu ne peut être ni mesuré ni copié avec précision, de sorte qu'on ne peut pas amplifier un signal quantique.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protection of Life
  • Emergency Management
DEF

A protection measure that is used in case of an actual or perceived danger and that consists in taking immediate refuge in a covered place where one is located, upon hearing public instructions or the alarm, and remaining there for protection until further instructions are provided by the local authorities.

OBS

Sheltering in-place is a protection measure used when evacuating the public would cause greater risk than staying where they are. It consists of three simple steps: first, take immediate refuge indoors in an enclosed place readily accessible at home, work, school, shopping mall or a nearby building; second, perform safety measures, such as closing the doors and windows and sealing an area to keep contaminants out; third, stay inside until the danger has passed.

OBS

Sheltering in-place is part of the in-place protection procedures.

OBS

sheltering in-place; sheltering in place; sheltering in situ; invacuation; in situ sheltering: terms and definition standardized by the Canadian Capability-Based Planning Terminology Committee and the Translation Bureau.

OBS

sheltering in place: term recommended by the Treasury Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Mesure de protection en cas de danger réel ou apparent qui consiste à se réfugier immédiatement dans le lieu couvert où l'on se trouve déjà, dès que l'on entend les instructions publiques ou l'alarme, et d'y rester afin de se protéger jusqu'à réception de nouvelles instructions de la part des autorités locales.

OBS

La mise à l'abri sur place est une mesure de protection utilisée lorsqu'il est plus risqué pour la population d'évacuer un lieu que d'y rester. Elle consiste en trois étapes simples : premièrement, se réfugier immédiatement à l'intérieur d'un lieu accessible et clos son domicile, une école, un centre commercial ou un bâtiment à proximité; deuxièmement, prendre des mesures de précaution comme fermer les portes et les fenêtres et rendre une pièce étanche aux contaminants extérieurs; troisièmement, rester à l'intérieur jusqu'à ce que le danger soit écarté.

OBS

La mise à l'abri sur place fait partie des procédures de protection sur place.

OBS

mise à l'abri sur place : terme et définition normalisés par le Comité de terminologie de la planification axée sur les capacités au Canada et le Bureau de la traduction; terme recommandé par le Conseil du Trésor.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Safety
  • Search and Rescue (Aircraft)
DEF

A situation wherein there is a reasonable certainty that an aircraft and its occupants are threatened by grave and imminent danger or require immediate assistance.

OBS

DETRESFA: the code word used to designate a distress phase.

OBS

distress phase; DETRESFA: term, abbreviation and definition officially approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
  • Recherches et sauvetages (Aviation)
DEF

Situation dans laquelle il y a tout lieu de penser qu'un aéronef et ses occupants sont menacés d'un danger grave et imminent et qu'ils ont besoin d'un secours immédiat.

OBS

DETRESFA : expression conventionnelle désignant une phase de détresse.

OBS

phase de détresse; DETRESFA : terme, abréviation et définition uniformisés par l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale (OACI).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad (Transporte aéreo)
  • Búsqueda y salvamento (Aviación)
DEF

Situación en la cual existen motivos justificados para creer que una aeronave y sus ocupantes están amenazados por un peligro grave e inminente y necesitan auxilio inmediato. [Definición aceptada oficialmente por la OACI.]

OBS

DETRESFA: palabra clave utilizada para designar una fase de peligro.

OBS

fase de peligro; DETRESFA: término y abreviatura aceptados oficialmente por la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI).

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Record 8 2013-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

The reason for the prohibition against self-serving statements made by a party out of court(is) that if such statements were admissible then there would exist the danger that every person would seek to improve his own position in pending or anticipated litigation by making statements in his own favour.(Sopinka & Lederman, p. 141).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

déclaration intéressée : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
  • Social Legislation
CONT

If the judge is convinced that you are a danger and there is no other way to arrange an examination, the judge can issue a Mental Health Warrant. The warrant is authority for a peace officer to apprehend the person identified in the warrant and convey them to a facility for examination.

