Sentences with phrase «people feel threatened»

Some researchers believe anxiety is synonymous with fear, occurring in varying degrees and in situations where people feel threatened by some danger.

But when these authoritative figures, who are supposed to make people feel safe, make people feel threatened instead, a line must be drawn.

This is where people feel threatened by AI: they are afraid of losing jobs to Artificial Intelligence.

«Even today with Harvey Weinstein we see that part of the business where people feel threatened with his sending out Mossad agents,» continued Apatow, «It was a difficult part of (Garry's) life.»

«I don't understand why some people feel threatened that allowing me to have that in any way diminishes what a heterosexual couple has.»

people feel threatened and they side with a more radical defender for their country (same as Farage, Erdoğan, Trump, Le Pen).

Because, by attacking all religion you are attacking me and of course that is going to make people feel threatened.

The problem is that many religious people feel it threatens their belief systems and so deny it.

I don't understand why some people feel threaten by a woman becoming a bishop.

Last week, BBC Newsnight reported on several other cases where people felt threatened, harassed or bullied by him.

It can make a person feel threatened, exploited, coerced, humiliated, upset, sexualised or discriminated against.

While there are wide range of relational strategies that emerge in relationships, there are two main types of strategies for gaining equilibrium when a person feels threatened.

Likewise, when a person feels threatened, the attachment system activates, evoking attachment behaviors.

Not exact matches

«We just want to create a community where people feel at ease, where they do not feel threatened, and we just don't see guns fitting into that equation,» Ms. Herd said.

Research shows that people who feel lonely can feel chronically threatened and are at an increased risk of death.

But if enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

They feel like you're trying to make yourself into the big person on the top of the hill, and they're threatened by the possibility they don't have any power or authority.

When you ask people to step outside of their normal boundaries, they can feel unsure or even threatened.

But remember, the goal is to have people on your team be able to argue without feeling threatened.

In another tweet, she clarifies: «Slut and whore are words used by people who feel threatened.

What's more, people who deny evolutionary theory are more prone to reject other scientific theories that they feel threaten their belief systems.

And yes, I venture to say the straight people usually make the gays feel uneasy, because they're threatened for some reason.

Many people feel islamism is a threat and many who feel threatened respond aggressively.

Why do muslims feels so threatened by people leaving their system of beliefs that they would seek to kill the one who does so?

You know, not feel threatened, not get defensive, but instead listen respectfully and truly consider what the person is saying to them.

Why do you feel so threatened by a religious faith being a majority when people without faith are crazy as hell too?

People only react like that when they feel threatened.

Not surprisingly, some of the diocesan Catholics felt threatened by the sudden influx of 72 ex Anglicans and there was some disappointment, too, for some of the Ordinariate Catholics because there were people from St Barnabas who had been going to come, but did not.

The only reason I would do it is to save myself or another person if I felt threatened.

I thought it somewhat ironic that when people at his job threatened his employment, it was «persecution» and «proof» that he was doing the right thing, but he felt no qualms whatsoever for trying to cause me to lose my job.

Here are some of the factors which threaten selfesteem in the classroom: (a) Persistent criticism and shaming — Severe criticism makes the child feel rejected as a person; the need for recognition is so intense that a child will seek it in unconstructive ways if he can not get it by achievement.

If media violence, especially when that violence is in its nature sexual, in fact does threaten the quality of American life, then how do the creative and managerial people in television feel about the use of violence in their productions?

Most mature people do nt attack when they feel threatened.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who are usually deemed «mature» who do attack when they feel threatened.

People should respect each others for what they believes in and no one should feel threatened by any religious symbols.

I think the «violence» we experience is do to the fact that religious people do have big questions and doubts, they feel threatened.

Tragically, the only people in John 10 - 11 who want to kill are the religious people who feel threatened by what Jesus is teaching about God: that God is not a God of death and war, but is a God of life and peace.

If the purpose between two married people is just to be in a good relationship, it will feel like a failure more often than not because disagreements will inevitably seep in and conflict will threaten the connection.

People like Amistavia only feel «strong» by bullying the «weak»... True strength of mind does not feel threatened by alternative or opposing world views.

stage); projection (onto others of the feelings or impulses eliciting anxiety); rationalization (giving oneself and others reasonable excuses for unreasonable behavior); denial (of threatening aspects of reality); introjection (seeking protection by identifying internally with a feared person or idea); reaction formation (denying threatening impulse by going to the other extreme in one's behavior — e.g., denying repressed rage by behaving in super «loving» ways); intellectualizing (avoiding threatening feelings by chronic «head - tripping»).

A person feels free, even where penalties are threatened, if he has no desire to engage in the proscribed behavior.

i think the people behind the national day of prayer are probably a bunch of nutjobs, but never once in the history of this event have i felt threatened, annoyed or insulted by it.

Capitalism has shown its resilience before; and if India's ruling class feels seriously threatened by peoples» movements or if the BJP comes to power, there is real possibility of democratic freedoms being restricted.

It is, for me, the hardest part of being a writer and blogger, particularly one who focuses on both faith and parenting — two areas where people tend to put all of their faith in the «right» answer and to feel threatened by those who answer important questions differently than they do.

Therefore, we need not feel threatened by reductionist accounts of the human person nor by the paradoxes of identity and memory that dog philosophical doctrines of immortality.

The point is that most people did not feel personally threatened by large auto - death statistics and so there was little inducement to slow down; but when people paid drastically higher prices for gas, and were threatened with having no gas, they took the threats to their money and mobility seriously, and slowed down.

It's a program organized by people who feel the American way of life is threatened by Islam — in particular, Sharia, or Islamic law.

And if so, then pastors should not feel upset or threatened if people go to other churches to receive different types of spiritual food.

I relate to feeling done with church and being described as creative by an adviser, and that because I am creative that people who are comfortable with their systems and structures would find that threatening.