Sentences with phrase «grave threat»

These combined forms of water pollution pose grave threats to human health.

This population of about 800 individuals (one shown) faces grave threats to its survival.

However, even these can, on occasion, present grave threats.

But that is under grave threat, both from the party machines and from the way of all flesh.

The government has responded in tough words, warning grave threats but has not announced any response in action.

The report warned that the nation's public schools were a very grave threat to national security.

2011: David Jentsch, Edythe London, and Dario Ringach — Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach were honored for the rare courage they demonstrated in speaking out forcefully for the value of the use of animals in biomedical research, even in the face of grave threats and vicious acts of harassment and vandalism against them and their families.

«The danger of global warming is as grave a threat to our country's and our world's future as the meltdown of its credit markets.

Given that many National Parks are under grave threat from climate change, and

History provides many examples of society confronting grave threats by mobilizing knowledge and promoting innovation.

The teacher looked at the page and exploded, sending Howard back to his desk with grave threats of what would happen if he were to be so impertinent in future.

Legal actions launched by the government targeting reporters to demand the names of confidential sources represent gravest threat to journalistic expression in Canada, said a senior official with Reporters Without Borders amid celebrations of World Press Freedom Day on May 3.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

The peak professional group for Australia's media questions the government's «free speech» motivations for the RDA inquiry, arguing that it occurred against a backdrop of much graver threats (many directly due to government legislation), including:

Apart from making themselves available as attack dogs of the executive arm of government, the police has become so repressive so much so that they are now grave threat to democracy and are working directly against the provisions of the constitution in chapter four which guarantees fundamental freedoms to the citizenry.

In view of all this we must begin our study of John's letter by seeing the nature of the teaching which constituted so grave a threat to the Christian faith and Church.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

To placate them, the White House instituted energy policies that made it appear as if carbon dioxide and global warming were indeed grave threats.

With water shortages and air pollution posing increasingly grave threats to the Middle East, artists in the region are working to make environmental issues more visible, both at home and in international

In April 2000 Joy published a bombshell article in Wired entitled «Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,» which described how the author had come to the realization that advances in genetics, nanotechnology and robotics will eventually pose grave threats to human survival.

Now they struggle against the dying of the light, deploying their few remaining warriors only in the face of gravest threats.

«Uber made such false representations after failing to screen the drivers in any meaningful way, thereby presenting grave threats to Plaintiffs» safety and well - being,» the complaint reads.

The acidification of ocean water from carbonic acid is another extremely grave threat to marine life and anything that depends on it.

The motion was one of the most highly balloted, demonstrating the deep concern of teachers that their pensions and those of their colleagues in other public services, are under grave threat.

Meanwhile, the ice holes spotted over the Beaufort Sea are possible signs of a much graver threat.

For example, at the end of last year, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz called the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine a grave threat to his outlook.

There may come a point at which you say, hey, this is a grave threat, and you can't agree with anything the president does.

Both Israel and Saudi Arabia see Iran as a grave threat, to such a degree that the two countries, once fierce enemies, are now sharing intelligence and cooperating in other ways.

On Wednesday, 150 technology companies — including giants such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft — sent Wheeler a letter decrying his ideas, saying they represent a «grave threat to the Internet:»

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the missile test is a «serious and grave threat to Japan.»

While Gorka echoed the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in characterizing North Korea as a «grave threat» to the US, he added that the country posed a «very, very insignificant threat in terms of scale,» arguing that the country's military power paled in comparison to that of the US.

The international fallout from North Korea's announcement of a «successful» hydrogen bomb test has already begun with world leaders slamming the development as a «grave threat» and «deeply worrying.»

It proclaims crowdfunding represents a grave threat to investors, set to open a «floodgate of fraud.»

I think America and many European countries perceive Islam as a grave threat because you don't understand it and naturally, you fear the unknown.

That same month, Pope Benedict XVI issued a warning to the U.S. bishops: «The entire Catholic community in the United States must come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.»

And none of the nonsense you posted poses a grave threat to the health and safety of the population as a whole, you bonehead.

Today, the democratic experiment faces perhaps its gravest threat» a cultural crisis that is at its core a crisis of faith.

Archbishop Dolan concluded his statement with a matter - of - fact declaration of what is at stake in the debate over DOMA: «The Administration's currentposition is not only a grave threat to marriage, but to religious liberty and the integrity of our democracy as well.»

Those of us who believe that human flourishing depends upon the recognition and honoring of marriage as exclusively the union of a man and a woman see this transformation of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to human society and human happiness.

Radical Islam is a grave threat to Europe, there is no denying this.

Others thought the formula «dictatorship of relativism» a neat summary of a grave threat to freedom and believed that a man with the courage to call things by their true names would make a fine pontiff.

However, there are limits to that commitment — especially when someone presents a grave threat or when they have committed a «particularly serious» crime.

The sophomoric nastiness regularly displayed in Charlie Hebdo most certainly does not constitute any sort of warrant for homicide; the incapacity of some Muslims to live in pluralistic societies and the rage to which those incapacities lead is a grave threat to the West.

Seventy - five years after the French Revolution, Pope Pius IX grasped very clearly the nature of this secularism, and the grave threat it poses to the Church.

So where is the grave threat to religious freedom?