Sentences with phrase «number of threats such»

In 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an assessment of the state of honey and wild bees across the US, in the face of an increasing number of threats such as colony collapse disorder.

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A number of Christians are asking, «How would America and Christianity survive against such threats as Islam and ISIS?»

The misuse and abuse of religion to consolidate and maintain power is not new to history, but this new threat, in new guises and involving such huge numbers of people, is sufficiently ominous to merit major reexamination and modifications of what we mean by the terms «God» and «Christianity.»

Most scientists thought that a bird's preference for a certain number of companions had to be determined at least in part by life experience or by ecological conditions such as food abundance or the threat of predators.

The coral reefs of the world are in crisis, endangered by a number of coastal threats such as overfishing, pollution, and coastal development as well as global threats such as climate change.

The relatively small number of such cells in a youthful tissue is so small as to be harmless, but after decades of accumulation, the number becomes large enough that their abnormal metabolic state begins to pose a threat to surrounding, healthy tissues.

What's more, the prospect of facing just such an ultimatum is enough to put several Canadian meat eaters off of vegetarian dating: 17 % think that the threat of attempted conversion is the number one reason not to date a vegetarian.

What's more, the prospect of facing just such an ultimatum is enough to put several meat - eaters off of vegetarian dating: 20 % think that the threat of attempted conversion is the number one reason not to date a vegetarian.

This is a common security issue for educational institutions in the UK, and a number of other schools in the Luton area had been the target of such threats, resulting in the loss of valuable data and in exam results being compromised.

Healthwise, this period is also extremely important to the developing kitten, as very young kittens are susceptible to a number of threats, such as fleas and upper respiratory infections.

Healthwise, this period is also extremely important to the developing kitten, as very young kittens are susceptible to a number of serious threats, such as fleas and URIs (Upper Respiratory Infections), which combined with other problems can lead to Fading Kitten Syndrom, a serious and often fatal condition.

The upper portion of the card contains conditions that can increase the threat level based on the current state of New Angeles, such as the threat rising due to outages or the number of Human First supporters currently residing in the city.

New studies also found high risk areas such as Hampton Roads in Virginia now featured tens of thousands of properties under such serious threat of flooding that only FEMA will provide them with insurance — a number that will continue to increase along with the sea levels (globally at 3.3 millimeters of increase per year but as high as 7 - 8 mm per year in some regions).

The IWC is the body charged with regulating whaling and addressing the vast number of other threats to whales, dolphins and porpoises in our oceans such as shipping, climate change, and bycatch.

These worriers include not only environmental groups and anti-capitalist radicals, but also a surprising number of mainstream technocrats throughout the West, such as former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Sir David King, the scientific advisor to the British government, who equates the threat of warming with that of international terrorism.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

The insurance industry must also be alert to the fact that there are multiple potential benefits linked to big data analytics and processes, but there are also a number of growing risks, such as privacy issues and cyber threats, which may have a significant reputational impact on the insurer and the sector if they were to materialise, apart from other consequences attached to regulatory breaches.

Depending on the programmes the company supports, this often includes considering rather weighty (and sometimes inherently unknowable) political and national security - related questions such as: how long and in what numbers will US and NATO forces be deployed in Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan; what level of ballistic missile defences might the US and its allies procure in order to address the threat from North Korea; how might an aviation - related terrorism incident or global recession affect the production rate of Boeing or Airbus airplanes; or, what level of future defence spending might be agreed between the US Congress and the Trump Administration?

The Collaborative Participation Agreement stipulates a number of conditions, such as a commitment to refrain from litigation, or threats of litigation, and to maintain confidentiality and complete, transparent disclosure of all relevant documents and information.

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