Digital currency attempts to disrupt the financial industry, and it’s potentially threatening to the existing financial services industry, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
My friend’s granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the opportunity to speak out, I had to take it. This is a life threatening issue for men; it happens every day. The more you know, the better your chances are of dealing with it if the worst were to happen.
I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw – we talk about crumbling bridges – I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.
‘Jamie’ is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, ‘Oh, Jamie – how threatening can he be?’
The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it’s limited to the office – then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!
Decentralised collaborations are inherently threatening to Whitehall’s core principles.
If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and – I think those of us who are artists and who are in media have to think carefully about what those pictures are.
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad are two sides of the same terror coin. Letting Assad continue to wield lethal power means that Tehran’s terror network – from Hezbollah to the Houthis – will persist in threatening the West.
I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.
A riot’s unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.
Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we – and some of the beauty of this world – will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.
Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come down on a specific case that may come before the Court.
Let’s face it: ‘Threatening’ people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like aim at careers in television.
I don’t think there are many people out there – except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better – who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That’s something we need to support each other with.
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that’s the most threatening of all.
If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don’t begin soon. It works sometimes.
I lament that Paris can be a threatening space for Jews, Roma, Africans and Arabs, but the truth is, as a black American, I’ve never felt safer or less harassed anywhere.
The Everglades are flat, and they border a rising ocean. As the sea levels rise, the shorelines erode, and that salty water travels inland, threatening the aquifers supplying fresh drinking water to Floridians.
If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.
I’m concerned that we’re sending these military men… facing an infectious disease that could be deadly. If they go to Iraq, and they fight ISIL, and they come home, they’re not bringing ISIL with them and threatening their families or platoon mates.
If you aren’t a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
I was in Key West, Florida, and I ate some key lime pie and the base of the pie had nuts in it. I’m allergic to nuts and I went into anaphylactic shock, which is life threatening, and ended up in hospital.
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we’re on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.
America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while.
