Sentences with phrase «hold potential threats»

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Should this trend really take hold, as I suspect it could, there's a definite threat of a potential capital flight storm that could have far reaching consequences for the American economy.

I would also love a tippety top striker to improve our potential / threat in front of goal but I suspect again Wenger feels he holds an adequate pool to choose from.

That's actually more of a threat in Arcuri's case, where the WFP has actually had discussions with a potential challenger, Les Roberts, who dropped out of the 2006 primary to clear the field for Arcuri and improve the party's chances of winning a long - held GOP seat.

A former University of Rochester professor who now holds a chair in security policy at Ohio State University thinks Americans are more worried about the potential threat of an unstable North Korea than they should be.

«If [Health and Human Services] does nothing, we can not continue to hold up these hospitals,» Cuomo told reporters and a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers in the Red Room in the Capitol, citing the example of the two Brooklyn hospitals whose deteriorating financial condition has led to threats of potential closure and in the case of Interfaith, more than a year of tumultuous bankruptcy proceedings.

Advances in motion - capture technology hold enormous potential as a tool for analyzing surveillance video for possible security threats

And while they may not pose the same global threats as those in Greenland and Antarctica, which hold great potential to affect global sea levels in the future, there are still many human communities in their wake that stand to suffer from their loss.

Now consider the complex world of quantum computing, where bits of information can simultaneously hold multiple states beyond zero and one, and the potential threats become even trickier to tackle.

Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, and they hold considerable potential for combatting antibiotic - resistance and other threats to human health.

The approach used in this research «holds great potential to generate more rifamycin analogs to combat the threat of MDR strains of M. tuberculosis, and / or other life - threatening pathogens,» the researchers wrote in their conclusion.

A team of researchers has discovered that a near - Earth asteroid, included on NASA's list of potential threats to Earth, is composed of loosely - connected debris held together by forces that have not been seen on an asteroid before.

Last week, the head of American Airlines, Gerard Arpey, criticized a potential joint venture between Japan Airlines and Delta and admitted that high market shares and large slot holdings by airlines would pose a major threat to competition.

Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China — a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.

And there were apparently real concerns all over the world about anthropogenic pollution from horse manure (APHM)-- real enough to hold a global APHM conference (like Kyoto) to deliberate about how to address this potential future threat.

Looking at the programme of last week's third annual transition conference held at the Battersea arts centre in south London, it doesn't appear as if there were any events that specifically discussed the potential threats to the movement, but it would be interesting to hear from any Transitionites about the challenges that still need to be overcome if the movement is to continuing expanding into new communities.

These internal incidents of workplace violence leave employers largely liable for any problems that occur in the workplace under the «Negligent Hiring Doctrine» dictating that employers can be held liable for damages if they knowingly employ persons known to pose a potential threat to co-workers or the public.