Sentences with phrase «describe as a threat»

The SRC had earlier called for the school's Independent Examinations Board, which conducted the exams and was responsible for the marking of the scripts, to be scrapped, describing it as a threat to legal education in Ghana, after only 91 of the over 500 students passed the exams.

The decision by the Mahama - led administration was met with massive public uproar, as many describing it as a threat to national security.

The IPOB leader was equally described as a threat to national security for inaugurating an illegal security outfit known as Biafra Security Service.

Confirming the incident, the Chairman of Anioma - Isu community Mr. Festus Nwachukwu, condemned the activities of Fulani herdsmen in Umuifi Anioma - Isu community, describing it as a threat to the agricultural revolution of the state government.

In the military context, climate change is often described as a Threat Multiplier.

Not exact matches

One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the «biggest existential threat» to humankind.

Describing Valve's new product, which is now entering beta testing, as a «latent threat,» Piers Harding - Rolls, analyst at IHS Screen Digest, says that for all its accomplishments Valve faces an uphill battle.

But while all that red ink set up the necessary conditions, it took the threat of a sovereign debt crisis and the rise of small - c conservatism to generate what John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, has described as a «stampede towards austerity.»

Unresolved, these problems will have clear implications for the Canadian economy, a fact Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged when he described the European debt crisis as «the most immediate and imminent threat to the global recovery.»

While the special counsel's investigation tries to determine whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, America's top nuclear commander described the nation as a paramount threat to the United States.

In comments to reporters, the Philippine president said he was weighing both martial law and the suspension of local elections in order to deal with what he has described as the pervasive threat from drugs.

Earlier comments from Trump had stoked talk of a global trade war as he described them as easy to win and issued a threat to German carmakers.

Mr. Trump has said the threat of such tariffs would persuade China, for example, to modify the economic policies that he describes as providing unfair advantages to Chinese companies.

In a media release Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff's office described the incident as a bomb threat.

Malmström described the Trump administration's plan to impose tariffs of 25 % on foreign steel and 10 % on imported aluminum as «deeply unjust» and a threat to European workers.

Analyst Jeremiah Owyang of San Mateo's Altimeter Group described the plan as Facebook's «crusade of colonization» of the Internet that could make the firm the Web's main social in - box - and a bigger threat to Google.

White House officials on Wednesday describe North Korea as an «urgent» threat to national security and a «top foreign policy priority.»

Last week, Bank of America's (BOA) released their SEC annual report that also contained a mention of cryptocurrencies as a threat to their business, with the risk of competition described in very similar terms: «the widespread adoption of new technologies, including internet services, cryptocurrencies and payment systems, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our existing products and services.»

He described porn as «the most pernicious threat facing children today».

Prime Minister David Cameron described ISIS as an «existential threat,» saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, `... what's happening here is the perversion of a great religion, and the creation of this poisonous death cult that is seducing too many young minds in Europe, in America, in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Identifying with Radha's pounding breasts as she steals out at night to meet Krishna, other poets graphically describe her fear while merely hinting at the suppressed thrill of her sortie, the arousal sharpened by the threat of discovery.

Luther experienced what he described as attacks of utter despair, as the frightful threat of a complete meaninglessness, when belief in his work and message disappeared and no meaning remained.

One way of describing Dr. Altizer's effort is to say that he recognizes that Gnosticism, as flight from reality into a private religious world (or ideological world), is the great temptation or even treason of today, and that to combat this threat he has boldly adopted a typically Gnostic pattern of thought as the vehicle for expressing total commitment in and for the world.

At a service in his home state of Barinas billed by state television as giving thanks for his health, Chavez described cancer as «a true threat that marks the end of the path for many people.

In particular, it is a response to the threat against the family represented by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply demands by a small minority of activists for the legalisation of what they insist on describing as homosexual «marriage».

This is such an interesting passage because, in responding specifically to the threat of Gnosticism, John's rebuttal carries both confessional / belief elements and love / action elements — and both are described as vital to Christian faith.

Habitat loss has now been identified as the main threat to 85 - 90 % of all species described by the IUCN as «threatened» or «endangered» and is the most commonly recorded reason for species extinction over the last 20 years.

6» 2» 220 lbs and was described as a deep threat in his draft profiles / pre-draft coverage.

Despite not offering much in terms of a goal threat, he is described as a technically gifted midfielder with an excellent range of passing — perfectly suited to solve United's renowned midfield crisis.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the Founder of the International Central gospel Church (ICCG), Mensah Otabil, as a threat to national security and a secret supporter of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Indeed, the TUC has described the current threat to pensions as the first serious attempt to cut wages and conditions since World War 2.

However Hopeson Adorye rubbished Allotey's threat describing it as empty and insisted that Allotey Jacobs was momentarily arrested and questioned over a case of money laundering Sunday while boarding a flight to the UK.

Warren, Rochester's first female and second African - American Mayor, continued to reference threats she's received online and through social media but for the first time described them as racial and physical in nature.

So I can describe Russia as a «crypto - fascist» state (which it is) or declare that climate change is indeed a greater threat to the future of humanity than international terrorism (which it is) without getting my broadcasting head chopped off.

It's being described as a «grave threat» and now - a new centre in the North West is teaming up with the US to fight against antibiotic resistance, which claims 25,000 lives a year in Europe.

In multiple sources, this missile test has been described as a huge «unprecedented, serious and grave threat» to Japan.

Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you speak a foreign language in the street or simply happen to look foreign.

Mr Brown praised the public's response to the terror threats, which had previously been described as heroic by shadow home secretary David Davis.

A human rights advocacy group, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, on Sunday described as unjustified the threat of legal action against it by a former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi.

The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has described killings by Fulani herdsmen as a threat to security in the country.

Also, a former member of the House of Representatives, Bamidele Faparusi, described Fayose's claim as a threat to national security.

SERAP, which described Fayemi's threat of lawsuit as an unhelpful distraction, maintained that it would not back down on its campaign for the abolition of state laws that allow ex-governor to earn life pensions.

«Continued unemployment and the growing gap between the rich and the poor are the greatest threats to our prosperity,» said Quinn, who is widely expected to run for mayor, in a speech in Midtown at an Association for Better New York event, where she unveiled what she described as «concrete and immediate steps we can take to create jobs today and strengthen our economy for years to come.»

Mason, 85, described the Obama administration's Iran deal as «the greatest threat Israel has faced since it was born.»

Following what has been described as the lukewarm attitude displayed by officers and soldiers of the Nigerian army during current internal security challenges unfolding in the country like the violent Biafra protests in the South and other political threats -LSB-...]

Wakawa described cannabis cultivation as a major threat to food security, peace and development in the state, and appealed for the urgent intervention of leaders at all levels.

Whether you think the Labour leader's last - minute gauntlet yesterday at «tea - time» - as many commentators have so quaintly described Miliband's 11th hour (ie 5.15 pm) threat to vote against the government's initial motion to intervene in Syria - was politicking or boldness in the national interest, it may not necessarily be the reason behind the suddenly watered - down vote.

He described the allegation as «unfortunate» and maintained that the NPP is just «envious» of his activeness in Ghana politics over the years — «I am a threat to them and they [NPP] have confirmed that.»

Climate change - the issue David Cameron described a year ago as «one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces» and on which all three leaders signed an important pledge as recently as February — has been studiously avoided in this campaign.

North Korea has described United States President Donald Trump's threat to totally destroy the country as an «impotent» threat.