Sentences with phrase «pose less threat»

There is an inexplicable animal: a clothed monkey, posing less threat than Tyson's tiger did.

Not exact matches

«Expanding the focus of law enforcement beyond people who are real threats would make all Americans less safe by diverting resources, while millions of undocumented folks who don't pose a threat will live in fear of deportation.»

Someone who commits an armed robbery at 25 generally poses less of a threat by 35 of 40.

It suggests that as China demonstrates a stronger leading role in global security issues and its capacity to deal with security issues grows, expanded trade with China may be seen as posing less of a threat to Canadians.

He argues that terrorists in our age threaten the destruction of democracy itself, with all the values that democracy embodies and protects, and that to combat this threat effectively, democracies may need to do acts that are evil in themselves but constitute a lesser evil than that posed by terrorism.

Thus The Lesser Evil is, throughout, a defense of what Ignatieff understands to be the strength and superiority of democracy, both in itself as a form of government and also as a basis for dealing effectively with the threat of destruction posed by terrorism.

GSP fight is less dangerous but poses some decent threats to Khabib style.

Even though Southampton have lost consecutive games with an identical 3 - 0 scoreline (to West Ham and Newcastle no less), I'm still wary of the threat they pose.

While a resurgent Sinn Fein is viewed as posing a significant threat to Labour on the left of the political spectum, the previous post relating to Sinn Fein target constituencies did not identify any constituency as being one where a Labour seat would be lost on the basis of a 2 %, or less, swing to Sinn Fein, whereas three Sinn Fein seats would be lost to Labour if there was a 2 %, or less, swing from Sinn Fein to Labour in the Cork East, Dublin Central and Sligo - North Leitrim constituencies.

It's no coincidence the non-supporters are mostly on the younger side of the spectrum — the kind of people who owe less to Silver and see more of a future without him — and from districts competitive enough where local newspaper editorials about their silence posed a real threat.

Consumer drones pose far less of a threat to high - flying commercial aircraft; a jet airliner is in drone airspace only during takeoff and landing, and is very fast - moving target for a quadcopter.

Since 2014, when the U.N. Environment Programme created the U.N. Environment Inquiry to study ways to make the global financial system less reliant on fossil fuels, central banks, regulators and the private sector have noted more and more that climate change poses an economic threat to the world.

Forest fires and heatwaves will increase, crops and vineyards will become less productive, fishery production will decrease and rising seas pose a growing threat.

Although Bd poses less of a threat to frogs in the lowlands, this study suggests that species at lower elevations are more susceptible to climate changes, putting them at risk if they are unable to adapt or move to higher altitudes.

Industrial farms growing a single Cavendish cultivar are at a high risk of Foc - TR4 infestation, but the fungus poses less of a threat to the bulk of the bananas that provide a staple for some 400 million people worldwide.

ATLANTA — If the West Nile virus spreads to Central and South America — as many researchers think it will — it may pose less of a health threat than in the United States.

Habitat loss and pollution pose the greatest extinction risk for currently threatened amphibians, while the deadly chytrid fungus remains a lesser but still potent threat.

Back in the 70's, when the nation was threatened by the rapidly increasing number of deaths from cardiovascular diseases and science had just uncovered that a diet high in saturated fats and cholesterol poses a serious threat for cardiovascular health, health officials issued dietary advice that entailed consuming less fat.

Well, researchers from Rutgers University have a theory: When you're in a happy relationship, you subconsciously think that people who pose a threat to your bond are less attractive than they really are.

If bombing 30 people from 10,000 feet above is a risk - free endeavor for the bombers, then it matters less to them, living half a world's away, whether or not those people pose an authentic threat to their domain.

Dare I say that if anyone poses a threat to this category's dominant frontrunner, it might be Gyllenhaal, who fully fleshed out what could easily have been a less complex role.

Nor does the lesson discuss the difference between a fundamental principle and a personal desire or between legal protest, civil disobedience, and purely criminal activity, much less the threats that each poses to a democratic society.

Though less in the public eye than K - 12 education, our colleges and universities are also posing big threats to the education profession.

