Sentences with phrase «often hijacked»

Teenagers are often hijacked by their emotions.

OKM is often hijacked by politics within the organization, resulting in either: (a) a massive change management challenge where the lawyers actively resist or ignore OKM efforts, or (b) OKM that represents a compromise in quality due to «folk wisdom» input from powerful players in the organization (e.g., poorly written contract clauses reflecting an influential equity partner's preferences, even if they're rife with legalese and make negotiations more difficult).

It also becomes clear here that science is often hijacked as a vehicle for national / imperial pride, and becomes a battleground for competing states.

One miRNA can target multiple genes, but their expression is often hijacked by cancer cells and disrupts multiple cancer - causing or tumor - suppressing pathways,» says Shuk - Mei Ho, PhD, director of the CCC and Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Environmental Health and professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

These genes code for proteins involved in transporting small containers called vesicles throughout the healthy cell, but these proteins are often hijacked by viruses in order to move the virus through the cell.

«Movies about colorful characters, be they saints or sinners, are often hijacked by their subject, so it's unsurprising that Mr. Stone, with his bespoke suits and Nixon tattoo, owns this one from the get - go.»

Communists often hijack such movements to use them for their purpose, and hide their much less noble intentions behind them.

They take up the whole screen, often hijacking your phone for an advertisement you didn't ask for.

Not exact matches

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

It can be a confusing platform to use, tweets are often dashed off from smartphones, hashtags can be hijacked and humor doesn't always translate in 140 characters or less — all of which can lead to fiascos like these.

As IIS often highlighted it, the UN consensus - building exercise of the 1990s, which set the framework in which global governance operates today, hijacked humanity's universal aspirations at the end of the Cold War.

To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

I am often rubbed the wrong way when some members hijack a meeting and stray into proselytizing instead of sharing their experience, strength and hope.

He was reported to be heading to Old Trafford but after Manchester United hijacked the transfer of Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea the EPL champions have apparently blocked the transfer, so maybe Wenger should try to excploit this strife between the clubs and put in a bid for Matic to add the strength, steel and ability that we have so often lacked in the middle.

Campaigns often have better luck hijacking an existing story rather than trying to uncover the un-covered, so think about ways you can hang your coat on an existing news peg.

But cancer biologists and immunologists have begun to realize that the progression from diseased tissue to full - blown invasive cancer often requires cells that normally participate in healing cuts and scrapes to be diverted to the environs of the premalignant tissue, where they are hijacked to become co-conspirators that aid and abet carcinogenesis.

But often tumors hijack them and convert them into what are known as «tumor - associated macrophages,» or TAMs for short.

By studying recurrent somatic SVs affecting intergenic regions, we recently demonstrated that «enhancer hijacking» — the juxtaposition of active enhancers near proto - oncogenes, and often across topological association domain (TAD) boundaries — is a frequent oncogene activation mechanism in solid tumors (Figure 2).

Immune cells initially inhibit tumor growth; however, tumor cells often suppress not only the tumor - inhibitory function of immune cells, but they can also hijack immune cells to promote tumor growth.

What's more, the genes mutated in diseases like cancer or heart disease are often the same genes that are hijacked by invading viruses.

Often it's a pop standard that she's adopted for her own use, but one never has the sense that she's hijacking the intrinsic emotionality of the music to compensate for an absence in the filmmaking — rather, it's as though the rest of the film has been built out from the kernel of the song.

My film career has often brought me back to Soho for meetings, viewings and castings for, for example, Aces High (working again with Malcolm McDowell) and North Sea Hijack, in which I was thrilled to shoot scenes alongside Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins and James Mason.

Anyway, Michelle Yeoh plays a cop (named Michelle of course, one of my favorite little things about Hong Kong cinema is how often character names are simply the actors» names: it helps establish stars and no one has to waste precious screenwriting minutes coming up with fake names for the characters) who with the help of an air marshal (Michael Wong) and a retiring Japanese cop (Hiroyuki Sanada, who has been in a lot of things, including Lost, Sunshine, Speed Racer and the latest Wolverine movie) foil an airplane hijacking.

Part of the reason emotions have been able to hijack the testing process for so long is that feelings are often not taken seriously.

But what bothers me more are those authors, and they are too often self - published authors (and that gives all of us who do some indie publishing a bad name), who go on the attack on discussion boards or who think it is their right to take over a discussion thread by hijacking it to talk about our book.

Basically, as long as an author didn't get too annoying with a promotion thread (ie, didn't do one more than once a week or so), the thread wasn't reported as spam too often or an author didn't hijack another person's thread just to do drive - by promotions, there was no real problem.

Those examples can be annoying — and often entertaining, especially if you like flame wars — they pale in contrast to the fallout that can happen when enough authors hijack threads to promote their own work.

While similar, the phantom scam is often used on vacation rental while the hijack scam is the more involved of the two.

I have been going daily to feed them, but last week, I was hijacked at gunpoint at the property as I was locking the gate (took my car, laptop, phone, wallet etc etc) so I am reluctant to go there as often as I was.

Be warned, though, choosing to hijack a car with a person inside may result in said person deciding to phone the cops, at which point you can either high - tail it or get out and point your gun in the person's face to make them hang - up, although pulling a gun in this manner can often cause another bystander to ring the cops as well.

Other artists hijack banal domestic objects for their own (often feminist) ends - Mona Hatoum's series of menacing kitchen appliances springs to mind - but Lucas, now 41, does it with more venom and energy, more dirty - mouthed humour, more gall.

Because most meteorologists are employed directly or indirectly by governement and academia, they are all to often intimidated with retaliation and denied the right to exercise free speech to combat the hijacking fof the profession, their professional associations, and the science by a minority of political activists inside and outside their profession, who have promoted their likeminded collaborationists into positions of leadership.

All too often social media made its own mind up and hijacked the campaign itself for humorous or other reasons — #McDstories anyone?

Often such hijacking is accomplished through malware delivered on a victim's system via phishing emails and compromised websites.

«The main benefit of bitcoin - the only segment of society where it's used for something other than speculation - is crime,» he said, noting that when cybercriminals hijack computer systems they very often demand their ransom in bitcoin.

As reports emerge, today's attack paints a picture of businesses and governments around the world held hostage by a second major wave of ransomware, a kind of software that hijacks computerized systems and demands payment, often in bitcoin, to unlock them.

Days or sometimes weeks before the settlement, the scammer poses as the title or escrow agent whose email accounts they've hijacked and instructs the home buyer to wire the funds needed to close — often hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes far more — to the criminals» own bank accounts, not the title or escrow company's legitimate accounts.