Sentences with phrase «farther than threats»

The idea of having a meaningful and desirable relationship with God with go a lot farther than threats of hell.

Not exact matches

Now, however, Silicon Valley's reduced involvement frustrates civil liberties groups because of a widely held view that Section 702 poses a far greater threat to privacy than the telephone program, which did not harvest actual content.

Yet his veto threats have been piling up rapidly since Republicans took full control of Congress, numbering more than a dozen so far this year.

«US protests movements» and «civil disobedience» were listed among the choices for potential threats, but they were selected far less often than white nationalism.

But if the extremely wealthy, under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence, that's a far bigger threat to freedom of the press than most of the things we commonly worry about on that front.

The recent kerfuffle about Bernie Sanders purportedly not knowing how to bust up the big banks says far more about the threat Mr. Sanders poses to the Democratic establishment and its Wall Street wing than it does about the candidate himself.

And as a result the threat to the west is far greater today than it was seven and half years ago.»

In fact, a lack of regard for the poor is based on an ignorance of the Bible, and that is far more a concern than any so - called secular threat.

The constant threat of a US remake has so far proved no more than a rumour, but the show lives on through an enthusiastic fan community that continues to hold an annual convention called Tedfest, which is well worth a Google search.

Nicaragua, nonaligned and successfully improving the living standards of the poor within the framework of a mixed economy and political pluralism, posed a far greater threat to U.S. interests than a Soviet puppet state ever could.

People who do that are a far greater threat than the «threat» they claim to be «protecting» their societies from.

Actually, non-believers that do good deserve far more credit than Christians because they do it because they feel it's right, rather than due to bribes (heaven) and threats (hell).

Political scientist Ruth Melkonian - Hoover finds that white evangelicals who worship alongside immigrants are far less likely to view immigrants as a threat (19.6 %) than white evangelicals as a whole (50.7 %).

Science, however, has faced, is facing, and will continue to face a far more obvious threat than that posed by the particular philosophical beliefs of scientists.

Still, anyone who cares about preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame can recognize that if the greatest threat to the Catholic character of the University were Protestantism, the situation would be a far happier one for Catholics than is the present situation.

I personally think bigoted people like yourself are a far greater threat than your perceived social ill.

In this matter, «depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves... poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do.»

The issue goes even further to suggest that no country should be able to require mandatory GMO labeling on food items, even though science shows that GMOs act differently in the body than do natural organisms and are a threat to health.

Having been eliminated from Europe's premier competition at the quarter - final stages the last four years, Blanc will have to find a way to get over the hurdle sooner rather than later, or his job could come under further threat.

Evan Turner is by far having his best season as a pro this year, largely due to the fact that he's the only real scoring threat on the 76ers other than Michael Carter - Williams.

He'll be expensive for sure, but Ronaldo is still a bonafide scoring threat and is far more lethal than either Wayne Rooney or Anthony Martial.

Our players look far too timid at times and anytime The Boss or on rare occasions Mertesacker, isn't there I am worried anytime a team with more than one attacking threat play against us.

He has still adjusted far better than many when they arrive at Anfield, and adding his overall threat to the team has definitely made the Reds even more unplayable when they click.

Anyway, the Frenchman does offer something different up front, he's far more of a goal threat than Kevin Davies and Ivan Klasnic who are more hold - up forwards than prolific goal - getters.

Despite being a full - back he is one of our most potent attacking threats and far more competent at crossing the ball than other players that we employ specifically for that purpose.

Edmilson offers far more than Hernandez in the middle of the pitch, but the Mexican provides obvious goal threat — and he only needed one chance, sweeping the ball home right - footed with typical composure to level the proceedings.

Antoine Griezmann is one player Germany can not let lose, he has already scored 4 goals in the tournament and will be hunting golden boot while Dimitri Payet and Paul Pogba also offer greater attacking threat than any of the teams Italy has faced so far.

Alfred Sacchetti, an emergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than abduction.

We can force external obedience temporarily, but only by constantly escalating the threats, emotional manipulations, and punishments which accomplish nothing in the long run and do far greater damage than they are worth.

First, it will lift the threat of possible by - elections that could be triggered by the ongoing police investigation into allegations that the Conservative Party systematically over-spent in the 2015 election and far exceeded legal restrictions on election expenses in more than 10 seats.

With the Ukip threat looming larger than ever now the latest wave of immigration to Britain is underway, this is far from the best approach.

This is a far more vexing and dangerous political threat than the governor faced in the likes of other rivals, like Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio, each of whom he has bullied and belittled without much trouble.

If the threat is other nation states, the media and diplomacy are far more effective deterrents than such weapons can ever be.

UKIP's break - through is a major development in British politics, but as May 2015 approaches this poses a far greater electoral threat to the Tories than Labour.

MRSA Action UK has persistently through its press releases and in meetings with politicians of all political parties along with senior Department of Health officials, warned that the present screening system was in our opinion inadequate and that they had to step up their game or we would be overwhelmed in the future from threats far more dangerous than MRSA and C.diff.

So far Gordon Brown's rhetoric has displayed a more cautious response to the terror threat than the previous government's.

As far back as last winter, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was «less preoccupied with the overburdened shelter system» than with «the political threat from protests against proposed shelters» in Rockaway Beach and Elmhurst, sources told New York magazine.

It seems that it was the fault of a crowd control strategy that blew any perceived threat out of all proportion, and actually resulted in making the situation far more dangerous than it needed to be.

As far back as last winter, de Blasio was «less preoccupied with the overburdened shelter system» than with «the political threat from protests against proposed shelters» in Rockaway Beach and Elmhurst, sources told New York magazine in a cover story out Monday.

«I don't see it as an idle threat,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the powerful New York State United Teachers union that has won far more battles than it's lost in Albany for its 600,000 - plus members.

«I think his leadership poses the biggest single threat to the future existence of the Labour party far more than any other factor, but it's not personal.

Further calculations showed that the object, named 1996 JA1, would pass by at less of a distance than the moon is from Earth, spawning the first widespread media coverage of an asteroid threat.

People who suffer panic disorders may misjudge threats, seeing them as far more imminent than they really are.

Proponents counter that the threat of a global pandemic, were this mutated strain to arise in nature, is far greater than the threat of bioterrorism.

«Natural infectious disease is a far greater threat than bioterror,» says Steve Block of Stanford.

But thiomersal is not a threat, and banning it would create far more human misery than failing to negotiate a treaty at all.

That's the stark message from the first global survey of amphibians, which has found they are under far greater threat of extinction than birds or mammals.

Today, however, the nature of nuclear threats is far different than 50 years ago, said Adam N. Stulberg, codirector of the center at Georgia Tech.

The Mighty Saber simulation was a sobering acknowledgment of many experts» belief that an attack on U.S. soil is more likely than ever — yet tracing responsibility would be far harder than it was during the Cold War, when the chief threat was annihilation by the Soviet Union.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).