Sentences with phrase «grave threats»

Illinois and many other states accept the notion that parents may be held legally accountable for the deaths of their children when they have witnessed or otherwise know of grave threats to their safety.

«There is evil in the world and we face grave threats to our national security,» Holder said, «but we must reclaim our moral leadership by no longer letting fear rule our reactions.»

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

The warming as well as the droughts caused by climate change, combined with the unsustainable use of aquifers and surface water, pose grave threats to the availability of fresh water and food security.

The warming as well as the droughts caused by climate change, combined with the unsustainable use of aquifers and surface water, pose grave threats to availability of fresh water and food security.

And grave threats to public health and safety.

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

Bjørn Lomborg's recent essay on environmental alarmism overlooked a number of grave threats to the planet, most notably overconsumption.

Those on the right fear that the Common Core inappropriately imposes national education standards on states, does not come with a clear implementation process, and poses grave threats to student privacy.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

However, not enough attention has been paid to what we believe to be two equally grave threats to science education, namely Maharishi and Steiner schools.

«The grave threats and pressures at the time do not justify the serious failures in the internal and external communications following the fatal shooting of Mr de Menezes,» he added.

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.»

Yet breastfeeding promotion has taken on moralizing tone typically associated with grave threats to children's health:

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.»

• Covert activities, the Church panel says, should be employed only by the CIA and only when «required by extraordinary circumstances to deal with grave threats to national security» — a definition that would drastically curtail CIA's past habits.

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

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.»

More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional theater - only cinematic runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»

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).

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.

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.

So where is the grave threat to religious freedom?

The trend poses a grave threat to American democracy: as Sarat quotes from Thurgood Marshall in his dissenting opinion in Payne, this return of revenge signals «one major step toward the demise of a conception of law as a «source of impersonal and reasoned judgments.»»

Similarly, Esther experienced the grave threat of Purim and sanctioned the celebration of Jewish victory.

That demographic shift poses a grave threat to white racialized political, social, and economic dominance.

The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve or enrich wildlife habitat — the destruction of which is the gravest threat to nearly all species.

The sculptures represent the first installment of a traveling exhibit, Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea, which illustrates how plastic pollution has become one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals, while helping the public understand what they can do to be a part of the solution.

Shedd Aquarium is one of 19 accredited aquariums across the United States announcing the joint creation of a new Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP) focused on addressing one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals — plastic pollution.

Its course of action upon learning of the grave threat was not to protect the public interest, but rather to minimize the impact of the threat to their image as a company, and the status of its case before the Supreme Court.

«The Bill is presently before the National Assembly, and it is a grave threat to the principles of fiscal federalism.

«I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.»

«Governor Cuomo is absolutely right that the dangerous Indian Point nuclear plant poses a grave threat to New Yorkers and must be shut down,» he said in a statement.