Sentences with phrase «biggest threats facing»

Many people think of fire and theft as the two biggest threats facing us as renters and thus the two biggest reasons to go out and get a policy.

The US election also featured highly in compliance professionals» responses, with a quarter (27 %) seeing it as one of the biggest threats facing their business in the year ahead, and a far greater number are concerned about the implications a Trump victory might have on the profession.

Global water crises — from drought in the world's most productive farmlands to the hundreds of millions of peoples without access to safe drinking water — are among the biggest threats facing the planet over the next decade.

«I want to empower [readers] with the tools they need to fix this problem which is one of the single biggest threats facing us not just personally in our health, but globally as an economy.»

Despite a growing business climate of unprecedented perks and engagement studies, an alarming 84 % of senior leaders say disengaged employees are one of the three biggest threats facing their business.

The house - price bubble, combined with record levels of household debt, represent the biggest threat facing the Canadian economy; the sooner real - estate markets mellow and Canadians lower their debt burdens, the better.

But the biggest threat they face, Rosenblatt says, is dealing with the tech behemoths that pose a threat to their budding businesses.

But New Yorkers do not want to see him go on the attack against Hillary when Democrats should be focused on the big threat we face from Donald Trump.»

Also students will research the effects of global warming and climate change and evaluate whether this is the biggest threat we face as humans Students will research destruction of natural resources — with an example of deforestation — and evaluate whether humans have the right to do what they want to the planet Students will then summarise our learning from this lesson and will answer some questions to demonstrate learning from this lesson

In terms of the biggest threat facing the education sector, survey respondents felt that student and staff welfare was the most important factor to protect, emphasising the importance of investing in high quality security solutions.

Sixty - seven per cent of respondents also felt that awareness of safety and security amongst education professionals had remained the same in the previous year, with student and staff welfare seen to be the biggest threat facing the sector.

The biggest threats we face are from external factors which are largely out of our control; fishing nets, adverse weather and larger boats.

The remaining 265 respondents, or 51.5 percent, believe global warming is a bigger threat facing this country.

Thought experiment — my impression is that the Gates Foundation has a reputation for very cost - effective, powerful philanthropy — what could they do, if they decided to focus on tackling the biggest threat we face?

To me, climate change is the biggest threat facing our planet today, connecting issues of national security, human health, economic development, and environmental justice.

The biggest threat facing humanity is worth spending money on.

We are a diverse group of women and men who are determined to raise awareness of the biggest threat facing humanity today — that of Climate Change.

Is the risk of climatic change / warming / chaos / disruption really the biggest threat we face?

JEMS Progressive Community Organization ($ 45,000): To organize trainings and programs that encourage community members to take action against climate change, the biggest threat facing their island nation, culminating in a national week of climate action.

Arguably climate change is the biggest threat we face today.

The 0.5 % of deaths attributed to climate change amounted to around 150,000, while the causes of the remaining 42,157,155 deaths went largely undiscussed, principally because conventional wisdom informs that «climate change is the biggest threat facing mankind» and «climate change is worse for the poor».

Climate change is one of the biggest threats we face today.

Simmons is currently working on a program that encourages youth and community members to take action against climate change; the biggest threat facing their island nation.

As for the rest, well, the dystopian evidence seems overwhelming indeed, to the point where it might be no stretch at all to say the biggest threat facing America is perhaps not global warming, not perpetual warmongering, not garbage food or low - level radiation or way too much Lindsay Lohan, but a populace far too ignorant to know how to properly manage any of it, much less change it all for the better.

The biggest threat faced by property owners in Beaufort is loss or damage caused by hurricanes and tropical storms.

Not exact matches

Joe Flacco and Philip Rivers are probably the biggest passing threats the Steelers face until Week 12 against the Seahawks.

But according to a new book from LA's most famous seismologist, Lucy Jones, the state faces an even bigger threat: a megaflood that would pummel inland...

While it seems plausible that GOOGL could face more fines in the future, it's hard to imagine regulators posing such a big threat to the company.

«The spreading scourge [click fraud] poses the single biggest threat to the Internet's advertising gold mine and is the most nettlesome question facing Google and Yahoo, whose digital empires depend on all that gold.»

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

I believe the Religious Right and their puppets the Republicans, are the biggest threat to liberty, that this country has ever faced.

The 2014 GE Capital Australian Mid-Market Report released last week revealed rising commodity and labor costs, pressure on margins and the increasing threat from private labels were some of the biggest challenges facing the industry.

The current Premier League champions have now faced both Arsenal and Chelsea in the league and, perhaps surprisingly, the Man City captain has expressed his belief that the Gunners could prove a bigger threat to them retaining the title than the blue boys from Stamford Bridge.

As part as a new feature, we'll be asking opponents fans to identify their three biggest threats ahead of facing the Gunners.

New York's other ex-mayor, Mike Bloomberg, believes Americans are facing an «epidemic of dishonesty» in the nation's capital that's a bigger threat to democracy than terrorism or Communism.

First and foremost: They contribute heavily to Climate Change, the biggest threat that our and other species have ever faced.

«David Cameron mentioned the words «security» and «safe» 14 times in his speech, yet climate change, one of the biggest threats humanity is facing, got just one timid nod.

He added: «Climate change is the biggest threat our planet faces.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the federal government is the «biggest threat» facing New Yorkers.

Asked why Ukip had changed from its 2013 stance, when Mr Nuttall said the party would not pursue a blanket ban against face - covering veils, Mr Nuttall said: «There's obviously the bigger security threat that we face now.

Later, Powell said he disagreed with Gallagher on the biggest national security threat facing the nation.

Rupert and James Murdoch capitulated to Parliament last night and agreed to appear before MPs investigating phone hacking after facing the bizarre threat of imprisonment in a cell halfway up Big Ben.

Discover: Influenza is the biggest pandemic threat we face.

Now, many in the west face the opposite problem: one of the biggest threats to health is overeating.

The government said run - off from farms, crown - of - thorns starfish and climate change remain the biggest threats to the reef, but acknowledged that shipping and dredging occur in reef areas already facing pressure from other impacts.

It seems we need a term for big, obvious threats that are sure to emerge — think asteroid impacts — but which few want to face.

The analysis identifies habitat loss and hunting as the biggest reasons behind the decline of land mammals; marine species face additional threats, including pollution and accidental death in fishing nets.

According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest public health threats we face today; there were about 480,000 new cases of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis in 2013.

The global fate of pollinators rests firmly in the hands of Big Ag according to research published in the journal PeerJ, which identified the most serious future threats and opportunities facing pollinating species.

Excess body fat is undoubtedly one of the biggest health threats facing both us and our children's lives.