Sentences with phrase «as threats against»

Children with reactive attachment disorder may also use such situations as threats against parents at later times.

Pielke says it's «ridiculous» to characterize the emails as threats against Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, and Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Eventually, Wigand agrees to do an interview with Mike Wallace (played by Christopher Plummer, Twelve Monkeys, Broadway's Barrymore) even as threats against the safety of him and his family increase..

He became the youngest player to ever make a Masters 1000 semifinal, announcing himself as a threat against players of all levels.

In 2010 they were originally commissioned to create Duke Duken 3D Reloaded — however, this project was cancelled due to the game looking better than Duke Nukem Forever and was seen as a threat against Forevers sales (according to Wiki).

As for the moral high ground, however, it's absolutely ridiculous that they've been withholding the MW2 royalties as a threat against leaving the company.

While many central banks including the Bank of Finland, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of Korea are taking the right approach in regulating trading activities and businesses around bitcoin efficiently with practical policies, several central banks in regions such as China and Russia are still against bitcoin because it remains as a threat against the global banking industry and existing financial networks.

Not exact matches

«We're not as vigilant against threat.»

Other top government officials, like foreign minister Nikos Kotzias, have worked to water down the threat of further sanctions against Russia as well.

But while manned aircraft can usually fight back against signal jamming, and pilots in a cockpit can always use their own judgment if communications or navigation is lost, jamming could pose a serious threat to the US Navy's drones, as there's no one in the cockpit, according to Lamrani.

Trump's threat to hit North Korea came as that nation — reacting to new United Nations sanctions against its nuclear program — warned the U.S. would «pay dearly» and said it was examining plans to fire a missile toward an American military base on Guam.

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

While this strike could conceivably remove the threat to the US from North Korean ICBMs, Pyongyang may very well see the attack as a larger - scale decapitation attack against the Kim regime.

Bt as a rule using a work computer for personal reasons or doing work on a personal computer (or tablet or smartphone) can significantly change the threat level that an employer has to protect itself against.

«There's obviously the threat [of sanctions] against others, but... it's surprising, to me at least, how few people have broken with Maduro,» he said during the AS / COA event.

More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional theater - only cinematic runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»

She joined Promontory from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as the deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications and led responses to cybersecurity threats against corporations, civilians, and the government.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

Mr. Cohen is a longtime lawyer and fixer who, in a decade at Mr. Trump's side, has served as a reliable attack dog against real or perceived threats to him.

Small business employers also provide access to larger networks such as supply chains, therefore protecting this information against increasing cyber threats is critical.

A Republican running against an Ohio lawmaker with whom she exchanged sexual text messages has followed through on her threat to release more texts, even as the legislator pursues an extortion claim against her.

Increased tension between Tehran and Riyadh has fueled speculation that shared interests may push Saudi Arabia and Israel to work together against what they regard as a common Iranian threat.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order weakening an IRS rule known as the Johnson Amendment, declaring that a «financial threat against the faith community is over.»

Emil Michael, Uber's business head who got into trouble several years ago after making idiotic threats against a female reporter, is very close to him, as well as Uber founder and non-executive board chairman Garrett Camp and longtime Uber exec Ryan Graves.

At present, banks are visibly keen to keep pace with blockchain's latest developments in a bid to improve their overall efficiency and minimise costs, as well as to push back against the growing threat from FinTech firms eager to capitalise on the technology.

However, he did suggest there would be some «tweaking» of the deal as it relates to Canada-U.S. trade, and he did not address the threat of a border adjustment levy or Buy America policies that can discriminate against Canadian exporters.

Even as Mr. Trump tripled down on his threats against Beijing, he also offered something of an olive branch — a back - and - forth pattern that he has repeated over the past weeks.

But as most analysts have noted, the Presidents threats and claims against Amazon have no real teeth.

Earlier this week, he said exactly what anonymous Ministry of Defense sources said a few weeks ago, when they asserted that Iron Dome was under threat of a procurement freeze as part of their eternal war against the Ministry of Finance officials over the defense budget.

The retail sector is under increased pressure from rising e-commerce threat which has caused many large brick and mortar stores to down shutters.However, Realty Income is quite insulated from this risk as 97 % of its total portfolio is protected against retail e-commerce threats and economic downturns.

Rape culture is when a woman who campaigned for women to be included on banknotes got threatened with rape for her troubles, and when she tried to do something about it, got accused of using the (violent, graphic, horrific) threats against her as a way to get famous.

Like John Rawls, she finally posits her universe as normative, refusing to recognize that this is a de facto establishment of religion imposed against the threat of establishing religion.

The author mentions Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin in a positive light regarding Islam, but conveniently leaves out that these and many other Founding Fathers were against Islam (commonly referred to as Mahometism back then) as a threat to American society and safety.

Some suffer in silence, but their doubts are sometimes drowned out by those ruling members who take it as their right to defend the faith against all supposed threats.

His strategy is to lie about what he's going to do («I support Israel»), do the opposite (send massive funding ovderseas to the Muslim Brotherhood for use against Israel, and positon Israel as the «threat») and then lie abouit what he did («relations with Israel have never been closer»).

It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov's «Legend of the Grand Inquisitor» as a prescient parable glorifying human freedom and defending it against the kind of totalitarian threats it would face in the twentieth century.

Peoplehood for nineteenth - and twentieth - century Jews became a bendlach — spiritually protecting Jews against threats from the outside while acting as the thin thread that could tie together the myriad and disparate Jewish groups and movements.

In some neighborhoods, one in three young black males is working as a «snitch,» forced to testify against friends and family under the threat of prosecution.

Consider as well the so - called «sagebrush rebellions» against federal control of vast areas of the western U.S — a revolt that gave birth to many threats and acts of violence directed at Park Service personnel.

A number of Christians are asking, «How would America and Christianity survive against such threats as Islam and ISIS?»

Your angry words and threats are as ignorant and misdirected as those who issue similar threats against the U.S. and Christians.

As to the people of the world, Roach did not mention the international - law argument against aggression or anticipate the Security Council's declaration that Iraq was guilty of aggression and was a threat to international peace and security.

As we grapple with a new war fought against a Muslim threat and new efforts, to control and transform a conquered people, history can provide insights not only into where we have been, but into where we may be going.

The signers emphasize that they have no illusions about the brutal threat posed by the enemy, as well as the moral temptations and threats inherent in the necessary effort to protect ourselves against that enemy.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

We Christians ought to be the first to make the cause of the freedom of others our own and to be as sensitive to a threat against another's freedom as to one against our own.

The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them.

It regards changes in the present world order as communist - inspired threats against U.S. national security interests.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.

If we believe in a violent God then we can easily rationalize away violence against others who we see as threats.