Sentences with phrase «potentially threatening»

«Realtors generally have their radar working and can identify a potentially threatening situation,» Baisden said.

«REALTORS ® generally have their radar working and can identify a potentially threatening situation.

The act of suppressing potentially threatening information and keeping it out of awareness requires the allocation and maintenance of cognitive resources (Ochsner & Gross, 2005), which can be disrupted and depleted under conditions of elevated cognitive load or intense emotion (Caldwell, Krug, Carter, & Minzenberg, in press; Edelstein & Gillath, 2008; Mikulincer, Dolev, & Shaver, 2004), resulting in the breakdown of attentional control and diminished capacity for self - reflection and mindful awareness.

There is typically no question of attraction between same - sex friends, (unless of course, one party is not forth - coming with their sexual preference) and so that diminishes some pressure in establishing a deep relationship that can be potentially threatening to a romantic partner.

As crucial processes to extracting information from the environment, attention mechanisms are considered highly relevant to attachment - related differences in the processing of emotional stimuli, especially potentially threatening stimuli (Fraley et al., 2000).

If you believe your friendship is potentially threatening to your relationship, but your partner has not yet become aware of it, full confession might not be the best answer.

Family members of an individual experiencing an addiction can develop high levels of stress, especially when daily routines are interrupted by that individual's unusual, uncharacteristic, or potentially threatening behavior.

In other words, as anxiety increases, fantasies are likely to contain less content that could be potentially threatening to one's self - esteem.

In some cases, people get insanely jealous or irrationally possessive of their partner because they perceive every casual social outing without them as potentially threatening to their relationship.

Not just because we are a Texas defensive driving course provider, but as a member of society that cares about its fellow people, we find it difficult to understand why so many drivers are willing to take the risk of texting or participating in other activities that are distracting and potentially threatening to their safety while behind the wheel.

The two workers had posted potentially threatening language and homophobic slurs against their bosses.

Fatigued driving in particular is a risk inherent to commercial transit, and to discourage this potentially threatening behavior, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requires that trucking companies and drivers adhere to strict regulations regarding hours of service.

Congressman Runyan has voted to increase offshore oil drilling (including in the mid-Atlantic, potentially threatening New Jersey's coast) while loosening safety standards and exempting oil companies from having to use available pollution control devices.

Viewing the growth of one energy source as a taking market share from another — or potentially threatening another's subsidy — is an example of zero - sum energy thinking that loses sight of the goal: providing safe, reliable energy so Americans can prosper and our economy can grow.

«For instance, elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, near the Tanzanian border in the south, have shown the ability to distinguish between the voices and scents of potentially threatening spear - carrying Maasai warriors with those of less threatening farming tribes,» Saigal writes.

Prof Peirs Forster (Univ of Leeds, UK; IPCC lead author) led a 2012 study of the probability of extreme drought across Asia, in which this was found to be liable to occur within 10 years on a scale potentially threatening global food security.

Inserted between the observer and a potentially threatening landscape of gestural paint, they serve to hold back the chaos.

We often take for granted that these are all new and therefore potentially threatening experiences for a puppy.

When a dog is confident in his owner, and when a dog is well - socialized, he can stay calm in potentially threatening situations in public and in the home.

There are many different challenges facing cats today, and part of our work at Cats Protection is to identify ways of achieving the best future for cats in a changing and potentially threatening world.

You're much bigger, with eyes set in front, and you probably tend to make what your rabbit perceives as sudden, potentially threatening movements.

As a guarding dog, part of a Komondor's job is to alert people when a potentially threatening situation exists.

The middle grade novel tells the story of Flory, a fairy who loses her wings in an accident and must fend for herself in a garden alongside bats, praying mantises and other potentially threatening creatures.

Training should cover areas including: reading body language; making a calm assessment of potentially threatening situations; reacting in the event of a physical attack; using reasonable force and powers to restrain, and dealing with unexpected confrontations and conflicts.

