Sentences with phrase «threatened by conflict»

Rather, the movie presents a slice of lives in transition in a city where daily existence is always threatened by conflict.

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«Regardless of the origin of a conflict, a country may involve the entire world simply by threatening to spread the war with an ICBM.»

But if you're responding to conflict in a negative way, or feeling threatened by a peer or subordinate, or letting life pressures from outside the job leach into the workplace, counselling in the short term can offer some insight into why you're acting the way you are.

As part of its turn rightward, the NRA has developed its own media profile led by spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who stars in videos that present an ominous view of an America engulfed in a barely contained conflict that threatens to explode into violence.

On April 8, Kinder Morgan Canada held an unusual Sunday conference call to announce an immediate halt to all non-essential spending on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, threatening to pull the plug on the project completely unless the escalating political conflicts over the pipeline could be resolved by May 31.

An unusual move by a US regulator threatens to widen a conflict over potential manipu - lation of Hovnanian default swaps by Blackstone's credit arm GSO.

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The most typical conflict is the wife who rejects or wants to reject traditional roles and a husband who feels deeply threatened by these changes in her.

Do you, in chairing a meeting, find yourself pouring oil instead of helping to clarify conflicts because you yourself feel threatened by the very fact of the conflicts?

Their union has always been threatened by discord, a spirit of domination, infidelity, jealousy, and conflicts that can escalate into hatred and separation» (no. 1606).

The conflict which he led broke out over a foreign baal, supported by royal authority and symbolizing the entire system of alien customs, selfish luxury, and iniquitous commercialism that threatened not alone Yahweh's worship but Yahweh's social justice.

Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.

Small wonder that this impoverished people feel disenfranchised by Yemen's national dialogue, a gathering of political leaders to draft a new constitution and address the conflicts that threaten to tear the country apart.

What is debatable is if international peace or stability is currently being threatened by the ongoing conflict.

The Deepening Democracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefully.»

The regional IGAD bloc, mediating the conflict, has threatened sanctions if they fail to abide by the agreement.

Identifying Conflicts of Interest I realize that it's important to present both sides of an issue, but Dr. Wulf Utian and his North American Menopause Society (NAMS) are funded by the drug industry, and in particular by those whose bottom line is most threatened by bioidentical hormones.

Yet, by playing a Clooney — Damon — Pitt game, Iñárritu uses the western genre for a simplified critique of American temperament: Glass always physically conflicts with threatening forces, including bedrock, redneck conservatism.

What does this mean for international support of the education of children living in fragile and conflict - affected settings, which are by definition settings where governance is threatened?

Similar in kind to the makeshift soccer balls used by destitute children across the world, the objects are emblematic of the myriad conflicts, diseases, and conditions that threaten the lives and futures of the young and impoverished.

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is planning on making the French capital a safe haven for cultural heritage objects from areas across the globe threatened by armed conflicts.

It used the provision of aid as a benchmark solution, and then suggested the following: linking aid to limits on military spending; sending significant military forces into nations emerging from conflict to reduce the risk of a relapse into violence; providing (and having the ability to back up) a promise that a military force will intervene when a democratically elected government is threatened by violence.

Climate change threatens to exacerbate the current unprecedented flow of displacement of people and add to human misery by stoking violence and conflict.

Weller's team discovered the coming conflict zones by overlaying cities» 2030 growth projections with maps of threatened species» habitats.

«If a small group of countries does deploy a system and other countries feel threatened by it, there's a lot of scope for political or even military conflict,» Caldeira says.

The ability to do this is threatened by human - induced climate change, the accelerating effects of which are driving political instability and conflict globally.

Arlington, Virginia — In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950 - 2000 occurred in regions identified as the most biologically diverse and threatened places on Earth.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health are threatened by the specter of far - reaching effects of unchecked climate change, including community and global instability, mass migrations, and increased conflict.

Claims for threatened breaches of confidence and fiduciary duty by a senior employee and an injunction to restrain a conflict of interest in a US$ 15 million contract.

Claims for threatened breaches of confidence and fiduciary duty by a senior employee and an injunction to restrain a conflict of interest in a US$ 15 - million contract.

CONFLICT BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND EC LAW As seen in previous monthly rants, the ECJ has handed down judgments in industrial action cases giving strong preference to basic rules of EC law where they are threatened by action taken by trade unions to protect wage rates in higher - wage economies from competition from organisations from lower - wage economies using their own national labour.

yro.slashdot.org - In a shocking development, Uber said on Friday it has settled the high - stakes trade - secret theft lawsuit brought by Alphabet's Waymo, resolving a conflict that already cost the ride - hailing giant its top driverless car engineer and threatened to further embarrass the company.

Endorsement of any severe physically or sexually aggressive behavior as defined by the Conflict Tactics Scale — Revised in the past year (eg, punching, threatening with knife or gun) excluded couples from the study.

Conflict most often arrises when couples feel divided by the in - laws, when the mother - or father - in - law makes decisions or voices opinions that threaten a couple's sense of «we - ness» or solidarity.

Professionals should not make the experience worse by adding to the conflict or by causing either partner to feel more threatened or vulnerable than they do already.

The court said, «One who earns a living through the return on capital investment in rental properties can, if she does not wish to comply with an antidiscrimination law that conflicts with her religious beliefs, avoid the conflict without threatening her livelihood by selling her units and redeploying the capital in other investments.»