Sentences with phrase «as threats to their way of life»

Sometimes we go so far as to kill those whom we view as threats to our selfish freedom, even going so far as to make public calls from the pulpits in our country to call for the obliteration and destruction of whole groups of people in other parts of the world because we view them as a threat to our way of life.

Sure, right - wing talk radio (and Lou Dobbs) helped to stir things up, but millions of Americans were already genuinely concerned about what they saw as threats to their way of life.

Seeing this as a threat to his way of life, Mob boss Bobby Biaggio Bigotta, better known as Biggie Boom Boom, knows that he must stop Paulie and his friends by all means necessary.

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Most publishers see it as nothing less than an existential threat to their way of life, and they view users who do it as traitors and thieves.

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

Any way you cut it, one of the biggest threats to life as a teen in the U.S. today is being shot.

Travel can help us appreciate different ways of living and other cultures and not automatically view them as threats or a reason to divide.

The now «Un «American news media of this country poses a serious threat to our way of life as whole.

I have a similar way of framing the great question of the West: Will we live as if the authority of the sacred posed the greatest threat to human freedom — or as if God's Word provided the soundest, most trustworthy basis for freedom?

«I try to walk the tightrope between being truthful and honest about the threat to the public but, on the other hand, to say we are doing everything possible to combat it and to try to keep our lifestyle as near as possible to the British way of life,» Mr Reid said.

The film starts out with a Yakuza boss revealed to be a vampire, and soon the entire town he rules over gets converted into vampires as they try to remove threats to their way of life.

In many ways the film is, and should be, almost anti-dramatic — the occasional riot or threat scene aside, most of the action takes place in meeting rooms, living rooms or small TV studios as Bernal pitches his ideas to the willfully uncomprehending «suits.»

The voice of Jeanine Matthews echoes over the city as she claims that «Every faction plays a crucial role in maintaining social order,» and warns that Divergents pose a dangerous threat to their way of life.

Primal Pursuit features fast and frantic races as up to 12 animals race for their lives through deadly courses full of unpredictable threats — such as gigantic rolling boulders that squash anyone careless enough to get in their way!

These wealth accumulating and power - driven leaders and their not negotiable view of the right way for all human beings to live, I am supposing, will shortly stand out as an ominously looming threat to humanity.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

There has been moderate growth in the percentage of Americans viewing global warming as «a serious threat» to themselves or their way of life during their lifetimes, from 25 % in 1997 to 40 % this year.

If there is no threat of catastrophe — and as I said, prior to the hockey stick nobody had the slightest bit of luck convincing anyone that the sky was falling because global climate today is geologically unremarkable in every single way except that we happen to be living in it instead of analyzing it in a geological record — then there is little incentive to fund the enormous amount of work being done on climate science.

Yet the emergence of global warming as an issue in the 1980s with its potential for large - scale social change needed to ameliorate its threat was seen as more threatening to conservatives in regard to industry, prosperity, life - style, and the entire American - way of life, than were traditional pollution problems.

I agree that as a consequence of industrialisation and population that mankind should not just take it for granted that everything will be ok and we should not worry ourselves over the impact we have on our planet, but that does not translate into our very existence and way of life as being a threat to the planet.

On one side stood people alarmed by what they saw as an imminent, even disastrous, threat to their own way of life and perhaps all creatures on the planet.

And if it happens at all, it's going to happen against the background of an international finance - and technology - sharing regime that will at every point be relentlessly attacked by the right and its allies in the fossil cartel as — what else — a threat to the American way of life.

Stereotypes of Muslims as a threat to Canadian security and Canadian values and ways of life have been particularly pronounced, as have various forms of racial profiling.

And Professor of Public Health at Bond University, Chris Del Mar, wrote a fascinating long read for Inside Story on antibiotic resistance — and how it is a serious threat to our way of life, describing it as a «looming catastrophe».