Sentences with phrase «threats of a particular problem»

What are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a particular problem?

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Piracy is a particular threat because of a second, bigger problem: the apparently arbitrary nature of e-book pricing.

Many MMOs in particular, have attempted to embrace a libertarian ideal for the genre, encouraging players to do whatever the game allows, and then allowing players to use the threat of force to correct problems on their own.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

In her time in office, Congresswoman Bonamici has worked to address the problem of ocean pollution — in particular the challenges inflicted upon the Oregon coast by debris from the 2012 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, leaving her district with unsightly beaches, high cleanup costs and the threat of invasive species.

If «progressive leaders» of the 1990s really believed that CAGW is an existential threat, then centralizing power to solve that particular problem was not out of character for «progressive leaders».

The Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA)-- an alliance of 37 member organisations — has issued a communique expressing concern over the Government's health policy direction, in particular the threat of a two - tier health system and what they say is a weakening of primary care, in the face of evidence that primary care is part of the solution not the problem.