Sentences with phrase «threats than the problems»

Particulates, ozone and smog coupled with extreme temperatures form a more dangerous health threat than these problems would be individually, researchers have found.

Only HIV / AIDS, malnutrition, and lack of clean drinking water and sanitation are greater health threats than the problems of polluted indoor air.

Not exact matches

The problem comes when threats emerge faster than solutions, and companies lose their balance.

To compound this problem, mall owners are now starting to mail in the keys to financially troubled malls: More mall landlords are choosing to walk away from struggling properties, leaving creditors in the lurch and posing a threat to the values of nearby real estate... [as] some of the largest U.S. landlords are calculating it is more advantageous to hand over ownership to lenders than to attempt to restructure debts on properties with darkening outlooks (LINK).

It's admirable that Biden is speaking out for the victims of sexual abuse, but resorting to insults and threats of violence seems more like (potentially dangerous) posturing than offering real long - term terms solutions to the problems highlighted by the #MeToo moment.

The problem with ego defenses is that they often function in compulsive, life - constricting ways, long after the original threat is gone, rather than being temporary defenses when self - esteem is too threatened.

Andrew Flint (@AndrewMijFlint): Bet One: $ 5 Lokomotiv - Anzhi: Anzhi to win with +1 handicap @ 1.68 at bet365 Lokomotiv are a side bereft of imagination going forward and offer very little serious threat other than to weak sides with problems of their own.

The main problem was that Arsenal were defending a lot better than usual, and they actually started to look like a threat on the counter.

The problems this year include finishing, individual mistakes and finding a consistent attacking threat other than Alberth Elis.

Home Education abroad — links to home education in places other than the UK Home educators» blogs — online journals by home educating families Books about home education — a few of the relevant books with brief reviews Home education in the media — links to online articles from newspapers or the BBC Home education under threat — why the «Badman» report of 2009 was a problem for home educators Learning plan — tongue - in - cheek formal plan for a home education year

Nearly 2 in 3 drivers believe that aggressive driving is a bigger problem today than three years ago, while nine out of ten believe aggressive drivers are a serious threat to their personal safety.

The problem with stress is that it constantly activates our fight - or - flight response to varying degrees and since more than 99 % of the things that stress us are not actual immediate threats to our lives, this response has become inappropriate in our daily lives.

I was responding to the threat from the mainstream publishers rather than the destructive elements within the indie camp, but its the same problem really and needs the same solutions.

What he may not realize is that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) might look at his refusal to deal with his financial problems as a more serious threat than if he were to go ahead and legally deal with his difficulties.

This strategy implies that he suspects that the major bond insurers have problems more severe than have been discounted by the equity and debt markets, and that their AAA bond ratings will remain under threat for some time.

Horses can display problem behaviors related to aggression and can pose a huge threat to both human and animal safety, potentially to an even greater degree than aggressive dogs and cats.

My problem with this idea heading into it, however, is how Game Freak would be able to justify having Team Rainbow Rocket exist as a threat only in a brief, post-game episode rather than its own full game.

Overall, Democrats and liberals are more likely than Republicans and conservatives to say the Earth is warming, human activity is the cause of the change, the problem is serious and there is scientific consensus about the climate changes underway and the threat it poses to the planet.

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

Yet the emergence of global warming as an issue in the 1980s with its potential for large - scale social change needed to ameliorate its threat was seen as more threatening to conservatives in regard to industry, prosperity, life - style, and the entire American - way of life, than were traditional pollution problems.

The precautionary principle, as I've outlined it, shows the problems you have when you have misdiagnosed something benign as a threat, and then take actions that are more harmful than the status quo.

For example, first work on preventing catastrophic climate change, and use the research from that to address the more general problem of getting shaved monkeys to worry about threats they can't see that will kill them in the impossibly far distant future (viz, later than next fiscal quarter).

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.»

If some consideration for historical responsibility is not taken into account in allocating national responsibility for ghg emissions reductions, then those poor nations which have done very little to create the current threat of climate change will be required to shoulder a greater burden of needed global ghg emissions obligations than would be required of them if responsibility for the existing problem is not taken into account.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

«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.

It assembled a brain trust that would spend more than a decade deepening the company's understanding of an environmental problem that posed an existential threat to the oil business.

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.

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 --

The HHS checklist offers general, step - by - step guidance for healthcare providers in the event of a security incident that includes: (1) immediately executing response procedures and contingency plans to fix technical problems to stop a security incident; (2) reporting a security incident to appropriate law enforcement agencies; (3) reporting all cyber threat indicators to federal and information - sharing analysis organizations; and (4) reporting a breach to the HHS as soon as possible (but no later than 60 days after the discovery of a breach affecting 500 or more individuals).

Human beings in general pay more attention to threats, problems, and negative aspects than they do to opportunities, rewards, and the positive — but we lawyers add a layer of «negativity mindset» on top of this existing predisposition.

«Nowhere is this problem thrown into sharper relief than in Florida, where Governor Rick Scott has complied with the gun lobby's every wish, speaking at the NRA convention and even signing legislation that prevented doctors and mental health professionals from addressing threats relating to firearms with their patients.»

Threat related more strongly to internalizing problems than to externalizing problems; self - blame related more strongly to externalizing problems than to internalizing problems.