Sentences with phrase «used as a threat»

The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them.

They aren't to be used as a threat or an ultimatum.

A spanking is never used as a threat, an outlet for anger or in the place of properly and clearly set bounderies.

They are costly, and the IRS prefers to use them as a threat.

Even if she doesn't file for bankruptcy, she may be able to use it as a threat to persuade the company that they should reduce her interest rate to the previously agreed level or to settle for less than the amount owed.

Not exact matches

Between 75 % and 80 % of all malicious attacks come from within an organization, not from an external threat, making it all the more necessary to use ethical hacking services such as security auditing and penetration testing to evaluate your IT infrastructure thoroughly.

Relying on other states to deal with threats within their own territory and using Special Operations Forces and covert action as a complement to partner forces means a minimal role for drone strikes.

But while manned aircraft can usually fight back against signal jamming, and pilots in a cockpit can always use their own judgment if communications or navigation is lost, jamming could pose a serious threat to the US Navy's drones, as there's no one in the cockpit, according to Lamrani.

Just as businesses used the threat of going to Google Apps to get better terms on Microsoft Office, cloud consumers use multiple cloud options to keep their providers honest on prices and service.

«Just as a dog will expose its throat to show submission or surrender to the victor,» they write, «humans use their palms to show that they are unarmed and therefore not a threat.»

They argued that as consumers use their PCs less in lieu of more capable smartphones, the number of security threats to mobile devices would also grow.

It's an updated version of the internal rules the company has used to determine what's allowed and what isn't, down to granular details such as what, exactly, counts as a «credible threat» of violence.

Oddly, Yellen avoided using this threat as justification for the increase.

This is deadly and although technologies such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto attempt to address the threat of smartphone use while driving, they're far from perfect themselves.

Adding further detail to the situation discussed in Vaughn's lawsuit, Tesla referred to a number of «conflicting accusations and counter-accusations between several African - American and Hispanic individuals, alleging use of racial language, including the «n - word» and «w - word,» as well as the threat of violence towards one another.»

Bt as a rule using a work computer for personal reasons or doing work on a personal computer (or tablet or smartphone) can significantly change the threat level that an employer has to protect itself against.

And then he watched in awe and horror as students began posting intimate and often offensive remarks about their peers — including sexual histories, accusations of drug use, and threats of violence.

The more real competitive threat, however, is that service providers are going to increasingly use usage limits as their discrimination tools.

Expect a low - key response from Canada if Trump indeed intends to use temporary tariff relief as a bargaining threat.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well - established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat.»

Trump used a report from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross outlining national security threats as a basis for justifying the tariffs.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

In recent weeks, Trump has used the tariffs — or the threat of tariffs — as a bargaining chip in broader trade negotiations.

Mr. Trump used his threat of stiff steel and aluminum tariffs as a cudgel to extract the concessions he wanted, helping produce an agreement that had stalled amid disagreements this year.

The new evidence also revives the discussion about the export of commercial spyware abroad, and how nation - states are using them to undermine entities they deem as political threats.

But in order to use the threat of steel tariffs as an opening gambit to broader negotiations with the global community, the Trump administration would need a great deal more of a resource it's lacking: credibility.

Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 % of assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.

We work with a network of teachers who use our framework and guidelines to ensure a consistent and hiqh quality educational experience that can deliver the needed knowledge in your business or corporation to understand the threats and opportunities as well as challenges and paths to grasping this complex and hard - to - grasp technology and theory we call Blockchain.

But whatever the threat, the Pentagon is also using the stepped - up Russian patrols as another argument for bigger budgets for submarines and anti-submarine warfare.

Using Tronc's own company funds for the selective «stock buyback,» rather than his own money, he first removed that lawsuit threat that still hung over his head; Oaktree agreed, as part of this sale, to drop its potential claims.

In order to address the previously mentioned issues, ICO platforms have emerged to offer instant, safe, and easy - to - use solutions, as they allow not only safe platforms where the hacker threat is minimized but they also offer the ability to manage multiple wallets with the tokens they contain in one single place.

Sonny Dasgupta, Micro Focus product marketing lead for security operations, calls ArcSight ESM «a complete SIEM solution, which collects data at enterprise scale, enriches data with security expertise, uses analytics to find unknown threats and detects threats as they start to occur.»

The key point here is that they were using Canadian ports as an example of the competitive threat posed to US jobs and were calling for the US government to make similar investments in the context of a national strategy.

Rape culture is when a woman who campaigned for women to be included on banknotes got threatened with rape for her troubles, and when she tried to do something about it, got accused of using the (violent, graphic, horrific) threats against her as a way to get famous.

every religious type use this threat to sinners as well as unbelievers.

For many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populaces.

Just as conservatives denounce the Westboro baptist church and their tactics, I hope that «liberals» everywhere denounce those who use hateful threats of violence, death, and damnation as tactics for furthering the liberal agenda (or ANY agenda at that)

A new set of etiquette vigilantes who spot such etiquette violations as smoking in the presence of nonsmokers without their permission or refusing to extend road courtesies to other drivers will proudly report having used obscenities and threats in order to make the violators «mind their manners.»

His strategy is to lie about what he's going to do («I support Israel»), do the opposite (send massive funding ovderseas to the Muslim Brotherhood for use against Israel, and positon Israel as the «threat») and then lie abouit what he did («relations with Israel have never been closer»).

As I have always said, the worse side of religion is its hold on the taboo switch — its ability to turn on guilt using sanctimonious triggers with threats of exclusion, death and hell.

It is thus seen that Islam has not allowed divorce in order that a man may use the threat of divorce as a sword which he waves in the woman's face.

While modernity, the Holocaust, the American Jewish experience, and threats to Israel's existence have forced us to confront serious demographic concerns, oftentimes we use such issues as a veil to cover our ignorance of our own tradition.

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An open world abroad» guaranteed where necessary by the threat or actual use of American power» has been perceived by generations of American statesmen as essential to domestic prosperity and national security.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

The bible promotes rule by force — the mightiest get to make the rules and use threats and torture to get your slaves to do as you want.

The Technique does not use fear or threats, nor is it interested in devising some kind of insidious propaganda as it was understood in the l930s.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

In a March 2012 appearance on AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer's radio show, Lively explained that he first went to Uganda in 2002 as a keynote speaker in order to stave off a threat from what he called «the globalists who use the se.xual revolution and the Planned Parenthood Federation and the global hom.ose.xual movement» to accu.mulate power and control population.