CONT

Two days later ... the provincial authorities made a second application, introducing new evidence and joining a claim for custody of the fetus with a mental health warrant against the pregnant woman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
  • Législation sociale

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
CONT

The court may give instructions to the supervisory agency and the probation officer concerning their functions.

CONT

There is a real danger that he would give instructions based solely on an earlier experience.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

Il y a fort à parier qu'il donnerait des directives fondées uniquement sur une expérience antérieure.

Spanish

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Record 11 2010-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aquaculture
CONT

When a fish species grown in commercial fish farms is also present in the natural environment, there is an obvious danger of poaching... A solution to the problem is to find a specific marker that can load to a quick and easy discrimination between legal farm-raised fish and illegal wild fish. For the purpose of marketing, the chosen marker should be non toxic, inexpensive to use and easily analysed with reliable results. Nutritional marking appears to fulfill at least the first two conditions. There are several advantages in using nutritional markers for fish...(1) the fish are not stressed by unnecessary handling;(2) once the special marking feed is prepared, there is no additional labor or other cost involved in this technique...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Technique de marquage qui consiste à incorporer dans la diète des poissons, une substance qui sera absorbée par les divers tissus et qui sera facilement détectée.

CONT

Le marquage nutritionnel des ombles de fontaine présente des avantages indéniables sur les autres formes de marquage, car les poissons ne sont pas stressés ou blessés par des manipulations; une fois l'aliment préparé, il n'y a pas de travail ou de coûts supplémentaires, le marquage des poissons se fait en même temps que la pigmentation des chairs.

Spanish

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Record 12 2008-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
OBS

Assistance.

OBS

Life salvage independent of property is a rare occurrence and reported cases this century are almost, if not entirely, non-existent. The principle upon which life salvage is based is that there must be, first of all, actual danger to the persons whose lives have been saved or at least a substantial apprehension of danger. Without this, there is nothing to be salved from.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime

Spanish

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Record 13 2008-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... the common law may have taken the view that there is always the danger that any combination may be oppressive, and may have thought that a general rule against injurious combinations was desirable on broadgrounds of policy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 14 2008-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
OBS

implied assumption of risk : More radical has been the transformation of the defence(of voluntary assumption of risk) in situations where there is no express agreement to modify the ordinary duty relation between the parties. Nineteenth century theory had readily endorsed the proposition that one who encountered a known danger tacitly assumed the risk of an accident, content to absolve anyone responsible for it even if he turned out to be negligent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 15 2007-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining
  • Labour Law
CONT

... the Board's first sort of inclination on receiving this application was to say that well, if it has already been decided, essentially in decision 168, that there is no danger to the health and safety of the public and the bargaining unit wants to exercise a right to strike in respect of that portion of the bargaining unit, that the Board should lean over backwards to ensure that they can exercise the right to strike.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conventions collectives et négociations
  • Droit du travail
CONT

[...] le Conseil a d'abord eu envie de se dire que, si, essentiellement, il avait déjà décidé dans la décision 168 qu'il n'y avait pas de risque pour la santé et la sécurité du public, et que l'unité de négociation souhaite exercer le droit de grève en limitant cet exercice à une partie de l'unité de négociation, il devait faire tout en son pouvoir pour que les employés membres de cette unité puissent exercer le droit de grève.

Spanish

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Record 16 2006-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

... an injunction restraining the performance of an act may be issued regardless of whether it appears to the court that the person to be restrained intended to do the act; previously did the act; or, there is imminent danger of substantial damage to another if the person does the act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

Reproduit de Law Terminology avec l'autorisation du Bureau des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
CONT

Según el artículo 1169 del Código civil de Argentina, la prestación, objeto de un contrato, puede consistir en la entrega de una cosa, o en el cumplimiento de un hecho positivo o negativo, susceptible de una apreciación pecuniaria.

