Sentences with phrase «threatened by the idea»

I agree with Spengler that it is mediocrities who feel threatened by the idea of genius.

Your child also may be very sensitive to change and may feel threatened by the idea of a new family member.

Colleagues have at times been so threatened by her ideas that their attacks have gotten personal.

My adoptive mother, Mary, was so supportive, not at all threatened by the idea.

It was almost as if they felt threatened by the idea of art connecting with the world in any way.

Publishers feel that their business models are threatened by the idea of Google books or any service that allows people electronic access to the full text of their publications.

It also lets them know you are not threatened by their ideas, but won't be manipulated.

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«As a business woman, I have heard «crazy» and other dismissive terms used by individuals to shut down ideas and conversation that threaten their position.

Just when economic bullying by big corporations threatened the whole idea of independent small business, company builders nationwide did the last thing anyone expected — they turned to one another for help.

But let me tell you, Dan would much rather I take the initiative and communicate to him directly about my thoughts, ideas, and opinions because 1) he's from Jersey and that's how people from Jersey talk to each other, 2) it's way more efficient, saving time and emotional energy, and 3) I've got some damn good ideas and Dan's not threatened by that.

To return to the earlier parable, ideas do not much matter if they are held or being debated by men whose investment in them is as remote as that of the man high on the cliff who idly speculates about the options available to men threatened with drowning.

Klan ideology, at its core, is centered on the idea that white Americans are threatened by nonwhite minorities and that most of these threats are arranged or encouraged by a sinister Jewish conspiracy.

Once more, the idea that God is to be modeled exclusively after so - called masculine characteristics is readily seen to be the way in which males who are fearful of, or threatened by, more feminine qualities protect themselves.

One sign of a place you might want to consider leaving, is if they are threatened by questions, new ideas or dialogue.

Yet in our time there is growing concern that our lives may be increasingly threatened by the role of technology (tools, machines, gadgets) and technique (ideas and skills which enable men to control and manipulate both things and people).

stage); projection (onto others of the feelings or impulses eliciting anxiety); rationalization (giving oneself and others reasonable excuses for unreasonable behavior); denial (of threatening aspects of reality); introjection (seeking protection by identifying internally with a feared person or idea); reaction formation (denying threatening impulse by going to the other extreme in one's behavior — e.g., denying repressed rage by behaving in super «loving» ways); intellectualizing (avoiding threatening feelings by chronic «head - tripping»).

Any ideology which turns into a an idol can be threatened by a new idea.

The dangerous consequence of the impact of the Messianism of conquest introduced into India by the Semitic religions is that Hinduism has absorbed it and produced Hindutva, with its idea of Hindu communalism and Hindu Rashtra threatening secularism which is the foundation of national unity in our context of religious pluralism.

Threatened by the emergence of modern Nation - State and the ideas of secularism, some sections in all religions assert a fundamentalist posture in the major religions.

I applaud people who have chosen that path and stick to it, and I must say I find it intensely tedious to listen to those cynical «vegan - bashers» who think they are amusing as they snark away at vegans without having any idea why they are even doing so, other than being threatened by something they don't understand, or by some vague aversion they have to any spiritual - sounding practice or «liberal - hippie - sounding» philosophy.

This move towards increased corporatisation of the media is directly opposed to the idea of the press as a public, social good, whose intrinsic value would be compromised if threatened by censorship and over-regulation.

Skelos rejected the idea that Cuomo threatened the Legislature into submission by holding the extender bill option over lawmakers» heads, saying:

This optimistic assessment makes sense only so long as God is a truly big idea, not an idea small enough to be threatened by the results of experiments; not a «God of the gaps» but a God that is bigger than the cosmos.

In the May article «The Truth About Invasive Species,» Alan Burdick dismisses the impact of introduced species with the contention that «fifty years of research by invasion biologists around the world has failed to confirm it,» suggesting that all changes and impacts wrought by invaders merely threaten «our self - serving ideas of what nature is supposed to be.»

In The Happening, director - writer M. Night Shyamalan explores the idea that plants, threatened by our poor stewardship of their environment, might launch a holocaust against humanity.

Creationism and Evolution are explored by Dr Adam Rutherford Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the idea that the teaching of evolution is being threatened by a rise in creationism amongst religious students.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

During this session, there will be a number of proposed initiatives to advance this principle and these deregulation and innovation ideas, but of course they will be vigorously opposed by the usual suspects who have a vested interest in the current delivery system and / or feel threatened by a more deregulated environment.

By providing a clear demonstration of threatening ideas from the outside, we end up giving the orthodoxy's ideological centre a clearer delineation — reinforcing it.

But now that we're in the midst of holiday season, most of us are running into the inevitable friends and relations who are threatened by new technology and maybe even hostile to the whole idea of e-books and e-readers.

Trump also revisited his idea of incentivizing colleges to keep their costs low by threatening to remove their tax - exempt status on large endowments.

Tying a dog with a chain or rope is never a good idea because the dog can not escape if threatened by predators, fire, or the like, and tying a dog can make it aggressive.

Gamers can get a good idea of what it's like to take Ayo through the various levels of his world where they might need to jump shark - infested waters, swing by vines over snapping gators in swamps, or dodge threatening Japanese Sumos made from rock.Backers are now needed to raise funds so the talented team at Cloud M1 LLC can provide the finishing touches to the story and develop more levels.

It also gives readers an idea of what the gaming landscape looked like back then, as computer games developers were beginning to feel threatened by the rebirth of the console market.

At the same time, the American scene was equally hostile to us because if, as we thought, to make an authentic gesture without any a priori idea of how it would turn out, was the real gambit, then everything — «hard - edge» abstraction with its ideology, Social Realism with its ideology, regionalism with its ideology, landscape painting with its sentimentality, portrait painting with its class background, anything you could imagine — was equally threatened by our premise.

From Terry Svat's work that is a reminiscent of Lascaux cave pictographs by creating the idea of packing up, moving on, a new freedom, Pauline Jakobserg and her constructing narratives that confront cultural memories, Felisa Federman depicts nature connected with folk legends, Miguel Perez Lem landscapes evoking the grandeur of the Andes Mountains and Nancy Nesvet beautifuly paints the threatened future of glaciers and wildlife.

The toolset of denialist restriction - by - authority is always the same: rudeness, abuse, anger amounting to rage, personal profiling, selective enforcement of arbitrary rules, legal threats, enemy lists, and outright censorship of threatening ideas — always with a view toward sustaining a «protected bubble» for denialist beliefs.

And so, like corpuscles in the blood, researchers all over the world now rush in overwhelming numbers to repel infection by any idea that threatens the carefully cultivated belief in climatic disaster.

With your escape reference I am reminded of the idea that we need to advance space programs so that in the event the Earth is threatened by an asteroid, we will have some other options such as inhabiting Mars.

I'm sure that Satoshi Nakamoto (the mysterious founder of Bitcoin) had no idea what his creation would spawn, much less that it would one day be threatened by another cryptocurrency: Ethereum.

The EFF also asserts that bad patents threaten free expression by allowing the patent holder to threaten anyone using the technology for any purpose, whether or not the use causes any harm to the patent holder, is used for non-commercial purposes, or the user had any idea they were even...

The basic idea is that grabbing onto people and groups who validate your viewpoints is a good way of lessening anxiety caused by your impending doom and it helps protect your self - esteem, which is threatened by thinking about death.

From our experience may come other ideas on how boards can maintain relevant and valued services when threatened by changing circumstances.