Sentences with phrase «very live threat»

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In addition to that, however, Catholics in the West today must understand that we are very likely heading into a season of persecution ourselves, a season of the cross less dire than that lived by those Christians presently under direct mortal threat, but quite real nevertheless.

This placing of their very lives in the hands of a strategic elite was like the trust that always had to be granted by democracies to their military leaders, such as in ancient Athens or pre-1950s America; it was unlike it in the sheer immediacy of the new sort of death - threat and the practical impossibility of evading it.

He speaks of the threat to the composite culture that India has always been, its community life - style, the whole Indian identity which was the basis of a very decentralized notion of living together, working together, having respect for each other's diversity, not have a sense of anything being alien.

When the threat of random murder is omnipresent, we live in a world where reward and punishment, life and death are so arbitrary that their very meaning looms precarious.

It's a wonderful thing to live in an era without existential threats to national survival — but, as Walker Percy knew, it's very difficult to see the Acropolis when the only thing that threatens it is air pollution.

Today, fortunately, pregnancy is very rarely a threat to maternal life or health.

The threat to Australia's market share «is very real and we'd be foolish to think otherwise», Tracey Hayes, chief executive of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association, said from Darwin, where the bulk of Australia's live cattle exports are shipped to Indonesia.

«We gave away some cheap penalty corners and didn't defend them very well, which with the corner threats they have is always going to make life difficult,» he said.

Because the world is increasingly marked by instability and threats that risk undermining our way of life and the very things that we hold dear.

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

Unless there is a tangible threat to life or limb, these convicted killers, rapists, drug - dealers and other very serious criminals should be sent home.

«I think we're probably a lot better at looking at what we want to defend and actually not very good, on the liberal left, looking at the threat itself and really allowing ourselves to understand the context we're living in,» he explains from his house in Cambridgeshire.

And although his theories were not yet mature, he was completely aware of their explosive nature: By dissociating intellect and morality from god's power of creation, and attributing them instead to self - evolving forces, Darwin undermined the very foundations of a society shaped by the Anglican Church, with its hopes of eternal life and the omnipresent threat of punishment.

Anyone blessed with even basic cable knows there are very real threats to the future of human life on this planet: mega-tsunamis, supervolcanoes, Ultimate Fighting Championships.

This makes the anti-vaccination message a direct threat to our very lives.

Since his baffling weight poses a serious threat to his life, his parents have put him on a very strict diet consisting only of brown rice, in the hope that it will stop his frightening growth.

The main idea is that living a few centuries / thousands years ago was very stressful, with the lingering threat of death.

Here, Finch's television news anchor Howard Beale famously announces his plan to commit suicide on live television, and while responding at first with threats to fire him, station executives decide to exploit the sensational potential of his very public collapse.

Humans are living longer; the traditional professions disappear while new ones are created; international mobility is drastically increasing population diversity; terrorism, environmental threats and inequality need our collective attention; and robots and gene editing are coming, requiring us to re-examine the very core of what it means to be human.

With very clear threats to life and limb, and without any need to account for our actions when laws become irrelevant, we can revert to our primal instincts for personal survival.

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Life is therefore becoming more difficult for grassroots women who find themselves managing families in very strenuous circumstances, where traditional livelihoods are under threat and where men are often absent.

Parasites are both a gross annoyance and threat to life, and we believe at McLean's that avoidance and prevention are the very best ways to keep our dogs and cats living happy and long lives.

Despite the fact that we do not live in a particularly humid climate, the threat of heartworms is still very real.

Almost all dog owners are exposed to health threats, like there are various zoonotic diseases, (diseases transmitted from animals to humans) many of which are very contagious and life threatening.

Daydream Island Living Reef Manager and marine biologist John Gaskell said that plastic pollution is a serious threat as it degrades very slowly polluting waterways for a very long time and impacting on the health of marine animals.

We seem to have a tendency to think that the masses of poor, undeveloped people living in very marginal and deteriorating conditions, are not much of a threat to us.

SM: Well, as a landowner, and as an organization that's dedicated to the protection of biodiversity of life on Earth, we feel very strongly that climate change poses a significant threat to biodiversity, and therefore, it's one of the largest threats to our mission — both to everything that we've done in the last 57 years and the work that we will do over the next 100 years or beyond.

Given the consequent threat to life for very large numbers of people of failing to respect the 2.0 C threshold, I've yet to see the case for treating those seriously proposing a carbon budget giving a mere 66 % chance of doing so with anything like respect.

I agree that as a consequence of industrialisation and population that mankind should not just take it for granted that everything will be ok and we should not worry ourselves over the impact we have on our planet, but that does not translate into our very existence and way of life as being a threat to the planet.

We should be acting on a very real threat to our current way of life on this planet that is being caused by our activities.

When presented with FACTS about the very real human suffering caused by their fans (ie the daily acoustic misery lived by thousands of people globally, just like those in this video) these monsters fallback on the «threat» of man - made catastrophic global warming in an effort to justify it.

For this reason, the IPCC consensus position is entitled to strong respect that, at the very minimum, climate change poses a legitimate significant threat to human well - being and the natural resources on which life depends.

I said: - 3oC warmer oceans = mass reef death - 3oC warmer earth = very large sea level rise - acidic oceans are threat to marine life You say this is only based on models.

These tribes are not portrayed as noble savages living in harmony with nature, whose livelihoods or very existence is under threat from encroaching western civilisation or climate change, but as fellow humans whom it might be interesting to get to know.

What with national newspapers talking about survivalism and community resillience, and radio soaps joining the Transition Towns initiative, it really seems like the mainstream media in the UK are embracing the idea that peak oil, fossil fuels and climate change are very real, and very immediate, threats to our way of life.

This can work well because of the simple fact you can purchase life insurance at this very risky point in your life and not be declined because of the threat of going off to a war zone.

Regardless of whether you live in a small loft or a very large house, you can put together a policy to take care of your personal possessions and shield you from potentially damaging liability threats.

Ultimately, if predictions of climate change impacts occur, it poses such great threats to the very existence of the Islands that the government must seriously consider what the impact will be on the Islanders» lives, and provide leadership so that cultural destruction is avoided.

Siblings and parents of your spouse are a huge part of their lives, so when these people pose a threat to the health and happiness of your marriage, it can become a very sensitive and difficult matter.