Sentences with phrase «even as the threat»

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..

Not exact matches

Even as geopolitical threats linger and the October crashes of 1929 and 1987 stir up uncomfortable memories, Cramer asked investors to remember September's track record.

«As hackers devise more advanced and less recognizable threats, organizations that continue to settle for cybersecurity strategies that rely on a «feeling» of security are taking even greater risks in the coming year.»

Still, even a symbolic threat from a someone as deep - pocketed and well connected as Steyer might have far and wide echoes.)

Interesting they reject it «as a policy matter,» but aren't willing to reject military force in the United States as a legal matter, even in instances where law enforcement would better incapacitate the threat.

This would be a threat to established politicians in the PP and PSOE, and even Catalan nationalist parties, as unsavoury revelations become known.

Since the raid, the president and his advisers have been singularly focused on the risk of a potential federal prosecution of Cohen, which they view as a much bigger existential threat to the presidency than former FBI Director James Comey, whose book «A Higher Loyalty» has dominated headlines and even Trump's Twitter feed even before its Tuesday release.

Even the threat of online merchants hasn't impacted off - price chains as greatly because they have built out a niche for consumers that are looking to shop and find a good deal in - store today, versus having to order online and wait for a delivery.

The documents also reveal that Afghan and Canadian officials tracked the suspect and that he was arrested and released a second time, even though intelligence officers had flagged him as a possible threat.

So even just as a negotiation tactic, threats on steel imports are risky and quite likely to alienate friends of the US.

At one point, he even suggested that authorities should be able to «Take the guns first, follow due process second,» when disarming people considered to be a threat, such as those with mental health issues.

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.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

Even as the energy companies look to savor the recent recovery in oil prices after a protracted slump, the U.S. presidential election is seen as posing the next big threat.

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

The Japanese Yen and gold are both trading lower after yesterday's safe haven rally, as the imminent threat of the widening of the Syrian conflict eased, but we wouldn't rule out another quick change in sentiment, even as early as today, and the precious metal remains one of our favorite bets in the current environment.

In view of that, we were able to take stock of our strengths, our weakness, our opportunities and also the threats that we are likely going to be exposed to in Houston — Texas and even in the United States of America as a whole.

They want their threats to be treated as credible even if they aren't.

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.

The threat of a trade war loomed over Jerome H. Powell's inaugural speech as Federal Reserve chairman on Friday in Chicago, even as he tried to focus attention on the fundamental strength of the American economy.

With is Security Study published in 2012, Alliance Research chronicled what firms were seeing as threats to it private clients, as we cited acute threats such as cyber security and travel, to unknown threats such as identity theft, to chronic threats such as health, travel, and reputation management and even sustainability.

«After decades of doubting China's innovation potential, the United States now fears the rapid pace of China's technological catchup, and sees Chinese technology as a major (perhaps even existential) threat to US economic competitiveness,» Matt Sheehan, a fellow at the Paulson Institute, wrote in a blog post last month.

As we wrote back in June about the systemic threat created by passive strategies: «If a key sector failure, a geopolitical crisis, or even an unknown, black box bias pulls an algorithmic risk trigger, will the herd run all at once?»

SA: Arguably governments and central banks are the most serious threats, as they could make life difficult for Bitcoiners in many places around the world, even though their attempts will likely be futile in the long run.

If that's even slightly off, debt - to - GDP could keep rising — and stick dangerously near the 90 percent mark that economists regard as a threat to sustainable economic growth.

On the issue of space, even given the threat of initial Soviet successes, Fey condemned American exploration as a «fantastic waste» of economic resources (May 24, 1961).

Many Americans view the United Nations as a threat to our sovereignty even though, in fact, it has functioned more as an instrument of United States» foreign policy than as a challenge to our power.

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much attention, not even those who, in the middle of the Cold War, saw America's «singing left» as a threat to the republic....

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

If the person is an alcoholic, he will usually experience even the best - intentioned pastoral concern about his drinking as an accusation and a threat.

I found my faith again in the margins — through the Gay Christian Network, for example, and among fellow doubters and dreamers who limp from their wrestling with God — and I'll be amplifying and supporting these efforts even more as they face potential new threats under this administration.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

Neither of these represents the real threat to optimum church - state relations, and both have served as distractions from the danger of the moment, which is not religious dominance — or even «secularism» — but statism.

I can, of course, trick you into a choice by false promises, or intimidate you into it by threats; I can even apply physical force if you do not do as I wish, and imprison, maim, or kill you.

as it is reflected in the gospels, which seems to draw from an even deeper spring than apprehension of a threat to the national heritage.

Yet he makes it a point to praise those brave Islamic leaders who, whatever one thinks of their regimes, have assisted the West, even as they face mortal threats from their own local fanatics.

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

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.

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.

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.

As soon as your daughter's belief in fairies and leprechauns starts becoming a threat to women's reproductive rights, people's marriage rights, separation of church and state, and even the environment we live in, then we'll start caring about her idiotic beliefs as welAs soon as your daughter's belief in fairies and leprechauns starts becoming a threat to women's reproductive rights, people's marriage rights, separation of church and state, and even the environment we live in, then we'll start caring about her idiotic beliefs as welas your daughter's belief in fairies and leprechauns starts becoming a threat to women's reproductive rights, people's marriage rights, separation of church and state, and even the environment we live in, then we'll start caring about her idiotic beliefs as welas well.

So once again, just as the ten plagues put on display the power by God over the impotence of the various Egyptian deities, so also, the crossing of the Israelites through the waters of the Red Sea showed that God even had dominion and power over the threats of chaos, storms, and destruction that were identified with the sea.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

An independent or ecumenical option is thus seen as a threat, not as an opportunity, even by more progressive spirits on both faculties.

The primary issue here is not simply whether «the human race as a whole can guide itself through the perils of the next few years safely and perhaps even realize the promises of the future — indeed, the promises are as astounding as the threats.

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.

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.

Rome's remembered obscurantism on such matters as biblical studies, natural science, and historical development made even potential threats seem intolerable to many educators of loyal but scholarly faith.

This theological tradition was able to portray a striking and even heroic faith, a sort of holding on by the fingernails to the cliff of faith, a standing terrified before the enemy - God, present to man as terror or threat, comforting only in that he kept us from the worse terrors of life without him.

These texts were intentionally mostly burned, as they presented a more, human, even laughing Jesus, and were seen as a threat.