Sentences with phrase «threat than a promise»

Ours is a time when the future looms for most as more of a threat than a promise.

The title card «Black Panther will return in Avengers: Infinity War» sounds more like a threat than a promise.

With «Divergent,» it feels more like a threat than a promise: You thought we were done here?

Today's article in The Scotsman promising the beleaguered citizens of Edinburgh «the tram by Christmas» might be seen by some more of a threat than a promise.

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Totally happy and fulfilledm - much happier than when I was younger and believed in the threats and promises of religion.

I'll bet that there is more evidence that Mom's saying, «Keep making that ugly face and it's going to freeze that way» ever happened than there is for your alleged threats and promises from this imaginary god.

If there was, than real scientists would be refining and honing that method and religionists would not need to manipulate others into belief with promises of salvation, threats of hell, and tsk - tsking of those who don't show respect for the insanity.

If you need the promise of heaven and the threat of hell to be a good person, than you are NOT a good person.

By the same token, David Cameron could end up losing votes by promising a referendum on the EU, even though most voters want one, if he appears to be buffeted by events and mesmerised by the threat from UKIP, rather than taking a lead.

Aside from «Open World Survival Horror», few genres have been done to death more than the rogue - like, with randomly created worlds replacing crafted levels and promising greater length to a game with player death a constant threat.

Let's hope the single issue of CO2 doesn't obscure the very serious threats that do more than just promise to rise coastal sea levels, which by the way, would be changing as they have throughout the long history of the planet anyway; a presumed future history that our technological civilization hopes to experience for some time to come.

Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China — a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «dangerous» climate change.

More than 30 years ago, Congress identified what it said was a grave threat to the American promise of equal justice for all: Federal judges were giving wildly different punishments to defendants who had committed the same crimes.