Sentences with phrase «now threatened»

But while this has validated Samsung's bet, it also means that the Note's position is now threatened by numerous competitors.

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«His greatest gift is beyond his science, it is our freedom... That is now threatened as ideology seeks to replace science and control seeks to replace freedom.»

The discovery, they say, offers hope that at least some species may survive global warming, eventually repopulating reefs now threatened by increasing ocean temperatures.

In order of seniority, the seven feedbacks that seem outstanding are: Water vapour — rising by ~ 7 % per 1.0 C of warming; Albedo loss — due mostly to cryosphere decline; Microbial peat - bog decay — due to rising CO2 affecting ecological dynamics; Desiccation of tropical and temperate soils — due to SAT rise and droughts; Permafrost melt — due to SAT rise plus loss of snow cover, etc; Forest combustion — due to SAT rise, droughts, pest responses, etc; Methyl clathrates [aka methane hydrates] now threatened by rising sea - temperatures, increased water column mixing, etc..

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That fragile consensus is now threatened, according to Kim Delfino, California Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife.

The federal Production Tax Credit (PTC), U.S. wind's historically crucial incentive that is now threatened by current budget negotiations, has been inadequate to support the development of offshore wind.

Among the natural world's greatest wonders, the Great Barrier Reef — a reef stretching along the coast of Queensland, Australia — is now threatened by both global warming and pollution.

TRAFFIC and the Pew Environment Group says that with 30 per cent of shark species now threatened or near threatened with extinction, there is little evidence that the plan has contributed significantly to improved conservation.

No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change.

Sea levels are steadily rising, and parts of the Tidewater are sinking, meaning that land once thought safe and dry is now threatened.

In memory of her travels with Alfred Jensen in the ancient ruins of North Africa, Regina Bogat achieved a series of paintings called Palmyra to pay a tribute to the «Venice of the Sands,» now threatened by the violence in the region.

Most hunted whales are now threatened, with some great whale populations exploited to the brink of extinction.

The emerging technology of television, which had been only a faint crackle of static when Armstrong started his work, now threatened to drown him out.

Unfortunately, Authors United, the group of authors who penned an open letter to Amazon asking the retailer to resolve the issue and agree to terms, has now threatened to call on its readers to help stand their ground, despite Amazon's offer to give Hachette's authors 100 % of the sale price of their books until the matter is concluded.

Charter schools, the one type of public school that is actually being held to account by authorizing bodies, are now threatened with closure if they don't perform to standards other public schools can safely ignore.

Danielle is friendly with Yvonne (the excellent Catherine Walker), a brittle woman whose previously happy marriage to Chris (Andrew Scott) is now threatened by his perilous mood swings.

Daniel Blake (beautifully played by Dave Johns) is a lot like my parents: a good - hearted person who has worked his whole life, and is now threatened with being robbed of everything.

It's now threatened with being submerged as ocean warming raises sea levels.

According to the World Resources Institute, some 75 percent of the world's coral reefs are now threatened and more than 20 percent have disappeared since climate and fishing disturbances have accelerated in the past 30 years.

Many plant species that used to cover large areas of the grasslands are now threatened.

Even the Mangarevan language itself is now threatened with extinction.

The victim of its own composition and of modern air pollution, Europe's most radiant art is now threatened with destruction.

Now threatened or endangered in most of that country, their scarcity could spell trouble for some of their food sources.

Though malaria deaths have dropped by 30 percent worldwide since the introduction of artemisinin - based combination therapies (ACTs) in the late 1990s, these gains are now threatened by the emergence of resistance to the core artemisinin component of ACTs in Southeast Asia.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

These meadows are now threatened, not only by climate change but also by overfishing and eutrophication.

And with more than 500 species of plants and animals now threatened with extinction, New Zealand's ecologists are keen to make the most of the isolation provided by the country's 600 offshore islands.

That is now threatened by the surge in support for Eurosceptic parties in last week's elections (see «What the data says about Europe's lurch to the right «-RRB-.

Reefs are now threatened by warm seas and acidification.

Around 20 percent of all species on the planet are now threatened with extinction.

Here's a look at the forests and some of the animals that are now threatened by their rapid disappearance.

ALBANY — An ethics bill stalled by a nasty power struggle in New York's Senate this summer is now threatened because a Democrat whose father has died will likely miss Thursday's vote.

So it seems that even the left's favorite route to power: the judiciary is now threatened by those pesky voters.

The Liberal Democrat leader claimed this service was now threatened with closure, under new government plans to move the functions of 46 fire and rescue centres to regional command centres.

Key to this «better and fairer society» was what the first minister called Scotland's «social contract», «which has delivered universal benefits such as free university education and personal care for our elderly»; a contract he claimed was «now threatened by both Labour and the Tories».

It was a third straight defeat for Lazio whose position in third — 17 points behind Napoli — is now threatened by Inter Milan and Roma who host Bologna and bottom side Benevento respectively on Sunday.

# 100M of midfielders in Mata, Herrera and Fellaini whose places now threatened — do they stay / can Utd keep them?

These peoples are now threatened by a new divine scourge, each in turn.

While some have been granted legal status, others — including the dozens now threatened with deportation — have seen their applications denied or stalled.

These various lines have by now threatened to undermine foundationalism altogether, but the institutional superstructures that secured foundationalism's triumph remain intact.

A cosmic interpretation of revelation is important today not only because of our need to address the question of purpose in the universe, but also because our globe is now threatened by an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions.

In short, a strong case can be made for saying that, as both the common good of society and the particular good of citizens is now threatened by political voluntarism, so also both the common and particular good of lovers (and families) is threatened by the voluntaristic and limited nature of the promises and undertakings that typically characterize the new reformers» account of sexual relations.

A global industrial slowdown is now threatened, and must continue until foreign domestic markets are nurtured — just the opposite trend from the recent generation of neoliberal anti-labor policies.

But to get there, PR professionals need to first acknowledge that some of what they do is now threatened by Facebook news and advertising.

But that standing is now threatened.

Various publishers have now threatened to simply block O2's customers from seeing their content at all, if it goes through with its proposal.

The family has now threatened Mattel with «necessary measures» over their use of her image without the «proper authorization.»