Sentences with phrase «threatened by these questions»

John good question thats why i like this site because you can ask questions like that and not be judged for even thinking it.We should discuss these issues if we feel threatened by these questions our faith is nt very secure.brentnz

I'd say that those whose faith and / or control over others is threatened by questions become the biggest bullies.

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

Not exact matches

Today, one of her favorite ways to teach women to counter potentially creepy remarks is by answering a threatening or uncomfortable question with another question.

One of Urbaniak's favorite ways to do this is by answering a threatening or uncomfortable question with a question of your own.

As he was going through the immigration screening process at the airport that afternoon, he was pulled aside, put in a small adjoining room and spent the next ten hours being questioned by U.S. immigration officials and was threatened with deportation.

Barron's recently signaled dark skies with headlines that read: «Stocks Threatened by Looming End of Low Rates» and «4 Questions About an Unloved Bull Market.»

You will be threatened with «hell» if you question anything because if you found out the truth you would leave that little mind - control slave group and get really mad at how you were lied to in so many ways by so many people.

We would no longer be threatened by the fact that you also have questions and struggles.

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.

A cosmic interpretation of revelation is important today not only because of our need to address the question of purpose in the universe, but also because our globe is now threatened by an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions.

A couple may find it helpful to ask themselves questions such as these: Is this really an issue worth fighting over or is my self - esteem threatened by something my spouse has said or done?

Numerous people here have been threatened by him with slander due to questioning the legitimacy of his claim that he's a psychologist.

It is, for me, the hardest part of being a writer and blogger, particularly one who focuses on both faith and parenting — two areas where people tend to put all of their faith in the «right» answer and to feel threatened by those who answer important questions differently than they do.

There would be no courage and no glory in voting for a law based more on slogans than on arguments, in conforming to the dominant political correctness out of fear of the threatened anathema, and by counter-attacking as a last resort by a question such as: «Dven if there is no reason to pass a law, why is it a problem if we want to pass one?»

Questions, doubts and fears begin to invade your life, little by little, threatening to overwhelm your entire existence.

You can also support the child by asking less threatening questions that don't focus on specific schools — «Are you interested in being on the East Coast or West Coast?»

The question arises because Crimean Peninsula is currently being occupied by thousands of well - armed men in uniforms that has no insignia who threaten to storm military installations and already occupied a few, as well as blocked many routes, etc..

At the corruption trial of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, an ex-supervisor of the senator's son, Adam, testified that he had been threatened by the younger Skelos after questioning his work attendance.

«So the question Nigerians need to ask instead of allowing themselves to be distracted by the statement from the Presidency is this: Are Nigerians now repaying the «loan'that El - Rufai threatened to make Nigeria repay?

Although PCS has a substantial pensions deficit, its immediate solvency isn't threatened and questions have been raised by many members as to the benefits of subsuming their union into Unite.

Gordon Brown slipped in a little «punch - and - judy» by pointing to Mr Howard's infamous «did you threaten to overrule him» interview with Jeremy Paxman, saying the honourable gentleman knows a thing or two about not answering the question.

The question lingers at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, a prison with a history of complaints of official brutality, where the Times recently reported on allegations that an inmate was beaten to death in April by what's known at the prison as the «Beat Up Squad,» and witnesses put in solitary confinement and threatened.

But they find it «very hard to say this in their departments or to their colleagues» he says, «because it's very threatening to the structure by which research is done,» raising the central question of «Who's going to actually do the bench research?»

The rule in question was finalized by the Bush administration in December, six months after the polar bear was declared a threatened species due to the melting of its sea - ice habitat.

In September last year, the government advised against new building developments on coasts threatened by erosion, which raises questions about the proposed expansion of the Sizewell nuclear power complex.

Professors welcoming postdocs into their own union appears to call into question a couple of commonly heard objections to postdoc unionization: that it damages the postdoc - PI relationship and that it threatens grants and grant renewals by raising the cost of doing research.

When it rains it pours, as Larry's loser of a brother (Kind, The Wild) won't leave, his son (Wolff) can't keep out of trouble, and his daughter (McManus) is repeatedly pilfering money from under his nose — and then even his tenure is in question when anonymous letters start coming in questioning his character, made murky by the fact that a student may be trying to bribe him into giving him a passing grade and threatening defamation for the accusation.

