Sentences with phrase «insidious threat»

But for wildlife, noise from honking, and zooming vehicles can often be an insidious threat: it can degrade habitats without...

Beneath the surface of these obvious problems lies a more insidious threat to the quality of public education for all children.

The more insidious threat, reformers contend, is for schools and the communities of students and parents they serve to get comfortable with a still - inadequate status quo.

An equally hazardous but more insidious threat arises from collapses of unstable rock slopes.

These reactors also face a more insidious threat: age.

Some of Egypt's ancient monuments harbour a more insidious threat — they contain high levels of the radioactive gas radon.

It is «the revolutionary form of political romanticism» that poses the insidious threat.

All the President's sinister and inappropriate talk about redlines, insults and his insidious threats can not change the position of those opposed to the agreement and neither is anyone intimidated.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

So indulge me when I say that we will never achieve our goals if we do not squarely confront several insidious threats to the dignity and well - being of people around the world.

Not exact matches

An Irish artist has reacted to Pope Benedict XVI's recent statement that gay marriage is one of the most «insidious and dangerous» threats to the world by painting a canvas called «You May Now Kiss The Groom.»

The Technique does not use fear or threats, nor is it interested in devising some kind of insidious propaganda as it was understood in the l930s.

Although the enemy identified by the Brazilian was undoubtedly a noxious and dangerous threat not merely to the Church but to civilisation as such, I can not help thinking that the target identified by Trower has proved in the longterm to be much more insidious and destructive in the West.

This may seem like a small thing but its insidious message is a continuation of the threat to all of us who value individual autonomy and see vaginal birth as something beautiful.

Childhood obesity is a serious threat, and chocolate milk is an insidious contributor.

The insidious, creeping nature of the threat has her particularly concerned.

These fires are an insidious, persistent, and often nearly invisible threat to local health and to the natural and built environment.

Stress can be acute in response to a large threat like a fire or chronic and insidious from aspects of daily life.

Variety says, «If the robust commercial performance of 2011's «Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol» made a follow - up inevitable, then luck turns out to be very much on the side of this unusually spry and satisfying fifth entry, which finds the surviving members of the Impossible Missions Force trying to neutralize an insidious global threat, while struggling to convince their skeptical overlords that there is such a threat to begin with.

Jordan Peele's film hit such a nerve when it was released a year ago because it spoke to a black experience in America that was fraught, insidious, and under threat.

Stereotype threat — the fear of being judged on the basis of negative stereotypes, and the fear of doing something that would confirm those stereotypes — is insidious.

The Threat: A Hiver, insidious disembodied presence drawn to powerful magic.

One of the ways it can be such a threat to vision is by being such an insidious disease.

The larger threats to the dogs are much more insidious and mainstream than even the threat of dog fighting, and result in an unforgivable prejudice that condemns countless pit bulls to homelessness and an early death.

[19] In a series of insidious small abstract paintings from 1994 — 95, words forming threats are rendered as blank widths of contrasting color like Morse code.

The acidification of oceans may well be the most insidious and pervasive threat to life in the oceans everywhere, simply because so many different plants and animals that play key roles in ecosystems will likely be affected — coccolithophores, pteropods, corals, mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters, snails), echinoderms (urchins, seastars), arthropods (lobsters, crabs, shrimp), etc., etc..

Former Tuvalu Prime Minister Saufatu Sopoanga, demonstrates of how far some people are willing to go to prostitute their victimhood for financial gain, likening the threat of climate change «of no difference to a slow and insidious form of terrorism against us.»

The threat is real and serious, and is of no difference to a slow and insidious form of terrorism against us.»

There's an insidious issue called stereotype threat.