Sentences with phrase «face of threats»

«The ambassador re-iterated that the UK would stand shoulder to shoulder with Gibraltar in face of threats from Spain.»

«Right now it is important time for women to demonstrate solidarity in face of the threats upon us in regards to women's rights.

Species of ants from Southeast Asia is officially classified as Colobopsis explodens for its extraordinary capability to rip itself apart in face of threats.

In the face of threats that come from rapid change, we're programmed by evolution to seek what seems like safety — fall back on what's worked in the past, choose the most obvious paths forward, hunker down and dig in — even when it's obvious that such behaviors are incredibly dangerous.

«Today's Summit will underline that we remain committed to defending our people and upholding our values as liberal democracies in the face of any threat, whether at home or abroad,» May said in a statement Wednesday night.

F - 35 fighter jets to Taiwan, saying it would help it «remain a democracy» in the face of threats from China.

In the face of this threat, the FCC took enforcement actions that stopped discriminatory conduct, imposing merger conditions, attaching requirements to stimulus grants for broadband services and to certain parts of the wireless spectrum, and, in 2010 and 2015, promulgating enforceable rules.

Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein is taking aim at Republican lawmakers who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying that he would not comment on documents «that nobody has the courage to put their name on» and asserting that he will not change his behavior in the face of threats.

Man is an organism struggling for survival, in the face of threats from natural forces and other living things.

In accepting ourselves as accepted we participate in the self - affirmation of being - itself; we seek the sustaining power which undergirds and supports our courage to be in the face of the threat of non-being.

In face of these threats to our being when we do not know how we will go on — or even care — God comes with the grace which is the courage to be.

8:17) and his peaceful withdrawal in the face of threats, his desire for anonymity, as the fulfillment of Isaiah 42:1 - 4 (Matt.

The effective individual in the face of threat seems to be one who permits the development of illusions, nurtures those illusions, and is ultimately restored by those illusions.

No one mentioned denial... it says >» the effective individual in the face of threat seems to be one who permits the development of illusions».

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.

In the face of threats from both the left and the right, they wish to continue its omission from the curriculum.

It may trust in the promise for redemption of human history even in the face of the threat of nuclear disaster.

We need to stand up in the face of the threats we are seeing to our democracy and basic human decency.

It also suggests ways to defend Australian agriculture in the face of threats from invasive species and plant and animal diseases.

It helps scientists uncover patterns in bird distribution and movement, which is critically important in the face of threats such as climate change.

People seek security in the face of threats and grow closer to their sources of comfort.

Reluctantly, Bertie is plunged into a situation where he must take the crown and unite the British Empire in the face of the threat from Hitler's Germany.

John Reid said this morning's meeting of interior ministers and EU Commission officials in London «symbolises our keenness to stand together in the face of that threat».

But faced by a Conservative party that seems to feel forced to head to the right in the face of the threat posed by Ukip, he will insist that, so long as he remains deputy prime minister, the government as a whole will not vacate the centre ground.

Kennedy admitted publicly that he had been receiving treatment for alcoholism just months after leading the Liberal Democrats to their greatest success in the 2005 general election, when he was forced to stand down in the face of the threat of resignations by senior colleagues.

He writes that governments now recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early 21st century must centre on the creation of public confi dence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism, proliferation of weapons and mass destruction and natural hazards.

«There is a case for Britain in the early 21st century, with its imperial strength behind it, to slip quietly, even graciously into a different role,» he said, adding that to retreat in the face of the threat we face would be a «catastrophe».

Her voice rising in anger, she vowed that New York's immigration stance would not change in the face of the threat.

He says we must remain vigilant in the face of the threat from terrorism.

«This gives reef management a major boost in the face of the threats posed by climate change and, encouragingly, suggests people can take tangible steps to improve the outlook for reefs,» Dr MacNeil says.

Unpublished work shows their yawns are more contagious after a sudden loud noise, suggesting yawning might help coordinate group alertness in the face of a threat.

This refers to the limit of warming beyond which the island states will become unviable in the face of threats including rising sea levels, flooding, ocean acidification and drought.

Still, he adds, even better collaboration and communication will be required in the face of a threat that could change overnight.

This is the classic «fight or flight» response designed to make us stronger, faster, and more resilient in the face of a threat to our physical safety.

These are the divisions of the autonomic — or involuntary — nervous system that determine whether we are ready to act quickly and decisively in the face of threats and opportunities (sympathetic nervous system), or relax, digest, and recover from bouts of activity (parasympathetic nervous system).

Your skin won't fall to pieces where you stand, but it will be weaker in the face of threats and generally less appealing.

Of course, whenever Wahlberg is called on to crack wise or play tough in face of threat, the actor hits the sweet spot of his trademark persona.

The history of the school, as Gauld recounts it, was a sequence of moral dramas in which the founder insisted on clinging to the original vision in the face of threats to Hyde's very existence.

But now, it seems as though Amazon has backed down in the face of threats from the EU.

Amazon cut the price of the Kindle in July and revamped the line in the face of a threat in the e-reader market from Apple's iPad and companies such as Sony and bookstore Barnes & Noble, which also offer e-readers.

Amazon cut the price of the Kindle and revamped the line in the face of a threat in the e-reader market from Apple's iPad and companies like Sony and bookstore Barnes & Noble, which also offer e-readers.

Amazon cut the price of the Kindle and revamped the line in the face of a threat in the e-reader market from Apple's iPad, the Sony Reader and the Nook.

The American Temperament Test «focuses on and measures different aspects of temperament such as stability, shyness, aggressiveness, and friendliness as well as the dog's instincts for protectiveness towards its handler and / or self - preservation in the face of a threat (from the ATTS website).