Sentences with phrase «seen to threaten»

In a video currently circulating on Twitter, an OKEx trader who reportedly lost 11 mln yuan ($ 1.75 mln) in the fiasco is seen to threaten CEO with committing suicide by drinking poison at the exchange's head office in Hong Kong.

And they are out to cover up the truth about climate change and anything thing else that is seen to threaten their very short - term profits.

The absence of an HR strategy was seen to threaten nurse recruitment and retention in the vicinity of NHS Direct sites.

Moreover, from St Alban to St Thomas More, the Church's martyrs have suffered because their beliefs were seen to threaten the political status quo.

Not exact matches

When it came to marketing, we often saw brands capitalizing on older adult's fear of life threatening situations, including a fall, loss of memory or motor skills, or other health related issues like a stroke or heart attack.

«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.

In what will be likely end up being seen as a masterclass in crisis management, Johnson took prompt action as a video of the incident went viral and threatened to engulf Starbucks in a major controversy.

President Donald Trump said earlier this week that if North Korea continues to threaten the United States, it will be «met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,» a statement that stopped a streaking stock market in its tracks.

The Saudi royal family sees its very survival threatened by Shiite elements in its oil - rich Eastern Province who have close ties to Iran; change the government in Tehran and that particular threat recedes.

Other studies by Kross suggest that, when people use their first names, they're more likely to see stressful situations (like public speaking) as challenging, rather than threatening.

«But it's hard to see Apple suing over jailbreaking unless its business model is threatened.»

The relationship has seen Trump threaten to impose tariffs on up to $ 150 billion of Chinese imports, a move that could trigger a trade war between the worlds two largest economies.

Various publishers have now threatened to simply block O2's customers from seeing their content at all, if it goes through with its proposal.

Trump has delivered an ultimatum to the European signatories to fix what he saw as the «terrible flaws» of the deal, threatening to refuse to extend U.S. sanctions relief on Iran.

BuzzFeed, one of the media companies threatening to pull out of the event, saw that as giving in to the harassment the panels were meant to discuss.

Just as President Obama's Affordable Care Act was seen as a boon to hospital and other health care stocks, President Trump's desire to roll back his predecessor's health reform law has threatened those same companies» share prices since he won the election.

African - Americans who had transitioned from female to male felt that, as men, they couldn't express frustration or annoyance at work without being sanctioned — they were seen as being aggressive, even threatening.

They see, day after day, that what they do makes a difference in the world, whether it's providing clothing to needy families or raising money to find a cure for a life - threatening disease.

Bitcoin partisans, from developers down to rank - and - file users, often seem to revel in the idea that they are threatening the control and profits of Wall Street institutions, who they see as rent - seeking fat cats.

President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country's economy further and lower import tariffs on products like cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse the increasingly bitter dispute with the United States and possibly open the way for the start of negotiations after both sides threatened tit - for - tat tariffs.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

His ability to both chastise his violent supporters while threatening immigrant criminals shows that Trump does not see these ideas as necessarily connected.

Plot: Based on the Hasbro board game, this action film sees a fleet of ships who stumble across an alien life force that threatens to destroy the planet.

Take that concept, and you can see why this is such threatening technology to such big industries.

The quest for reunification is disputed by some North Korean experts who see Kim's nuclear program as primarily a means of retaining power and don't think he would threaten or forcibly try to take over South Korea.

The pressure of the successor's curse can threaten to engulf a successor such as James, leading to what most people see as the stereotype of a family business successor — the entitled next generation member who lives a lavish lifestyle and squanders away the family wealth.

Urgent care centers — a $ 17 billion industry — usually let patients see doctors within an hour to get a necessary prescription or treatment for non-life threatening medical issues.

President Donald Trump has had an erratic start to 2018 — he's threatened nuclear war on Twitter, seen growing questions about his mental stability, and stirred controversy in disparaging immigrants from what he reportedly deems «shithole countries.»

Chair Yellen, with real growth over the recovery a little slower than we thought, output gaps and job market slack still on the scene, prices appearing to decelerate and wages / compensation revealing little in the way of threatening pressures, try as I might — and I repeat, I'm solidly in your camp — I don't see the rationale for tightening, even a little.

As the White House threatens to impose more tariffs, there are talks of a possible «coalition of the willing» to stand up to China over what Washington sees as unfair trade practices.

He was more blunt in an internal email to managers in late January, threatening to fire or demote country managers if they are «not on a clear path to positive long - term cash flow,» according to two people who have seen the email.

And is it too much to say that we are seeing the end of economic democracy and the emergence of a financial oligarchy — a self - serving class whose actions threaten to...

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

The relationship has seen Trump threaten to impose tariffs on up to $ 150 billion of Chinese imports, a move that could trigger a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Likewise, the increase can be seen as an acknowledgment among investors that corporations are failing to address the several global crises that threaten the fabric of society as we have experienced it thus far.

However, to initiate a position in gold or gold mining stocks is seen as potentially career - threatening at this juncture in part because the confidence game has persisted for so long and in part because adoption of precious - metals exposure is seen as potentially harmful to performance.

In February Alberta imposed — then withdrew — a ban on British Columbia wine.Alberta then followed up this threat with a second attack, one that saw Alberta threaten to cut off oil shipments to the West Coast — a move that would send gasoline prices sky - high in Vancouver.While Alberta has yet to stop oil shipments to B.C., but it's threat gained a bit more clout this week.

«This government's commitment to environmental protection is the most anemic approach I've seen in years and can only mean that our air, land and water will continue to be threatened by government neglect.»

We see this as only a slight risk, but not one to take lightly since a political crisis in Italy would have immediate economic and financial repercussions that could threaten the entire Eurozone.

When I see the city from my window — no, I don't feel how small I am — but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.»

That came shortly after Trump warned Pyongyang it would face «power, the likes of which this world has never seen before» if the renegade state continued to threaten the U.S.

Beijing has threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on US agricultural exports, and Trump told lawmakers that he saw the TPP as a way to help American farmers deal with the blow by opening up new markets for their crops.

It was a development that saw advertisers threaten to pull media spend from the social network — Mozilla actually did so — and high - profile figures in the tech community adding fuel to the fire with barbed #DeleteFacebook comments.

Under Section 8-2-113 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, employers are not permitted to threaten, harass, or otherwise prevent a worker from engaging in another occupation or business venture at any time they see fit.

U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs are seen as likely to continue their march toward activation.

If he was in some way really an embarrassment to that high party or had some dirt and wasn't considered stable with such info, one might see that the threatening letters could have been sent to the police by someone other than Doug.

As he calmly observes, «None of it was irreplaceable, but to cast it off would seem to threaten my essence, the shadow of myself that I could see on the floor, my name.»

Those persons are not able to see that morality has it's own rewards so they have to be bribed into good behavior or threatened into obedience.

When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory of the forces of evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.

5:20 - 21 and 1 John 4:1, to not quench the Spirit, to not despise prophecies, but to examine all extrabiblical revelations according to biblical criteria and test all persons, like the noble Bereans in Acts 17, who «examined the Scriptures daily to see if this were so,» the Calvinists / MacArthurites deleted my post of my testimony on SO4J's FB timeline — because it threatened them, and they knew I am telling the truth about an awesome dream of Jesus in 1973, as I emerged from a traumatic childhood with a mother who had worked the Ouija board when I was 11.