Sentences with phrase «threat than terrorism»

We recently reviewed the top hazards for business travelers that indicates that petty street crime is a far more likely threat than terrorism.

In February President Obama said, a little carelessly, that climate change is a greater threat than terrorism.

King once remarked that «climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism», that it is the «biggest challenge our civilisation has ever had», and that foreign spies and US energy interests were behind attempts to undermine public confidence in climate science and the attempt to build an international agreement at Copenhagen.

Warming devotee and former Chairman of Shell, Lord [Ron] Oxburgh, reportedly agrees with another rash statement of King's, that climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism.

No political will to have pandemic preparedness be a campaign issue, yet a pandemic year from H5N1 is a bigger threat than terrorism.

While he was U.K. science adviser, for example, David King famously said climate change was a greater global threat than terrorism.

Not exact matches

For more than a decade, the threat of terrorism has contributed to rising oil prices, global instability and insecurity in major financial centres — in other words, it's been a major drag on business.

While regional differences reveal a mix of threats that concern CEOs, they share a common increasing worry about broader societal developments — geopolitical uncertainty, terrorism, and climate change — rather than direct business risks such as changing consumer behaviour or new market entrants.

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

Better to be kept in line by teachings than threats of violence, prison, terrorism, death.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

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.

New York's other ex-mayor, Mike Bloomberg, believes Americans are facing an «epidemic of dishonesty» in the nation's capital that's a bigger threat to democracy than terrorism or Communism.

So I can describe Russia as a «crypto - fascist» state (which it is) or declare that climate change is indeed a greater threat to the future of humanity than international terrorism (which it is) without getting my broadcasting head chopped off.

The menace of terrorism once considered to be a distant threat, appears to be closer than it was first believed.

Amid fears about global warming, terrorism, disease, and nuclear proliferation, the threat of rocks from space may seem more the province of bad Hollywood movies than front - page news.

The Chief Medical Officer of Britain even warned that the ever - growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is becoming a bigger threat to world peace than terrorism.

Nigeria, one of the most populous countries in the African region, faces the threat of terrorism now more than ever.

This simply is not being enforced at all and in my opinion presents more danger to the future of Bali tourism than the threat of terrorism ever will.

«No one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive «The government's chief scientific officer, Sir David King, later declared that climate change was «more serious even than the threat of terrorism» in terms of the number of lives that could be lost.

Mr Blair has been seen as a strong supporter of the Kyoto protocol and was thought to be keen on working towards finding a successor to the treaty... As part of his support, the prime minister made tackling climate change his priority for the presidency of G8 and the EU this year, describing it as a greater threat to the world than terrorism.

President Obama has said that climate change represents a greater threat to America's national security than does terrorism.

«In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.»

Speaking at an International Science meeting in February 2004, he said «In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today — more serious even than the threat of terrorism.»

Dr. Qamar - Uz - Zaman Chaudhry, former director general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, calls climate change a threat greater than terrorism for its ability to have a widespread effect on a country, even influencing economic policies and other plans for the future.

«In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism,» Sir David says.

(Schwartz's 2003 report for the Pentagon said plainly that global warming would be a greater threat to national security in the 21st century than terrorism).

Travis Fisher, a Trump political appointee in the Department of Energy, wrote a 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research that called clean energy policies «the single greatest emerging threat» to the nation's electric power grid, and a greater threat to electric reliability than cyber attacks, terrorism or extreme weather.

Climate change is not a greater threat, but false promotion of climate change as a threat is greater than international terrorism.

For Europeans risk belief issues like climate change, perhaps even the threats which global financial movements pose for individual countries, are much more important than the threat of terrorism.

She's just throwing out some baseless generalities, you know, that all the troops that are returning really want us to take care of this problem because they know more than terrorism, more than threats from other nations --