An almost clinical psychological study, it questions the power dynamics between the long - suffering wife, threatened at one point with having her vagina sewn shut (the first Mexican audience laughed at the huge cord proposed for the deed) and the husband, unhinged by sexual desire — whether for his wife or his butler remains somewhat ambiguous.

As one example of the prevalence of the problem, a survey conducted by I - Safe America, an Internet safety organization, found that 37 percent of 1,500 middle - school children questioned acknowledged being bullied or threatened online.

There are also those who, threatened and offended by the notion of programs like New Leaders, question the fundamental legitimacy of bringing in outsiders.

To avoid defensiveness on the part of the parent, this can be done by using questions «When Jamie threatens the other boy back, do you think that makes it better or worse?»

By having a single classmate as a resource, the TCK will be able to ask questions without feeling threatened.

He went to write an elaborate explanation of this figure in a New York Times editorial where he explained that 1 % to 3 % was far too small a number of teachers to threaten the due process rights, and thereby destabilize the teaching force even further, by threatening the 97 % to 99 % of teachers whose effectiveness should not be questioned.

But when her own life is threatened — not by protestors, but by the very scientists who created her sister's clone — Cate starts questioning everything she thought she knew about the cloning movement.

The suggestion is easy to dismiss, but it does speak to a broader question: do traditional publishers feel threatened by self - publishers?

Here are some of Thornton's signs of a good breeder: completely answers questions about the breed, raises puppies in the home and not in a pen or in filthy conditions, and has a sales contract that includes a minimum one - year health guarantee against life - threatening or crippling conditions caused by heritable defects.

QUESTION: The Florida black bear is listed by the state as a threatened species and has been protected from trophy hunting for more than ten years.

In one instance, the vigilante questioned one of Riddler's men by threatening to crush the man's head under the Batmobile's rear wheel.

In the case of Tosca, our Work of the Week, the song in question is «Vissi d'arte» from the Puccini opera Tosca, in which the title character, «the opera singer with the eyes of black, threatened with rape by her lover's imprisoner, sings of her life dedicated to art and love, [then] fights him off and kills him,» explains Schimmel Gold, who set out to capture the «despair and overwhelming emotions» of the tragic heroine.

In 1994 - 5 the value of the site was being debated, its identity questioned, and its very existence threatened by development.

A library in Karachi puts itself under a harsh regiment of censorship; threatened by suspicious visitors asking questions about the vast reserve of books on comparative religion and history, the board decides to hide seventy percent of its collection.

You'll undoubtedly hear from some folks who question whether Maldives is threatened by rising seas by pointing to scientific controversies over recent sea - level trends in the Indian Ocean, so I'll put up a link to relevant published literature on Google Scholar here.

But the future of this remarkable place, known as The Meeting of Waters (or Encontro das à guas) is being called into question by a new industrial port which threatens to pollute the rivers and disrupt wildlife — prompting environmentalists to rise in its defense.The Meeting of Waters marks the spot where the brown, murky waters of the Solimões mixes with the dark torrent of the Rio Negro near the northern capital of Manuas, converging to form the Amazon river proper.

This question is central to protecting a species which is threatened by inhumane hunting methods.

Using data cited in Exxon's 2014 report prepared in response to shareholders questions, Energy and Carbon — Managing the Risks, Tri-State calculated that the increase in global temperature by 2040 will be 2.4 degrees, a significantly higher and more threatening level than 2 degrees.

And returning to L2016's pertinent question from section 1, ISk will indeed be strongly aroused by scientific theories or discoveries that are «inconvenient» or threatening to one's lifestyle, livelihood, or deeply - held beliefs.

Thus, the real question is what is the interest and purpose behind it, which people are pursuing, who are spreading the rumor, here and elsewhere, that Lennart Bengtsson was threatened by other scientists?

More specifically, the question was raised in this context whether Protocol no. 16 would not threaten the autonomy of EU law and the monopoly of the ECJ on the interpretation of EU law, by allowing supreme courts of the Member States to engage in a kind of «forum shopping» between the Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts.

«The present events seriously threaten the judicial independence of the Boards of Appeal and by doing that call in question the guarantee of an independent and impartial review of the European Office's decisions by a judicial body.