harm's way

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Prof Ramesh says that if we are able to see what happens on the Sun's corona and spot a solar storm or a coronal mass ejection in real time, record its temperature at origin and watch its trajectory, it can work as a forewarning to switch off power grids and satellites and move them out of harm's way.

From BBC

"There's a lot of positives, but now it's just really building that resilience within the soft tissue and making sure that we're not putting him in harm's way in terms of accelerating it too much," he said.

From Barron's

There were price-gouging landlords and GoFundMe grifters; L.A.’s mayor and her untested fire chief; an alleged arsonist’s blaze abandoned to rekindle; an Edison power line allowed to spark; and an emergency management system that left hundreds in harm’s way and panicked millions more with false alarms.

From Los Angeles Times

“Everybody makes a big deal about these numbers, but what I do think he’s doing a great job of is he’s not leaving the ball in harm’s way, either,” McVay said.

From Los Angeles Times

"Current widespread exposures, at levels comparable to those experienced in this sample, continue to place farm workers, pregnant women, and unborn children in harm's way. It is vitally important that we continue to monitor the levels of exposure in potentially vulnerable populations, especially in pregnant women in agricultural communities, as their infants continue to be at risk," said Virginia Rauh, ScD, senior author on the study and the Jane and Alan Batkin Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia Mailman School.

From Science Daily