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How to use the word strokes in a Sentence?

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When temperatures reach 32 Celsius or 89.5 Fahrenheit -- all heavy military workouts, drills and combat simulations stop, the Israeli military learned The Israeli military the hard way -- losing soldiers to heat strokes in training.

Tom Gil

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just like any chronic disease of aging -- high cholesterol, heart attacks, strokes -- they all start silently decades before they show up. Alzheimer's disease is no different, targeting them early on is the best recipe for optimal brain health as we age.

Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He turned to me and said,' Doctor, this is the 21st century. You guys have treatments for cancer, for strokes, for heart attacks, but not such a simple thing as hiccups ?'.

Ali Seifi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I would make the decision to do it, because we can't run out beds, we can not run out of staff and hospital beds. The results are disastrous there because then we start losing people to heart attacks, strokes and car wrecks.

Andy Beshear

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All lines and strokes are components of dots. Even the net is a collection of dots interconnecting people from different walks of life.

Clifford Villanueva Villalon

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3 years ago

We were very surprised to see that many people of all ages, and even those with severe strokes, were not presenting to the hospital for evaluation and treatment. Even in states with few Covid cases, patients were hesitant to be seen in ERs, not only are patients afraid to go in but some physicians have been hesitant to send patients to the ER. Even paramedics may be concerned.

Greg Albers

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As an archaeologist, I was a bit skeptical about this way of explaining art through poetry, but Kevin Spacey, as a great actor, performed a masterful reading, Kevin Spacey gave the word to the statue. Like The Boxer, Kevin Spacey also suffered strokes that remain in the body and soul.

Marcello Barbanera

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Reducing salt is the most cost-effective measure to reduce the number of people dying or suffering from entirely unnecessary strokes and heart disease, given the vast amounts of strokes and heart disease that could be avoided and huge savings to the NHS, it is incomprehensible that Public Health England are not doing more to reduce the amount of salt in our food.

Graham MacGregor

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The first is that it is a genetically determined marker of cardiovascular risk that cannot be significantly modified with lifestyle changes, the second is that we do not have easily accessible or tolerable therapies to lower Lp(a) levels. The third reason is that medications that lower Lp(a) levels also lower LDL levels, so it has proven difficult to attribute clinically important effects — like a reduction in heart disease and strokes — to Lp(a) lowering alone.

Luke Laffin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If you put more emphasis on things that relate to organic produce or new farmers or renewable energy on farms, then there might be more public support for a bill that otherwise, in broad strokes, the general public things of as having big subsidies for big farms.

Ferd Hoefner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Several trials clearly demonstrated that lower sodium intake down to 1,500 milligrams decreases blood pressure more than lowering sodium to 2,500 to 3,000 milligrams, this is especially important in people who have higher risk of heart attacks and strokes, those who are over 60 years old and those with hypertension.

Frank Sacks

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Since heart attacks and strokes are by far our leading cause of death and disability, I'm not sure there are much more important things you'd want to talk to your primary care doctor about.

Don Lloyd-Jones

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I am disgusted and angered that Coastal Carolina University has released an incomplete investigation to the media that paints the women of the Cheerleading Team as prostitutes with the broadest of strokes, this goes to the heart of what is wrong with the Coastal Carolina University and its inadequate treatment of women, not only in sports but on campus.

Amy Lawrence

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We cloak it in metaphor -- instead of painting a very literal picture of the person sick in bed we have broader brush strokes and try to create some kind of fantastical environment that mimics that particular situation and within that fantastical environment you can change the circumstance and make them something more triumphant. if you are good friends someone, and you are with one another and have a very strong relationship I think it’s a wonderful and healthy thing to do to be supportive and be physically present and again turning all these emotions into something productive. Turning this darkness into something bright and positive or at least attempting to.

Troy Sanders

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Research shows that in addition to severe chest infections, flu may also lead to heart attacks and strokes, most severe influenza complications occur in the elderly and people who suffer from long-term conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and asthma.

Eszter Vamos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This kind of narrowing can indicate more widespread arterial disease, which we know can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and death.

Christopher Clark

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If we sent unencrypted keyboard strokes as if we were a mouse it started typing on the computer, typing at a 1000 words per minute.

Chris Rouland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Serious fall injuries such as hip fractures and head injuries are comparable to strokes in clinical importance for older adults, therefore, it is important to identify ways to prevent series fall injuries, particularly as the population is rapidly aging.

Mary Tinetti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If text message-based support improves medical adherence, it has the potential to prevent major clinical events such as heart attacks, strokes and premature death.

Clara Chow

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The vessels themselves may be of interest, but they certainly are not classified, in terms of the electronics the sailors could easily disable the electronic and classified information with a few key strokes.

Former Lt. Col Rick Francona

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the 35- to 40-hour group, there were fewer than five strokes per 1,000 employees per decade.

Mika Kivimaki

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Right now, we still just have pretty broad strokes but on a similar page, ... The process will sort itself out very quickly ... I'm confident of that.

James Blake

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But the main problem is the public health aspect – even if the individual risk is not alarming, the high number of people working long hours means that in the whole population a huge number of strokes will occur.

Urban Janlert of Umea University

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Even if an increased risk of 30 percent is rather low for an individual, people should think of it, but the main problem is the public health aspect – even if the individual risk is not alarming, the high number of people working long hours means that in the whole population a huge number of strokes will occur.

Urban Janlert of Umea University

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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