Sentences with phrase «military threat»

Just as we have faced fire, flood, drought and military threat in the past we now need to throw everything we can at the climate crisis.

An improving global economy and growing military threats continue to push up defense spending.

There's also the new military threat among other terrible things going on that he'll need to uncover with imagery and information for the regular public.

Henry Mayr - Harting's chapter on the «age of conversion» in the West (the former «Dark Ages») is particularly clear and well - stated, and Jeremy Jons» essay, «Christianity and Islam,» is a useful orientation to the theological challenge of Islam as well as to the more familiar political and military threats of Muslims to the late - antique and medieval West.

But you can expect pressure from the United States to get more Canadian water, and who knows, in the future a solution forced by military threats is not impossible to imagine.

Last year, China conducted 16 drills near Taiwan and a report from the island's defense department said China's «military threat towards us grows daily.»

However, when Bitcoin suddenly shot up on Thursday, the online chatter was mostly about the White House's military threats against Russia in Syria, its sanctions on Russia and its tariffs on China, with people speculating that Russians and Chinese might be buying into Bitcoin to quietly get their money out of those countries.

NATO allies believe the alliance needs to respond to what the West says is the Kremlin's mix of not just the conventional military threat but covert and cyber warfare.

The main aim of the mission has been accomplished, the rebels no longer pose a direct military threat to the survival of the Assad regime and the gains made against the rebels are solid enough to be maintained by the Syrian army itself.

If Ukraine is integrated into the West, Russia sees it as a strategic military threat - there's very little defense should Ukraine be a base of attack as opposed to a defensive buffer.

Containment, backed by credible military threat and, as necessary, limited military action, sadly remains the best option in Syria for the time being.

In February, the Department of Defense released its 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a document that analyzes potential military threats to the United States.

Climate change is different from traditional military threats, according to report author Vice Adm. Richard H. Truly, because it's not like «some hot spot we're trying to handle.»

To some degree that's probably true, but surely even if the US just outspent China by 3 times, and other nations increased spending slightly, domestic and global security could be maintained — such as it is, considering the nature of modern military threats being so asymmetric in that non-state actors are just as much a threat as the adversaries of the 20th century.

With its giant boost to military spending, the Trudeau government is gearing up for more Western adventurism, using NATO to prop up a failing finance capitalism by military threats.

However, others have claimed it is a victory for the UK that it did not make an overt military threat or any obvious concessions.

I also think that we have to recognize that supply lines and faculties are often run by civilians during wartime, and that as such they often pose a military threat.

This means, for one thing, reconsideration of the military threat to us in view of the fact that Mr. Khrushchev has a better understanding of the meaning of nuclear war than either the Chinese or some American Senators.

Sennacherib receives news of a military threat in the south.

I was just trying to put in perspective the military threat of each country.

But what was the very last time a state actor gave the US an ultimatum backed by a military threat?

Scheduled topics include: IS Military Threat, Ted Cruz announces Presidential run, Governor Andrew Cuomo's biography by Michael Shnayerson, NCAA Sweet 16.

But Japan still perceives North Korea and Russia as a military threat, and is continuing to spend more on military research.

The South Korean statement continued: «[North Korea] made it clear that it would have no reason to keep nuclear weapons if the military threat to the North was eliminated and its security guaranteed [my emphasis].»

Please ignore my last name, but Germany is no military threat to Europe.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

[2] The Institute argued that the Soviet Union was a military threat.

It seems likely to me that the military threat helped more than harmed the process to agreement.

«The military threats to national security today pale beside the trends of environmental destruction and disruption that threaten the economy and thus our early twenty - first century civilization itself.

Maybe they can segue into negotiations wherein North Korea eliminates its military threat to their southern neighbors and South Korea provides assistance to their northern neighbors who are starving and medically neglected.