Sentences with phrase «written threats of»

However, no one should knuckle under to heavy - handed bureaucrats» arbitrary demands of immediate payments of excessive monies owed, backed by written threats of legal action as was tried on me.

«GoodReads's laissez - faire policy toward its users is really what has led to the bullying on their site and to be honest, we've seen much worse than online, written threats of rape and murder.

In any event, Hezekiah spreads the written threats of the Assyrians before the LORD in the temple with fervent prayer, Isaiah utters a defiant oracle of victory, a great disaster befalls the Assyrian army, Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, and Jerusalem is saved.

Does a written threat of being reported to the police or a friendly notice that the work is part of a student's thesis including a photo of a cute juvenile squirrel on the label of the equipment have the potential to prevent possible vandalism?

It required my lawyer's written threat of a Writ of Habeas Corpus for the mother to surrender our daughter to me.

Not exact matches

But little has been written from the perspective of the banks, which are beginning to view crowdfunding's rise as a potential threat to their core business.

But research published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that «when people viewed pictures of others being loved or cared for, their brains» threat response became muted,» writes Inc.com's Jill Krasny.

But had Sony stuck to its guns and released the movie as planned, it would have made a strong statement about standing up for freedom instead of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»

After a year of empty fulmination, Rosen writes, Trump's China threats have grown «real teeth... Many in China think this is a rough patch and will blow over.

In a note to clients, BAML's Savita Subramanian writes that a fourth round of bond buying (called quantitative easing, or QE) by the Federal Reserve is actually the biggest threat to stocks:

Ahead of the hearing, entitled «Beyond Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies», several government agencies wrote to Committee outlining their views on the currency.

In his blog post announcing the removal of both sessions from the conference, which will take place this March, Forrester wrote that the goal of promoting «a valuable exchange of ideas on this very important topic» was foiled by threats of on - site.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

«With the threat environment unlikely to abate per a host of global tensions spanning China, the Mideast, North Korea, and Russia, we do not foresee any imminent fall - off in US military budgets,» wrote Morgan Stanley analysts led by Rajeev Lalwani.

While our own government in Ottawa silently condones the plans for further integration with the U.S., and while our provincial governments continue to be completely sound asleep on this vitally important topic, irony of ironies, at this writing 15 U.S. states have expressed concern that the big business sponsored Security and Prosperity Partnership is a process that, wait for it, is a threat to states» rights and to the sovereignty of the United States.

As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, most people «deem it unwise to be sane when sanity exposes one to ridicule, condemnation for spoiling the game or the threat of severe political retribution».

IT consultant Brian Sherman wrote recently that businesses» often - chaotic response to security threats «signals an opportunity for managed service providers who can sell the benefits of proactive, remote management.»

«There is no panic buying of guns because there is clearly no threat of federal government action in response to mass shootings that would restrict or regulate firearms,» Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, wrote in an email.

: A new class - action lawsuit against Facebook for complaints of privacy violations is a «multibillion - dollar threat,» Bloomberg News writes.

«We have more permanent threats: a stock market fueled by almost a decade of easy money,» Taleb wrote.

In that polemical film, based on the book he wrote of the same title, Navarro argues in racially tinged language that China is bent on global domination and is a threat to the US akin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

«After decades of doubting China's innovation potential, the United States now fears the rapid pace of China's technological catchup, and sees Chinese technology as a major (perhaps even existential) threat to US economic competitiveness,» Matt Sheehan, a fellow at the Paulson Institute, wrote in a blog post last month.

«The story elements — a porn star, the president, hush money, threats of physical harm, a $ 20 million lawsuit, the big reveal on camera — were the stuff of ratings gold,» wrote James Pindell at the Boston Globe after the interview.

Smartwatches are one of the «biggest competitive threats in company history,» the analysts wrote in a Wednesday note, highlighting the Apple AAPL, +0.18 % Watch.

Eugene Lawrence wrote the article, addressing the threat to America's children posed by the establishment and support of Catholic schools in New York City.

Wrote one bureau official to the associate director afterward: «We have neutralized the threat of being embarrassed by the Long Subcommittee.

Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, wrote a January 13 column about the threat of Iran to Israel.

Harvey Cox, the theological popularizer and prophet who wrote The Secular City in 1965 in celebration of the new freedom given to us by secularization and urbanization, has since that time shifted his emphasis to deploring the threat of technological imperialism.61 He believes that technology and its artifacts currently «release emotions incommensurate with their mere utility,» i.e., they «arouse hopes and fears only indirectly - related to their use.»

Harassment includes but is not limited to: verbal, physical, or written conduct, conduct of a sexually inappropriate nature, physical or psychological abuse, repeated remarks of a demeaning nature, implied or explicit threats, demeaning jokes, stories, or activities, and intentional use of names and pronouns inconsistent with a person's presented gender.

He reiterated that he had written a piece in The Times four years ago, saying: «the world must wake up urgently to the plight of the ancient churches throughout the region who are faced with the threat of mass murder and mass displacement».

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

No doubt Jones» attorney asked the court for people to stop writing, blogging, etc. (after all the threats of the Emergent Crowd haven't worked too well to get all of us to bow and scrape to their every whim).

Rubin has written a powerful analysis of the peculiar and dangerous threat to democratic liberties posed by environmentalism.

Tony Tanner has pointed out that Mansfield Park was written near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, during a time of tumultuous change and serious threats to Britain.

At the time, she wrote about the threat of excommunication in her church, calling it «akin to spiritual death.»

But as a non-clinician Finnis has written a very dry and theoretical treatise full of threat and dismay but without the practical solutions that clinicians are now putting in place.

Commenting on the threat of a thermo - nuclear holocaust, Stuart Chase writes:

In response to the ICNA program, Geller wrote in an email that a group she is affiliated with, Stop Islamization of Nations, will roll out a «multicity program to educate the American people on the true meaning of Sharia and the threat it poses to our cherished freedoms.»

It is reflected in the Gospel of Mark, brief and one - sided as is its selection of Jesus» teachings appropriate to its own special situation, that of a church facing martyrdom; but it is also reflected in Matthew, with its presupposition of a more settled community life, though at the same time facing a steady threat of persecution; and it is reflected clearly in Paul and in the letters he wrote to those who, like himself, were «in jeopardy every hour» for the faith that was in them.

Sparks also wrote a letter on behalf of Avodat passionately opposing Presbyterian divestment from Israel as a threat to the Jewish relations that Avodat seeks to enhance.

«A brief delay in unlawful deportation of residents who have lived here with government permission for over a decade outweighs the public interest in prompt execution of removal orders, where petitioners have been law - abiding and pose no threat to public safety,» Saris wrote.

The essential plot elements of Inherit the Wind — the lonely stand of the brave individualist against the small - minded bigotry of the townspeople, Cates» fear and trembling as he waits in his prison cell, the threat of ruin hanging over his head («The Scopes character and his fiancee play each scene as if he were on the way to the electric chair,» wrote one film reviewer)-- are pure fabrication.

Graffiti appeared: «Unhappy the people whose king is a child», and a great blustering ill - written threat, signed with the revolutionary sign of the Bundschuh, the sturdy peasant's clog: «We are 400 of the nobility.

A person who knew him during his imprisonment in Prinz - Albrecht Street wrote that the threat of torture.

it is quite funny when people use quotes in a book written by men as a form of threats.

This Saturday Sean Dyche's Burnley outfits have the complesion of relegation threats written over them.

Graham Badman wrote a controversial report during the early part of 2009, which put home education under threat in a way that had not previously happened.

«At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence,» writes Tough.

In an op - ed for The Post last year, three psychiatrists wrote that although the benefits of breast - feeding are backed by science, «the recommendations carry the force of a threat: If I don't breastfeed, my child is more likely to get sick; if I don't breastfeed, my child won't be as smart; if I don't breastfeed, I'm not a good mother.

That threat is now emerging after today's judgment from Lord Neuberger, the culmination of a ten - year campaign by the Guardian newspaper, forced the prime minister to accept the government must now consider how to release the 27 «black spider» letters written by the heir to the throne in 2004 and 2005.