Sentences with phrase «much less a threat»

If South American nations can overcome these obstacles, this should be possible in parts of the world where domination has thus far been chiefly economic, with much less threat of overt military intervention.

Nor does the lesson discuss the difference between a fundamental principle and a personal desire or between legal protest, civil disobedience, and purely criminal activity, much less the threats that each poses to a democratic society.

Not exact matches

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

They would be so much less of a threat to Google.»

Very few people in the West grasp the reality, much less the magnitude, of this threat to what might be called «cognitive security»: the capacity of Western populations to see things as they are, including things going on in our own societies.

The trial judge also concluded that (para 285) «the threat of sale by independent retailers to the major supermarket chains constrained Metcash's wholesale pricing decisions» and that the competitive constraint imposed by Franklins was much less than that imposed by the major supermarket chains - these findings of the trial judge were set out by Yates J at para 297 as follows:

A parent is tasked with so much more today, despite the threats to our survival being less.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

«And since the Igbo have virtually infiltrated every nook and cranny of Northern Nigeria where they have been received with open arms as fellow compatriots, we strongly believe that the region is no longer safe and secure in the light of the unfolding threats and the fact that for a long time, the Igbo have gone to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that in their domain in the South East, Northerners and Westerners are as much as possible disenfranchised from owning any businesses whereas in Kano alone, they own not less than 100, 000 shops across all the business districts.

Silver Nanoparticles: No Threat to the Environment - This report will demonstrate that silver nanoparticles do not remain «nanosize» when they come in contact with normal environmental samples, such as soil and water, but they agglomerate to form much larger, much less biologically effective, silver particles which are non-toxic, non-ionic and have no history of being harmful to the environment or aquatic life.

Despite the website being much more private than most other internet dating websites, allowing for less shared information and possible security threats, it still publishes an in depth safety section.

Director José Padilha took the stage after that footage to discuss his new movie, including some talk about the future threat of drones and robotics technology used in war and law enforcement, as he described a remake that may have much less to do with the original than we had expected.

His flying and swimming skills (accompanied by the familiar animation instantly recognizable to long - term series fans) make the deadly water much less of a threat, and I got the sense that Tails will often be the best choice for players who find Sonic Mania's challenges a bit too tough at first.

They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $ 48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to «disrupt» them, and whose chief executive said recently «even well - meaning gatekeepers slow innovation» (where «innovation» is code - speak for «opportunities for me to turn a profit»).

When people think to themselves «I'm only risk 2 % per trade, that's not too much, and it will decrease my position size as I lose», it literally makes them less sensitive to the risk in the market and to the threat of account - destruction that results from over-trading.

Once bulls were less of a threat in New York, and less of a spectacle in the United Kingdom, there wasn't much work for bulldogs to keep on thriving.

Getting him neutered will tackle the problem in a two - pronged approach: firstly, it will largely prevent him from initiating any problems, as he will have much less desire to fight; and secondly, it will prevent other dogs from perceiving him as a threat and acting accordingly, since he will no longer smell much like a male.

Conservation Status The most recent edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed the Channel Islands slender salamander as of Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is much less than 5,000 per square kilometer, it is common and occurs in an area of extensive, suitable habitat which appears not to be under threat, it has a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Bankruptcy is pretty much a non-existent threat, and while in the Challenge Mode (like Sandbox, but with financial restrictions and optional objectives) you can increase the difficulty to make guests more pissy and rides less reliable, that simply scales the challenge rather than deepening it.

In just such as short space of time (five months) PUBG hit the special ten million which most games have never even been close to however in less than one month Fortnite Battle Royale showed just how much of a threat their game really is to PUBG, although this is partly because of PUBG playable at a price and with it yet to have arrived to Xbox One!

I never would have thought a JRPG on the Wii would be a wallet threat, much less my favorite game of 2012 so far.

The Beamos is on this list for much the same reason as the Armos — its variations all look amazing and its method of defeat fluctuates from game to game — but the Beamos has the added element of presenting a constant threat of high damage output (via laser beam no less) and, sometimes, genuine invincibility.

There is that, too, the threat of extinction, which may affect physical painting much less, because if worse comes to worst, you can still make up paint using eggs and earth pigments.

Cold water corals are also under threat, although much less is known about these very recently discovered ecosystems.

If we are going to build sustainably, we have to use more wood and less concrete, especially in Canada where we have so much if it under threat from beetle infestations.

Doing speculative threat assessments is not the same as taking climate change seriously, much less a «firm embrace.»

However, the call for control of greenhouse gas emissions in Agenda 21 is much less precise than the obligations to adopt policies and practices to prevent the threat of climate change that the George H.W. Bush administration had agreed to when it negotiated and Congress ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

However, the question is whether the large time and human resources that are used to create these climate model runs could be more effectively used for other scenario methodologies [which would be much less costly] and, even more importantly, in developing responses to climate (and other environmental threats) so as to reduce the risks we face.

The term «comprehensive» can be seen as an indirect reference to an emissions cap, but there was no specific reference to it, much less a veto threat.

The concern is that the Amazon, which is under increasing threat like so many other key environments around the world, reaches a tipping point where much of it is transformed into less productive and less helpful Savannah.

But what belies the emphasis on risk is much less extant threats than a distrust of people — a loss of faith in the idea that people can manage their own risks to themselves, to others, and can made decisions about how they are governed.

Somehow in the past year or so, however, the threat posed by snow globes has apparently dropped from Code Red to something much less scary — to the point that the TSA has actually changed its policy and given snow globes the «OK» to be checked in baggage.

The threat of finding the attorney in contempt is made much less frequently than it was when I first started practicing seventeen years ago.

As for the rest, well, the dystopian evidence seems overwhelming indeed, to the point where it might be no stretch at all to say the biggest threat facing America is perhaps not global warming, not perpetual warmongering, not garbage food or low - level radiation or way too much Lindsay Lohan, but a populace far too ignorant to know how to properly manage any of it, much less change it all for the better.

While the risks and financial commitment associated with renting is much less that those that will be placed on TX homeowners, there are still some threats that you will want to be aware of.