Sentences with phrase «huge threat from»

«Their decline tells us we have serious work to do, from protecting local habitats to addressing the huge threats from global warming.»

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As it expands beyond its Ontario stronghold, GoodLife faces increased competition from strong regional clubs and the threat of huge American chains jumping the border.

While it's not clear that there are any additional damages or injuries from this strong aftershock, experts say such strong quakes are huge threats to already - damaged structures...

Theos threat from the wing is huge, so my preference would be to keep him there and bring in a striker.

it tells me they're close enough to be a major threat in the east and that the team didn't take a huge step back from last year.

UEFA president Michel Platini believes that the recent drone incident during Serbia's abandoned Euro 2016 qualifier against Albania highlights a huge security threat to football games, report the Mail, with the potential for bombs to be dropped from remote controlled flying devices.

Mancini managed to alter the role of Toure during his time as manager of City, with the Ivorian becoming a much more potent attacking threat during his time at the club after joining from Barcelona, but it would still be a surprise if Toure repaid the Italian's faith by taking a huge pay cut to move to Serie A at this stage of his career.

The Dutchman was devastating for the Dutch champions in a wide role last season, clearly able to cut inside and prove a huge attacking threat from there.

That tenacity and ruthlessness is a trait we've missed ever since Ronaldo's sale and prove a huge asset to United in their attacking threat, bringing many more goals from wide positions and relieving some of the pressure from the strikers.

Fulham have a decent home record, and have won convincingly against some of the mid-table teams; Dempsey has been their most influential player, and has received able support from Dembele and Hangeland, who has proved to be a huge threat in corners as evinced by his brace against Brum last weekend.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau brushed off the threat - announced from his base that «a huge arsenal of weapons, apparently taken from a military base in Doron Baga had bolstered his group».

Perhaps above all, Labour must remember how starkly the Stern report demonstrated not just the huge environmental threats from climate change, but the costly economic ones too.

Thanks to his repeated threats to vote with the Republicans, Espada wrested another huge asset from his Democratic colleagues — head of the Senate housing committee.

But the comptroller says potentially huge cuts from the federal government present the biggest threat to the state budget.

It is unknown what the heck they are asides from that they are a «huge threat to the Alola region.»

In 2015, George Osborne highlighted the importance of cyber security in his Autumn Statement: «Earlier this year the Prime Minister asked me to chair the government's committee on cyber, and through that I see the huge collective effort required to keep our country safe from cyber attack, the range of threats we face and how this will be one of the great challenges of our lifetimes.»

Let's first look at the biggest threat to Libraries from eBooks — not death but a huge reduction in influence and scope.

The influencing of policy in re global warming faces a huge amount of inertia, but principles of risk mitigation tell us that we should be aggressive about shifting policy to avert possible threats, the opposite of what results from that inertia.

The Trust for Public Land was what is known as an «eco-profiteer:» an organization charged with buying private land at distress prices from rural owners, usually under threat of federal condemnation, then, with the help of huge lobbying efforts and insider congressional contacts, selling it to the federal government at fair market prices and taking a cut.

Coastal marshes absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere; they help filter out pollution in coastal waters; provide habitat for wildlife; help protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and can store huge amounts of floodwater, reducing the threat of flooding in low - lying coastal areas.

Inside National Stadium, the huge new football arena festooned in Poland's colors of red and white, delegates from 194 countries are gathered for yet another attempt to hammer out an international treaty to address the threat of climate change.

The world's biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of climate change.

«But here, in the face of a naked political threat from Big Oil to exact «huge political consequences,» he's stood up strong.»

They also are huge distractions from more immediate and realistic threats.

Rising sea level will have a huge impact, since half the world's population lives within 60 km of an ocean and increased flooding contaminates fresh water supplies and increases the threat from waterborne diseases.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

Because Haverhill is a short 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, weather poses a huge threat to homeowners.