Sentences with phrase «of widespread attacks»

Though the conduct of the election itself was peaceful, jubilations by people associated with the NPP after the results were announced has been characterised by reports of widespread attacks on NDC supporters with some reported deaths.

PSN last suffered a period of downtime back in August as part of a widespread attack that also affected Xbox Live and Battle.net.

Not exact matches

Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

More sophisticated ones open «back doors» that allow their creators to take remote control of computers to, for instance, coordinate a widespread attack on a particular website.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

Last month a report from McAfee and the Ce nter for Strategic and International Studies revealed a growing threat of cyberattack, with widespread attacks on critical systems.

Security experts worry that these types of attacks will become more widespread if mobile phone operators do not make significant changes to their security procedures.

Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug that was thought to increase patients» risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems, has been cleared for widespread use by the Food and Drug Administration.

Now that we're learning more about the widespread coordinated attacks on Christians and other targets (the death toll is at least 162 in this Associated Press report), I sure hope to see more in - depth coverage of what's happening there.

The Fourth area is more the field of ATTAC: all areas of financial deregulation with an aim to tax free - flowing capital or to plan taxes of this type but also to attack pension funds as they become more widespread, or tax havens which play an important role in the world economy.

The project is under attack by a Jewish group that terms it «a throwback to Germany under Hitler,» recalling the «buy Christian» campaigns that started in Germany in the 1930s, and that resulted in a widespread refusal to trade with Jewish merchants in the years preceding the Third Reich's more brutal acts of anti-Semitism.

Slavery was still an issue, there was widespread unemployment and labor agitation, corruption ruled the big cities, Darwinism was attacking the laws of creation, Freud was laying bare the human psyche, and liberal Christians were attacking the uniqueness of the Christian religion.

Marsden notes how ironic it is that Christians are rigorously judged against the standard of rational objectivity at a time when the very possibility of rational objectivity — as an inheritance of the Enlightenment — is under widespread attack.

The widespread popularity of single - striker formations such as 4 -3-3 and 4 -2-3-1 demands that a team's most advanced attacking player must be capable of leading the line on his own.

This January, a UN expert panel accused Saudi Arabia of «widespread and systematic» attacks on civilian targets.

In the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

With student supporters criticising them for heavy handed tactics, many media outlets calling for tougher enforcement and widespread disbelief that the attack on Prince Charles and Camilla's car had been allowed to take place, the Met is under unprecedented scrutiny over its policing of the marches.

One could of course make the argument that limited civilian casualties would be tolerable (assuming adherence to the principles of discrimination and proportionality) to the extent that the air campaign proves successful in forestalling widespread and systematic attacks on civilians.

this dovetails with the widespread view that the attack on the U.S. Mission must have been planned and launched by an al Qaeda affiliate in revenge for the killing of the Libyan - born al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al - Libi by a U.S. drone in June.

In recent years, the proliferation of cheap cameras has combined with the advent of free online video hosting and widespread broadband access to make online video a far more effective proposition than before, both for attack and for defense.

«The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,» the report said.

Furthermore, Article 8 (2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court criminalizes «intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long - term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated.»

Intense and widespread suffering is set to follow if there are repetitions of what appears to be the world's most lethal chemical weapons attack since the 1980s.

The prominent Corby MP was met with widespread sympathy when she announced she was resigning as an MP to spend more time with family in New York, but a minority of commentators attacked her for not treating her parliamentary career with the seriousness it deserved.

The day after huge student protests ended in widespread violence including an attack on a car containing Prince Charles, the assessment of the police response begins.

TUC head Brendan Barber has called for «co-ordinated strike action», the BBC walkout threatens to disrupt coverage of the Tory conference, the Police Superintendents Association has warned that the cuts will trigger «widespread disorder» and the defence select committee has attacked the strategic review as «money - driven, not threat - driven».

«The totality of evidence clearly indicates that the more widespread and appropriate utilization of statins, as adjuncts, not alternatives to therapeutic lifestyle changes, will yield net benefits in the treatment and primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes, including among high, medium and low risk patients unwilling or unable to adopt therapeutic lifestyle changes,» said Hennekens.

For instance, when it comes to victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those who did not die of acute radiation syndrome or the widespread lack of medical care after the attacks lived longer than other members of their generation because they received government - sponsored medical attention for the rest of their lives, Chumak says.

«Testing of ER patients for heart attack in absence of symptoms widespread.»

Results of an initial study of tumors from patients with lung cancer or head and neck cancer suggest that the widespread acquired resistance to immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors may be due to the elimination of certain genetic mutations needed to enable the immune system to recognize and attack malignant cells.

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

«The model we developed in this study is a very good start to helping people forecast the chances they will experience a headache attack, but work is needed to make the prediction models more accurate before they will be of widespread clinical use,» said Dr. Houle.

Robbie's performance is undoubtedly sympathetic to Harding as she experiences widespread shaming in the aftermath of the Kerrigan attack.

The outpouring of speech and action by young people galvanized by the Parkland massacre is heartening, but the attacks on them by the alt right are widespread and ugly.

The use of dogs and other animals in research, the sport of dog fighting, the practice of training attack dogs, the breeding of dogs in puppy mills or unlicensed backyard breeding businesses — all are cruel evidence of America's widespread acceptance of the bad treatment of dogs and their low status in some subcultures.

More widespread community policing initiatives, such as the Local Environmental Awareness of Dogs (LEAD) initiative run by the Metropolitan Police to prevent dog attacks on cats due to irresponsible dog ownership.

The Saudi lead attacks on Yemen seem to have become more aggressive and widespread following the death of 50 Bahraini and UAE troops who are engaged in military action in Marib Yemen.

We are familiar with these enduring attacks on our mental and emotional wellbeing through widespread stories of abuse of power at highest levels of society.

It also addresses his position as a painter working within an international discourse, at a time when contemporary practice in his chosen media was coming under attack from both conservative forces and from the champions of more experimental art forms, giving rise to widespread predictions of «the death of painting».

So, by all means, attack me personally, change the subject, blow smoke, shift the goalposts, nitpick, do anything to divert from the obvious fact that the widespread claim regarding the warming effect of a lack of volcanic activity is simply wrong.

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

attacks on the credibility of good science; climate science has lowered standards for other science, example, widespread poor treatment of the uncertainty of measurements.

ISHR's New York Director Eleanor Openshaw said the move is an unprecedented attack on the crucial oversight provided by experts of countries whose citizens face severe and widespread human rights violations.

The generality of the risk — i.e. how widespread the damage could be — has been underscored by the collapse of large parts of the Internet in North America in the autumn of 2016 through an attack via smart home devices.

The Prosecutor has understood the reasons for the deterioration of the situation in Darfur and the security vacuum which led to attacks on police stations and the ensuing events, including tribal confrontations and conflict among political factions and elements, which led to an escalation of the situation and the consequent widespread violations, of which everyone is aware.

On 26 February 2011, by way of a unanimous UNSC Resolution (1970) which invoked Chapter VII / Art 41 on the basis, inter-alia of «gross and systematic violation of human rights» and, noting that «widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity», the UNSC has:

There is a long list of crimes against humanity, embracing all the most serious crimes of violence, but the ICC only has jurisdiction when such crimes are committed «as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of that attack.»

Because of how widespread this attack was, it was picked up early.

AV - TEST found that it still caught 99.9 % of the «widespread and prevalent malware» in April 2017, along with 98.8 % percent of the zero - day attacks.

Sources haven't specified the exact magnitude of the vulnerability to avoid possibly interfering with government investigations, but they point out the attack is widespread and serious.