Sentences with phrase «as an arms race»

Mining has been the subject of significant media coverage, as an arms race has grown around hardware designed to perform highly specialized computations to mine bitcoins.

But we serve neither ourselves nor our children when we think of either anxiety or high stakes testing as an arms race to be won, rather than an affliction to be avoided.

Even novel attacks on cancer can end up as an arms race.

Not exact matches

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One of the biggest names in high - frequency trading wants to erect a communications tower in rural Kent as high as The Shard as it steps up the millisecond arms race against rivals.

«I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.

This has sparked an expensive arms race between technology giants as they try to outbid each other to stockpile on valuable patent portfolios up for grabs.

This mounting competition may certainly be considered the «arms race» that Keating was referring to, as companies — and even countries — jostle for position over a rapidly expanding market.

Early bitcoin entrepreneur Alex Waters looks back at what was lost as the network's mining «arms race» escalated.

And in what could emerge as a self - driving - car arms race, the players are investing in, or partnering with, or buying outright the specialty companies most focused on the requisite hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities.

As a final point, it was not the US's military might that brought down the USSR — it was the USSR's finances, yes, admittedly forced by Reagan's arms race.

And yet the arms race continues in terms of its quantitative aspects as well as qualitative dimensions.

For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.

For example, in «game theory,» an aptly named part of high academic economics, it has been discovered that games (such as the nuclear arms race or participation in an economy) can not be played with prudence - only rules.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

Girard's primary example of such hypocrisy was the mythological (according to his elaboration of myth as the perpetrator's justifications for violence) notion of Mutual Assured Destruction of the Cold War arms race that was contemporary with the writing of his book in the late 1970s.

In a world where other nations constructed the machinery of war in an attempt to achieve their own security, it was Israel's trust in Yahweh as warrior that freed the community of faith from taking part in arms races and saber - rattling.

The nuclear arms race discloses the lethal power of domination as death.

As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beingAs an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beingas fellow human beings.

It may also help us to keep in view the risks of an unlimited nuclear arms race as compared with the risks involved in disarmament.

Some involve substances introduced into the body, such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, caffeine, salt and sugar — substances that can be mood - altering — but others involve a process: extreme preoccupation with relationships, money, sex, religion, gambling, romance, violence, the arms race, television and so on.

And this fallacious idea of the need to «balance» each other in destructive power has come to be regarded as self - evident to the people of America — because of what President Dwight Eisenhower in his last message to the American people called the «military - industrial complex» and what Alva Myrdal in her book The Game of Disarmament calls the «arms race within the arms race.

Football is not quite there yet, but when entering in to an arms race and spending more money than your rivals is viewed as the ONLY measure of «real ambition» and the only way to improve a team then football will eventually eat itself.

So the arms race has momentarily slowed down this year, as the sport's governing bodies compete for status and prestige over whose tournament doles out the most cash.

As for Chelsea does Abramovic want another arms race after he already dumped 1 billion into Chelsea.

This didn't turn into an arms race, as the offseason did.

Tevez's move to Shanghai Shenhua from Boca Juniors was one of the biggest in the arms race that was the Chinese transfer window, which has since quietened down since the CFA's reforms, but his time in Shanghai has been nothing short of an unmitigated disaster and it will come as a surprise to absolutely no one when his contract is torn up and he returns to Argentina.

As Vladislav Zubok shows, Brezhnev, who epitomised a highly traditional view of security, based on military power and territorial defence, had also become convinced of the need to limit the cost of the arms race.

«The African Topmost Monarch told the UNFPA Boss during the visit that he had visited him as one of his important subjects being a descendant of Oduduwa who was making the race, Nigeria and Africa proud as the head of such a very important arm of the United Nation.

He has focused his work, including two recent amendments — one to recruit, and the other to memorialize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members who have served honorably and with distinction in the Armed Forces — as well as to eliminate all forms of discrimination based on color, race, religion, gender, sex, creed, disability, sexual orientation or national origin.»

So far, the fundraising has primarily benefited conservative organizations such as the Club for Growth, the Congressional Leadership Fund and American Crossroads, the group connected to George W. Bush's former White House adviser Karl Rove, which plans to spend up to $ 100 million on House and Senate races through its super PAC and nonprofit arms.

Registered under section 527 of the tax code, it was being revamped by Gillespie, who envisioned it as an aggressive campaign arm for state races that would extend the coalition's reach down ballots.

«Garter snakes and newts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race where as the newts become more toxic, the snakes become more resistant,» said McGlothlin, who is also affiliated with the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech.

Krasnow and Mehr believe the tug of war between an infant seeking as much attention as possible and the caregiver dividing attention among other offspring and tasks crucial for survival may have set the stage for an evolutionary arms race.

This so - called evolutionary arms race (also known as the Red Queen hypothesis) can be tracked over the eons as each species adapts new strategies to outwit their predators — and / or their own prey — making the dynamic a two - way street.

Clayton suggests that a cognitive arms race among their own kind drove corvids to evolve, as the spy - versus - spy game of caching, stealing, hiding, and deceiving escalated the need for an ever - sharper mind.

Basically this is what's known as an evolutionary arms race.

As Kennedy later explained his thinking: «In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race.

And that, researchers report July 7 in Science, may be when wheat started to lose an arms race with blast fungus (Pyricularia oryzae, also known as...

The behaviors have led to what researchers term an evolutionary arms race, with the birds evolving various strategies to outwit their rivals, such as hiding nuts in the shade or behind barriers, or moving their cache to new locations.

In the arms race of life, a number of animals use venom as a weapon to paralyze prey and jump - start digestion.

«The birds counter-evolved against those defenses as evolution favored deeper - beaked crossbills, resulting in a coevolutionary arms race that has driven evolutionary divergence of this unique bird population.»

The majority of the process is believed to have taken only a few million years, as the first predator to gain true imaging would have touched off an «arms race».

But now, Bradley claims, one ape is fighting back: gorillas seem to have lost the ability to taste brazzein, which Bradley thinks has evolved as part of an arms race against the plant.

These opposing interests ought to create conflict between the sexes, which should appear as an escalating arms race: adaptations in one sex followed by counteradaptations in the other.

It deterred the enemy as it sealed its fate by engendering a naval arms race

At the same time, the opposite tack is being taken by services such as Captcha King, mentioned earlier in the Craigslist - spammer arms race, that advertise a series of aristocracy - themed payment plans (Royal, Imperial, and Emperor) for CAPTCHA solutions sold in batches of thousands.Their method, which integrates with spamming software like automated Craig - slist posting engines, Jiffy Gmail Creator, and MySpace bots, retrieves the CAPTCHA images «for manual entry.»

As a result, bitcoin miners are engaged in an arms race.

«As we understand the nature of the interaction between viruses and host immunity, we will be better placed to intervene in this delicately balanced arms race in order to develop novel treatments and interventions,» Katzourakis noted.

«We really need to think about the interactions of retroviruses and host immunity as the product of an ancient arms race stretching back to the early origins of vertebrates,» Katzaourakis said.