Sentences with phrase «seriously threatening»

Are these technical glitches and criminal hackers seriously threatening security in the finance sector?

The problem for the scientific community as a whole is that this polarization, despite its imbalance towards the establishment, is seriously threatening the public's perception of the professionalism of scientists in general.

Professor Garth Paltridge, formerly a chief scientist with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Atmospheric Research, says that the behavior of certain members of the climate science establishment is «seriously threatening the public's perception of the professionalism of scientists in general.

US ghg emissions are harming and seriously threatening hundreds of millions of people outside the United States.

The bad news is the overabundance of Obama's scandals: in combination, they are seriously threatening his presidency, which provides ever greater incentive to destroy critics and political opponents.

That ultimately kept the truck from seriously threatening the F - 150, Ram or Silverado.

As such, the unions and their acolytes are desperately clinging to antiquated policies that are failing our children and seriously threatening our country's future.

Drug - resistant malaria parasites have spread to critical border regions of South - east Asia, seriously threatening global malaria control and elimination programmes, according to a study published in the «New England Journal of Medicine».

But seriously threatening that success is oil drilling by Shell in the Beaufort Sea, which the Obama administration approved to move forward in summer 2012 despite a lawsuit by the Center and allies.

In response, the prime minister is now seriously threatening to suspend the Lords or even flood it with new Conservative peers to swell the ranks of this already bloated and over-manned chamber.

«Sincerely, the activities of those Badoo boys must be stopped; this massacre must not be allowed to go on unabated; it is seriously threatening the serenity of that town,» the source had disclosed.

The invasions most seriously threatening Christianity were by Moslems.

But during regional elections in mid-March, the socialist opposition won 21 of 22 regions, a sharp rebuff that seriously threatens his ability to deliver on the promises that brought him to power.

«The bank does not intervene [with the dollar], except in exceptional circumstances, such as if there were signs of a serious near - term market breakdown or if extreme currency movements seriously threatened [the economy],» he said.

Industry watchers doubt the Star «s left - sided market is seriously threatened by the changing landscape.

Rollei was seriously threatened by stiff Japanese competition and a labor shortage at home that made production costly.

The Republicans have a very good shot at taking over Congress, which would seriously threaten the president's agenda and would likely prolong gridlock in Washington through the next election cycle.

At the beginning of these comments we raised a question about the relevance of Paul's admonitions to people who are being seriously threatened and hurt by the vicissitudes of life.

All these movements grew but never seriously threatened the position of the Christian Churches.

... the survivor of any death immersion feels his relationship to the ultimate forces of death and rebirth to be seriously threatened.

When his life and ranch were seriously threatened, he responded by placing a gun and a Bible side by side, saying he chose the latter.

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.

As we saw in the last chapter, Christianity was not only seriously threatened, it was as well losing ground geographically and apparently was waning in inner vitality.

The long - term supply and availability of high quality coffee is seriously threatened and there is a lack of research to identify appropriate and innovative ways of increasing cup quality and volumes of quality coffee.

It seriously threatens jobs and we can't continue to operate if retailers continue to kill our brands without reason.»

Our past reliance upon «the tradition of the ancient Greeks» and other similar archaic practices is one of the main reasons why our position as the world's top track - and - field power today is seriously threatened.

The Clippers made a few small charges over the course of the game, but they were never able to get enough key stops to seriously threaten Golden State.

They look at our team (although it's quite a good one) and know that the make up of that team plus, the type of football that we aspire to is not at a level whereby it can seriously threaten the title hopes of other more balanced teams.

It never felt like Penn State was seriously threatened, even though Washington was twice able to get to within seven points after falling behind 28 - 7.

Wisconsin dominated Minnesota all game long and the Gophers never seriously threatened offensively.

The Bulldogs did a great job defensively and didn't allow the Golden Eagles to seriously threaten their goal.

In what could be his last game as a Chelsea player, the goalkeeper was called into action several times but was never seriously threatened until the 88th minute when he made a top - class stop.

So I do wonder if lofty (though completely laudable) principles articulated from the Oval Office will have any real impact when industry's bottom line is seriously threatened.

My teaching memoir, A Gift of Wonder shows professional freedom in teaching in an era where teacher autonomy is seriously threatened.

These taxes seriously threaten the middle class who get nothing from them except it gest their employers to reconsider staying in NY every year.

Conservative and Liberal Democrat backbenchers cut the coalition's majority to 27 but never seriously threatened a defeat in the clash over rules controlling home extensions.

Erie County Legislature (Legislature) finds and determines that the health of the public is seriously threatened by exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).

If I were an up and coming young Labour ladder climber with a seriously threatened career path chatting with a battered old war horse looking at the prospect of enforced retirement to the long grass I would be discussing concepts way beyond Brown's inevitable departure.

The PDP regretted that although Magnus Abe was known for «unsavory and disrespectful attacks on the government and people of Rivers State, he has continued to make statements which are not only provocative and incisive, but seriously threaten the peace and security of the State.»

Regrettably, this same government in this very month of August is authorizing the cutting down of the same rosewood trees in the part of the country that has livelihoods seriously threatened by the harsh impacts of climate change.

But, as with any systemic change, reform would seriously threaten the interests of those who currently benefit from the existing arrangements.

«We are, however, advocating serious consideration of moving populations from areas where species are seriously threatened by climate change to other parts of the same broad biogeographic region,» meaning in nearby locations sharing similar ecosystems.

We learned that quite a few of the species are seriously threatened by habitat loss and over-hunting, but none are yet extinct.»

Her research focuses on the development of transgenic maize genotypes resistant to Maize streak virus (MSV), which causes maize streak disease — a disease that seriously threatens sustainable food production throughout Africa.

The most recent report on reef health — Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2008 — found that 19 % of coral reefs were already lost, 15 % were seriously threatened within a decade or two, and 20 % could be lost in 20 to 40 years.

«Liberia's national existence is «seriously threatened» by the deadly Ebola virus that is «spreading like wild fire and devouring everything in its path,» the country's national defense minister told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.

Background: As the prevalence of artemisinin - resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria increases in the Greater Mekong subregion, emerging resistance to partner drugs in artemisinin combination therapies seriously threatens global efforts to treat and eliminate this disease.

Nature shuts down the production of hormones so that these women don't become pregnant, which could seriously threaten the lives of both mother and baby.

In another family tale, when my Mother - in - Law, Mary, was only 5 years old, her life was seriously threatened from a severe case of double pneumonia.

The artistic meditativeness to Refn's approach to this film may be a little more realized than it was with 1996's «Pusher», but nevertheless, this effort is even more of the very thing that ruined Refn's breakout, and even seriously threatened Refn's decent follow - up, «Bleeder», having an experimental, almost abstract, and perhaps even intentionally incoherent structure that is not only questionable, but frustrates with pretentiousness, or at least too much ambition.