Sentences with phrase «fear over the threat»

... Political momentum... I don't see why there should be all this fear over the threat of somebody invoking political momentum.

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They're the ones who drove Robin Williams» grief - stricken daughter off of Twitter, who caused one female journalist to call the police in the middle of the night for fear that death threats might be carried out, and who turned Pepe the frog into an official hate symbol, over the objections of the cartoonist who created him.

Abraham fears Sarah's beauty as a threat to his own safety when she is over sixty - five and again when she is past ninety (12 and 20)

The Holy Church has withstood several and millions of threats and perils in the course of history, and Christ has said clearly, «have no fear, I have conquered the world», and else where in the Bible we remember Him saying, «Peter, you are rock, and on this I build my Church, and so no forces of evil shall ever prevail over you..»

Fears and concerns over the threat of attacks from such extremists tend to overshadow the wider and deeper questions about how Christians, and Catholics in particular, should relate to Islam as a religion and to Muslim neighbours and acquaintances on a personal and practical level.

«Instead of cowering in fear over the imagined threat of an Islamic immigration invasion, the church can play the critical role in loving Muslim immigrants and helping them integrate into a very strange culture,» suggested evangelical writer Alan Noble.

The essential plot elements of Inherit the Wind — the lonely stand of the brave individualist against the small - minded bigotry of the townspeople, Cates» fear and trembling as he waits in his prison cell, the threat of ruin hanging over his head («The Scopes character and his fiancee play each scene as if he were on the way to the electric chair,» wrote one film reviewer)-- are pure fabrication.

I love the Giroud that closes down players and the GK and stops falling over light tackles, when he has fear of losing his spot he does run more and use his strength better, Theo replacing him is a real threat.

Fears over the behaviour of supporters, perceived threats of racism and questions marks over whether they should have even been allowed to host the tournament have taken centre stage away from the actual team playing in the tournament.

Even if it is «just» the worry of tripping over a cat while carrying the baby down the stairs or the fear that the cat litter in the bed might make baby sick, we * feel * the threat in a very real way.

And, recalling Sunstein's fear of blackmail, there is a risk that Scotland will use the threat of independence to exercise a disproportionate say over UK policy - making: agree with us, or we leave.

Last week, the prime minister dismissed Davis and Huppert's fears as «airy fairy» and made a veiled threat to the Guardian to show more «social responsibility,» over their stories.

They fear the threat of deselection will be wielded over them to keep them in line.

Ortom said that the fear of the people stemmed from continuous threat by the herdsmen who despite the killings still issued threat on daily basis to take over Benue land.

Some brain scientists believe that our fear systems are prepared to learn about threats — snakes, spiders, or heights — that have been major obstacles to survival over the millions of years it has taken the modern brain to evolve, which explains why it is easier to develop phobias about snakes than about threats that are statistically much more likely to kill you, such as electricity.

The NBAS report, Improving the Nation's Ability to Detect and Respond to 21st Century Urgent Health Threats, is the second by the group originally assembled by former President George W. Bush over fears about bioterrorism.

Those threats can range from anxiety over a boat race to fear of mortality.

Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes at Night is a psychological horror film that traps the audience along with two families in an abandoned house in the woods that, over the course of a slow - burning 90 minutes, turns into a cauldron of fear, mistrust and paranoia as they try to survive an unnatural threat that is terrorizing the world.

A dog can only take just so much threat before a defensive / aggressive or fear biting response sets in over that situation.

Maybe it's an evolutionary hold - over from when these animals really did pose a threat to our ancestors, or maybe its because they are so fundamentally different from us biologically; either way, reptiles just seem to tap into some people's basic fears.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).