Sentences with phrase «living under threat»

The memoir is not limited to Rushdie's experiences living under the threat of murder, as he looks back upon all the elements that led him to write The Satanic Verses in the first place: life with his father, his schoolboy days, his simultaneous fascination and unbelief in God and, more specifically, Islam.

Her testimony — and that of the other children — provided spectators in the packed hearing room with a dramatic portrait of an age group said to be deeply troubled by living under the threat of nuclear destruction.

The US has lived under threat of nuclear attack for over 50 years.

If it so happens that ten or twenty or fifty years from now all nuclear weapons have been abolished, a few of the persons who grow up in that post-nuclear era may read this essay at some point in their lives and glean from it a feeling for what it was like to live under the threat of global nuclear war.

He lived under the threat of hell with the alternative and only slightly less ghastly prospect of purgatory.

With their lives under threat, the Carters are forced to fight back by any means necessary.»

When I was a child, I lived under the threat of nuclear war.

In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life under threat and Tannie Maria is determined to find out who wants to kill him.

Nobody wants to live under the threat of having a robot spy dog living right under your nose, which is why we're giving away a free dog DNA test from WisdomPanel.

(A national security letter is a secret order that may contain a «nondisclosure» requirement, preventing the person who received the national security letter from ever talking about it for the rest of their life under threat of criminal prosecution.)

Politicians ignore this notion and demand access to everyone's financial life under threat of violence.

Between 1994 and 2010, the overall rate fell by 64 percent across the U.S. 10 In spite of these promising trends, we find that a remarkable 1 in 5 unmarried Texas mothers still lives under the threat of emotional or physical abuse during, and in the months following their pregnancies.

Children and families may have lived under threat and in fear; they may have witnessed the deaths of relatives or friends; or experienced hardship and danger when coming to Australia.

Not exact matches

But the quick pickup way of life is increasingly under threat: Tim Hortons has faced flak because of the emissions created by idling cars and several Montreal boroughs are considering banning the building of new drive - thru outlets.

According to Reuters, Korean Air stated that its cabin crew were hesitant to deploy its tasers because the equipment is only allowed to be used in situation where the lives of the passengers and crew are in danger or if the safety of the flight is under threat.

We're tired of living under the omnipresent threat of gun violence anywhere anytime, at our children's schools, at the mall, just driving around town, enough is enough!

Litecoin, which is under a constant threat of getting caught in a downtrend, continues to show signs of life.

Di Noia later decried a trend toward «exclusive humanism» and said, «That innocent human life is now so broadly under threat has seemed to many of us one of the signs of this growing peril.»

About the veil, specifically though, we must also see it as potentially a form of oppression for the individual, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali has courageously and under threats pointed out poignantly through life and art and biographical writings.

A Christian charity has said the sanctity of human life in Britain is under «real, real threat» after... More

Satanism is premised on a small God who lives in a sheltered place and who is constantly under threat from without, but not on God Who stands in the breach.

We don't live there, and until you have you have no idea what it is live under the constant threat of rockets, war and suicide terrorists.

The intelligence services recognized the threat to Marxist regimes that John Paul represented because, as John Gaddis pointed out, he exposed «the disparities between what people believed and the systems under which the Cold War obliged them to live.»

After the German victory over France and under «the consistent threat of surveillance and censorship,» Bonhoeffer entered a «double life.»

Pathetic that you live under such threat.

In addition to that, however, Catholics in the West today must understand that we are very likely heading into a season of persecution ourselves, a season of the cross less dire than that lived by those Christians presently under direct mortal threat, but quite real nevertheless.

Christians, on the other hand — and especially bishops — were charged to be «lovers of the poor,» a category that comprised both those poor in fact («deep poverty») and those who lived under the constant threat of poverty («shallow poverty»).

Okay, you try living in a 1940's barn attic without making noise under the threat of deportation to the likes of Auschwitz and see how trivial it seems....

They chose to emphasize the nine out of ten who favored permitting abortions under some circumstances, including a threat to the mother's life.

Under his new plan, parents of legal U.S. citizens or green card holders would be allowed to continue to live and work in the United States without the threat of deportation for three years.

«It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East; an area where Christians have lived for 2,000 years, and across which Islam spread in 700AD, with people of different faiths living together peaceably for centuries.»

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

The husband - and - wife team behind the planned Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero have received threats, a New York police spokesman said Sunday, hours after the wife said her life is under threat.

«Christians face a horrid time in Pakistan their lives are under constant threat from extremist terrorist groups and people in their community face severe prejudices that can lead to blasphemy charges.»

At the start of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Islamic scholars Iyad Jamaleddine (an Iraqi Shi'ite) and Hossein al - Khomeini (a grandson of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini) lived under the protection of U.S. troops in a Baghdad mansion because of death threats from Muslim extremists.

It must be really terrible to live your life under a constant threat.

My husband's life is under threat,» she added.

of course some people would try to resist at some point, regardless of the threats (though there will always be those who love living under the command of a seemingly omnipresent, omniscient being.

We also chafe under a convergence of unprecedented military and ecological threats to the continued existence of life on this globe.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

The preacher whose life is always under threat is Troy Perry, founder of UFMCC and author of The Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay.

The precariousness of life, under threat from famine and plague as well as from war, was signalled in the apocalyptic feelings and expressions of the time.

Some Christian commentators on the criminal code bill initially declared it a worse threat to minority faiths than living under the officially Hindu state in the years before.

So I try to put out of my mind the apocalyptic threats under which I live.

Yes, we live an age in which we can self - identify as we wish and demand under threat of litigation that others recognize our identity confections, however bizarre and obviously erroneous, as real.

Once in Spain, women living in captivity and were forced into prostitution under threats of black magic rituals, as well as by physical violence, rape and death threats to the girls themselves and their families in Nigeria.

Small farms also strengthen rural economies, preserve important ecosystems, and help to protect a way of life that is increasingly under threat.

Rio can't pay police officers and hospitals, and most of its citizens live under the constant threat of violence.

Indeed, his closest friends are sworn not to speak about him to the press, under the threat of Bobby banishing them forever from his life.

«We led a charmed life in the first half and we know that our goal was under threat, so I was delighted to just get in at half - time — and then even more delighted to see that they had taken Coutinho off at half - time.»