If you're ready to get a little more juice out of your savings than the interest rate you're getting at the bank, look at the alternatives that pose less of a threat to your bottom line.

«Because western society's orientations toward wildlife is becoming more moralistic and less utilitarian,» explain the authors of a study recently published online in PLoS ONE, «conservation biologists must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address the threats posed by feral cats rather than assuming wholesale removal of feral cats through euthanasia is a universally viable solution.»

Proponents of TNR have argued that colony - fed sterilized cats pose little threat to native species in the adjacent wildland interior and that because sterilized cats roam less than reproductively intact cats but retain their territorial behavior (Hawkins et al. 2004; Zaunbrecher and Smith 1993), they should prevent immigration of new cats (i.e., the vacuum effect — Mahlow and Slater 1996; Neville and Remfry 1984), thereby eventually leading to population decline due to attrition.

Cats, and to a lesser degree dogs, can pose a serious threat to your native wildlife.

Milk chocolate poses far less threat with only 44 - 58 mg per ounce.

It burns 25 % less fuel (with corresponding reduction in emissions) and its carpet and blankets are made with nylon and plastic recycled from bottles and salvaged fishing nets, which pose a threat to marine life.

In Super Mario 64 DS, they were redesigned to resemble the usual appearance of Cheep Cheeps, and they pose even less of a threat to the heroes, though they still cause the heroes to lose health if they run into them.

Located in the corners of the planting beds, behind less noxious plants, it can be admired easily but does not pose a threat to the unwary, bare - legged visitor.

Manhattan dealer Per Skarstedt poses less of a threat as he specialises in works from the Eighties by artists he does not represent.

Defense of the real science should be no less vigorous than has been the defense of the faith by Christians who recognized the threat posed by the fictional work, «The DaVinci Code.»

If the vertical wind shear over the Atlantic MDR is expected to increase, wouldn't we expect hurricanes to be steered farther to the east, climatologically, and therefore to pose less of a threat to most of the eastern seaboard?

Newcomers to Florida generally aren't aware that the alligator probably poses less of a threat than other, less obtrusive organisms, he says.

The fact that a majority of Americans don't believe global warming will pose a threat to them in their lifetimes makes it perhaps less surprising to find that significantly less than a majority of Americans say they worry a great deal about it.

Even with this increase over the last 11 years, the fact remains that still less than a majority of Americans, at this point, believe global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetimes.

Unfortunately the German public has its priorities backwards, phasing - out the energy source which poses less of a threat to both public health and the global climate.

The 1.2 billion people who live in India use far less electricity than do Americans, but the nation's growing economy and its dependance upon coal pose major global warming threats.

«Downplaying the threats drilling poses to our climate, communities, and environment — as Shell continues to do — does not in reality make the threats any less serious.

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California: «California will get the worst of all possible worlds — more flooding in the winter, less available water in the summer.»

But it is land degradation that now poses the greatest environmental threat, affecting no less than 32 African nations, along with the loss of biodiversity occurring in 34 countries.

Less than 5 % of plastic bags are ever recycled, and those that aren't all too often make their way into our oceans where they pose a threat to wildlife and never fully decompose.

Somehow in the past year or so, however, the threat posed by snow globes has apparently dropped from Code Red to something much less scary — to the point that the TSA has actually changed its policy and given snow globes the «OK» to be checked in baggage.

Second, increases in the number of people working flexibly could pose a perceived threat to those who work full time, or have less experience.

However, and this should be emphasized, looking at the operation as a whole, that appears not to have happened, as the soldiers acted continually to distinguish the types of threat posed in different situations, and they even switched back and forth between lethal and less - lethal weapons to address those threats.

Inclement weather can definitely make roads less safe, which poses a threat no matter how experienced the driver may be.

While individuals like Mark Carney — a Canadian economist who serves as Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the G20's Financial Stability Board — claim that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have «failed» and thus pose no threat to traditional financial institutions, others less invested in the status quo aren't so sure.

By its very nature, Airbnb poses less of a threat to full - service amenity - rich hotels than it does to a bed - and - breakfasts, for instance.