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Record 17 2005-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • CBRNE Weapons
  • Arms Control
CONT

... there is also the danger that a terrorist group could steal plutonium for the purposes of fashioning an illicit nuclear weapon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes CBRNE
  • Contrôle des armements
CONT

Le coût de l'équipement et des installations de production (pour les armes biologiques) est un peu plus élevé que pour les toxiques chimiques, mais beaucoup moindre que pour les armes nucléaires illicites [...]

Spanish

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Record 18 2002-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Administration
  • Medical and Dental Services (Military)
DEF

A patient is seriously ill when his illness is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent danger to life.

OBS

seriously ill: term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration militaire
  • Service de santé et service dentaire (Militaire)
DEF

Un malade est considéré comme sérieux lorsque le degré de gravité de sa maladie est tel qu'il peut y avoir motif d'inquiétude, mais sans danger de mort imminente.

OBS

cas sérieux : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

OBS

gravement malade : terme utilisé au Centre médical de la Défense nationale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Administración militar
  • Servicios médico y dental (Militar)
DEF

Se considera que un paciente está gravemente enfermo cuando su enfermedad es tal que existen motivos de preocupación, pero no hay riesgo de muerte.

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Record 19 2000-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Environmental Management
CONT

Where there occurs or there is a likelihood of a release into the air of a substance in contravention of a regulation..., any person... shall, as soon as possible in the circumstances... take all reasonable measures consistent with the protection of the environment and public safety to prevent the release or, if it cannot be prevented, to remedy any dangerous condition or reduce or mitigate any danger to the environment or to human life or health that results from the release of the substance or may reasonably be expected to result if the substance is released...

OBS

Statute cited: Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

En cas de rejet effectif ou probable dans l'atmosphère d'une substance en violation d'un règlement [...] les intéressés sont tenus, dans les meilleurs délais possible [...] de prendre toutes les mesures compatibles avec la protection de l'environnement et la sécurité publique indiquées pour prévenir la situation dangereuse ou, à défaut, pour y remédier, ou pour supprimer ou atténuer le danger résultant du rejet ou pouvant résulter du rejet probable pour l'environnement ou pour la vie ou la santé humaines [...]

OBS

Loi citée : Loi canadienne sur la protection de l'environnement.

Spanish

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Record 20 1998-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
DEF

Where the piece work rate for completing a job, as established by a rate fixer, work study officer, etc is of a kind that makes it difficult for a worker to earn bonus earnings. In this situation there is a danger that the workers will not even try to earn bonus and will fall back on day work level of earnings, to the detriment of production output. This reaction from workers is known, particularly in the USA, as goldbricking.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)

Spanish

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Record 21 1994-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Systems
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

[a] journalist assigned to watch the British Royal family.

CONT

Prince Andrew is reported to have once told a friend he expected his one true love to hit him "like a bolt of lightning". But if Fleet Street royal-watchers are right, Sarah Ferguson has crept into his life on little cat feet.

CONT

The British press lectures the princess even as it leers at her. We are not amused intoned the Daily Mirror following the Ascot escapade. Said the tabloid Sun of her spouseless dates : Flighty Di is flirting with danger. Royalty watchers doubt there is anything more to her flirtations and partygoing than a youthful giddiness-and her unconcealed boredom with the arts, music and sports that attract Charles, who is 12 years older.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes politiques
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 22 1993-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

If the rate of charge varies according to the region, there may be the danger that, when the upper limit for pollution is reached, the charge will not be increased and that regions with low rates of charge will exert an attraction on entrepreneurs even when pollution limits are exceeded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Économie environnementale
DEF

Niveau maximal de pollution (exprimé en termes de concentration, de quantité ou de taux) au-delà duquel on trouve un état environnemental différent ou une situation différente en ce qui a trait aux lois, aux règlements, etc.

Spanish

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Record 23 1989-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
CONT

British Leyland(BL) is launching a new medium-sized car on April 25, 1984. It is hoped that this will help BL compete in the fleet-car market. British automakers are experiencing a recovery, but there is still the danger of becoming a screw-driver car industry. Graphs show percentage made in Britain and United Kingdom market share.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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