Sentences with phrase «twin threats»

Dynamics will inevitably face twin threats, both of its own making.

In addition, Delta would have to deal with the twin threats of increased government scrutiny on one hand, and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson's larger - than - life ego on the other, outweighing any benefit that could come from such a deal.

He told the bishops they should respond to the twin threats of Western and Islamic radicals by helping the world realize the beauty of the Christian family.

The Anderlecht defenders who seemed to have been comfortably handling Welbeck, were now stretched to deal with the twin threats of Sanchez and Podolski.

More generally, the European Union (EU) is perceived by many to be in crisis, buffeted by the twin threats of sovereign debt default...

According to The Taylor Review - Living Working Countryside - these twin threats are placing unsustainable pressure on rural economies, jeopardising their very existence.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

These figures show that if the twin threats to public pensions continue, African American retirees may lose much of the retirement security they've gained over the past half - century.

More generally, the European Union (EU) is perceived by many to be in crisis, buffeted by the twin threats of sovereign debt default (especially in Greece) and large scale migration from the Middle East.

In remarks clearly aimed at the National Front at home but also pointing to the wider problem in Europe after four years of financial crisis, Hollande warned of the twin threat to Europe from the forces of «nationalism and populism».

And since it was rediscovered in the 1950s, biologists have struggled to protect it from the twin threats of habitat loss and introduced predators, which drove its numbers to bottom out at just 30 individuals in the 1980s.

Population sizes of vertebrate species have been declining, mainly due to the twin threats of direct exploitation and habitat destruction [2,3].

Instead, the big risk is failing to beat back the twin threats of inflation and taxes.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Europe the airlines may already be suffering through the twin threat of rising oil prices and competition from an ever greener and more convenient Eurostar.

The twin threats of global warming and overfishing threaten Antarctica's biodiversity.

Anxious to safeguard Virginia's heritage of carbon pollution against the twin threats of clean energy and a more stable climate, the Republican leadership rammed through HB 2 and SB 21 on party - line votes.

In energy resource and water scarce China, the energy - water nexus, or watergy, is a twin threat.

From nut tree plantings for food security to establishing local currencies, Transition Town groups around the globe are tackling the twin threats

We've already seen from the Fast Money team's hilarious response to Matt Simmons» sensible advice, that the twin threats of peak oil and climate change have the potential to turn conventional financial wisdom on its head.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Europe the airlines may already be suffering through the twin threat of rising oil prices and competition from an ever

The result of this, the freeing of resources which private health care generates — it is not about some special system of privilege, it is about freeing resources for the rest of society — will allow even greater funding to be directed to our elderly, who, as the then new member for Bennelong said in his first speech in 1974 — when, incidentally, I was eight years old — «face the twin threats of loneliness and alienation».