Sentences with phrase «treat as a threat»

Questions were routinely treated as threats and stomped out.

The remains of the Soviet nuclear empire are being treated both as a threat and the last great nuclear business opportunity.

When foreign and acidic chemicals enter your body, your system doesn't know how to digest or process them and they are treated as a threat.

The basic nature of an allergy is that your body targets a normal food and treats it as a threat, despite it posing no harm.

But they also know how to take a deep dive when necessary, especially when certain species are treated as threats and cause public panic.

Some saw the coin's launch as good news, others treated it as a threat.

Not exact matches

«Now, ransomware is a fully established business model and a reliable profit engine for cybercriminals, as threat actors involved treat it as a legitimate industry by selling information, tools and resources to peers based all around the world.»

Many analysts treat cord - cutting as an existential threat to the business model of TV networks, but it's really just a change to the means of distribution.

They want their threats to be treated as credible even if they aren't.

Public policies that treat every member as integral to the entire family's health will diffuse the destructive tendency toward narcissism which is the real threat to family stability and strength.

We must treat truth, like an unborn child, as an innocent under threat.

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

«Nevertheless, the New Zealand government [is] still treating this as a live threat and current measures will remain in place for a period of time,» it said.

The fear heading into this match was that Breezango would not be treated as seriously as they should be, but they let the pair — Breeze, especially — show off their comedy chops while also looking like a serious threat to the Usos» reign.

The fundamental issue comes down to this: are fathers to be considered by default in law as an alien and a potential threat to their children until vetted, or treated in the same way that mothers are — a parent and a benefit to their children until there is strong evidence to suggest otherwise?

Why is someone stating an individual «I hate breastfeeding», such a threat to others; whereas someone saying «I hate tea» or «I hate toyotas» treated as a personal choice?

By presenting the potty as a special present in a mysterious box, kids see it as a treat, not a threat.

Using tools such as Twitter and the threat of spending boycotts, consumers and activists pressured retailers to abandon Beef Products Inc's ammonia - treated lean, finely textured beef.

Seeing protesters as an amorphous mob lies behind the legitimising of kettling, treating everyone as a potential threat on the basis of suspicions of perhaps a handful.

«End the war on pot: We welcome the push to legalize and regulate marijuana» — Daily News Editorial Board: «After many decades of treating as a crime the personal possession and use of a drug that is a negligible threat to public safety, New York is awakening to the folly of — and racial disparities widened by — its approach.

He said hence, anybody who uses threat of arms or physical threat to dispossess people of their legitimate property will be treated as criminals in accordance with Sections 52, 53 and 281 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.

People treat this Labour leadership as a joke; they're actually a real threat to national security.

He released a statement saying: «As someone who has also received death threats this week and previously, I am calling on all Labour Party members and supporters to act with calm and treat each other with respect and dignity, even where there is disagreement.

http://ghanapoliticsonline.com Speaking to The Informer on strict condition of anonymity, a key - member of the former President John Agyekum Kufuor - led Ashanti faction of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), who labeled as sickening, the activities of the group (LMVC), has asked Ghanaians to treat the threats on the EC by it convener, David Asante, with all the contempt it deserved.

But to further our shared strategic interests in the years ahead as we confront a variety of threats, it is crucial that Saudi Arabia be treated with the respect it has unwaveringly afforded the United Kingdom.

He added: «As someone who has also received death threats this week and previously, I am calling on all Labour party members and supporters to act with calm and treat each other with respect and dignity, even where there is disagreement.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

«Because soil bacteria need many thousands of years to develop new antibiotics, the bacteria in that community don't encounter these threats anywhere near as often as disease - causing bacteria, which we regularly treat with different antibiotics.»

Already a major threat, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, aka «superbugs,» could wreak havoc with civilization

Bacteria that have evolved to evade the antibiotics that we use to treat them are known as superbugs.

The team has tested its triple threat nanoparticles, containing drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer (such as doxorubicin, cisplatin and camptothecin), against lab - grown ovarian cancer cells.

Even dead p.acnes bacteria can be viewed as a threat and treated to a response.

Your body sees the ingested food as a threat and mistakenly treats it as a potential harmful substance, triggering a protective response.

We can't be sure exactly how mycotoxins cause chronic inflammation, but given how toxic and carcinogenic they are, in the kidneys, the liver, the brain, or wherever, it's likely that your immune system treats them as a direct threat and increases its activity to destroy them.

Because it is often hard to distinguish between regular mold and black mold, it is best to treat all mold growth as a threat.

Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.

A few of these include scaring the nation about both an internal and external threat; arbitrarily detaining citizens; creating secret prisons where torture is permitted; controlling the press; and treating political dissident as traitors.

If the pause was due to the realization that the creature that killed all the space marines was ridley was the reason for a pause, due to guilt as she didn't treat the birdie - creature as a threat — I'd be ok with it.

It surely is self - evident, because no serious movie would even think to make turn such a thing into a legitimate threat and have every other character treat it as such.

They're as much a threat to the giant we'll come to know as the BFG (Mark Rylance) as they are to young Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), because they tower over him and treat him as the «runt».

Part of the reason these procedures are so complicated is that teachers have rights to appeal that effectively treat the district's dismissal as a threat to a teacher's licensure.

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

The threats, which are being treated by police as a hoax, warn...

Had publishers treated Amazon like a retailer out to sell as many of their works as possible, rather than seeing this business partner as a threat to the bookstores they already worked with, they could have kept Amazon (or delayed them) from getting into publishing.

The story reads like Beth's journal as she encounters obstacles in her new community — having all her belongings stolen at the train station, being treated as an outsider, struggling with illness and uncovering the threat hidden in the woods around her new home.

But the children who have only known freedom would not carry that burden, and if their freedom wasn't challenged or undermined by white people — a big if — they could follow their dreams and never know how much it saps one's spirit and hope, for a human being to be seen, thought of, and treated like an animal, or a disposable piece of property, or simply as an enemy, judged as a threat or a failure on sight alone (like today; a white man's fear and loathing can get you shot like Trayvon Martin).

In Fillory the Chatwins are treated as kings and queens, and time and again they rescue the creatures who live there from any threats that menace them, including the sinister witch known as the Watcherwoman.

Treat it as a friend, bring it on board, it's no more of a threat than audio, make it part of the overall process..

To a dog the clicking noise of a clicker means nothing initially, (neutral stimulus) but after charging it by pairing it with treats, the clicker is associated with threats (conditioned stimulus) and the dog is all happy as soon as you take the clicker out of your pocket (conditioned response).

He treats the sound of the doorbell or visitors approaching as a threat and wants to assert himself.