The Talent: Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, the duo behind another Sundance hit about infiltrating potentially threatening organizations Sound of My Voice, is back at it, with Marling co-writing with director Batmanglij and with a bigger budget to boot.

Cringing at the notion of being a rat, Whitey reconsiders after realizing he can use this allegiance strategically to protect his gang and eliminate potentially threatening other ones.

Whether we are entwined in an unhealthy or potentially threatening relationship or bystanders observing from afar, it is vital that we understand the warning signs of such unhealthy behaviors.

What you can do to remedy this potentially threatening situation is get some food ninjas on your team like I do.

Right now, planetary scientists are searching for hundreds of potentially threatening asteroids approaching Earth.

Dust devils dominate the weather patterns on the Red Planet, sculpting its surface and potentially threatening future robotic explorers or visiting astronauts.

To become a full - blown cancer (as opposed to a cell with a single, potentially threatening mutation — a genetic risk factor for becoming a cancer) requires the accumulation of five to ten mutations, and statistically that requires multiple rounds of cell division and selection.

These mice didn't seem to sense or fear potentially threatening situations and showed fairly drastic memory defects.»

By teaching your child how to avoid possible dangers and what to do if he finds himself in a potentially threatening situation, you will empower your child to know what to do in the event you are not there to protect him.

There had been some concerns of Liberty adding more races in America and F1's global expansion continuing, potentially threatening some European races.

Smith rightly notes that, with this approach, «different groups of Christians end up invested in different interpretive paradigms, learn to ignore certain potentially threatening leftover texts, and are persuaded that the remainder of leftover texts can be explained away on an ad hoc basis when they are «rightly understood,» read in proper context, or otherwise «correctly» interpreted.»

Prices could yet rise further as a cyclone begins to form off the coast of Western Australia, potentially threatening supply from the iron - rich pilbara region

As noted yesterday, the Justice Department is investigating Huawei for breaking Iran sanctions, potentially threatening the Chinese phone - maker's ongoing access to Android.

The opportunities, much of which is currently focused on post-trade processing, could compete with, and potentially threaten, financial incumbents.

Similarly, the power of Google's search algorithm to surreptitiously shift voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 - 80 percent is highly troubling — and not only because it could potentially threaten the basic principles of democracy.

On Premier's News Hour, he said: «It's essential that the threat that's posed by ISIS is eliminated, otherwise, what we'll see is that Iraq and Syria will become a safe haven in which ISIS will then launch major terrorist operations that could potentially threaten British, European and American security.

HELLP syndrome is a condition related to preeclampsia, which can potentially threaten the health of both mother and baby.

Rough sex can potentially threaten the life of an unborn baby.

Sleep - deprived adults, as in parents who are up at all hours of the night tending to sleepless babies, are much worse at deciphering emotional cues and being emotionally expressive themselves — problems that could potentially threaten the parent - child attachment bond.

«With more than 75 % of construction products exports being absorbed into the European market, recent forecasts from the OECD indicating a slowdown in key Eurozone countries, such as Germany and France, potentially threaten prospects of further growth for product manufacturers.

The group says more powers given to various state agencies would potentially threaten NYRA's budget and operations.

The resolution adopted by lawmakers says the pipeline «threatens important surface water resources,» «potentially threatens the health, safety and welfare of the community, could decrease the values of homes located along its route and in surrounding neighborhoods and could negatively impact future development in Ulster County.»

Such advances are urgently needed in light of the > 10,000 rare, poorly known, and potentially threatened tree species in the Amazon.

In the long term, screwing with the base of the food chain and the oxygen cycle potentially threatens the entire dynamic of life on Earth.

While both the gibbons and their habitat are now protected under Chinese law, they are still potentially threatened by human disturbance, and by a lack of connected forest habitat to allow expansion of their population.

Not developing these technologies potentially threatens things that many people hold to be extremely valuable.