| Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats. |
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| He claims to have received death threats, says his home was attacked and his fast-food van was petrol bombed. |
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| I kept strictly away from the threats, focussing instead on the promises and appeals to reason. |
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| Underwater explosives and limpet mines, among other weapons, are considered as potential threats to merchant and military shipping. |
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| Do you think the general public appreciates and fully understands the threats that global warming pose? |
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| Such apprehension occurred under escort of four police officers and at which time D.C. made threats to the workers. |
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| Disobedience led to punishment, including beatings, imprisonment, blackmail, and death threats. |
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| Rogue states on Europe's periphery pose potential threats to European interests as much as or more than to U.S. interests. |
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| The former civil servant has endured beatings, solitary confinement and death threats while in prison. |
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| There is little doubt that these cases in particular have led to the numerous threats to her life. |
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| However, these measures were put in place to deal with potential threats to air travelers are geared to ensure passengers' safety. |
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| Both had made death threats against her before her desperate flight from the murder scene. |
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| A number of obsessed fans have stalked her in the UK and made threats against her. |
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| The company responded with a lockout and threats it would relocate production to Thailand. |
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| Afterwards, in the BBC's Green Room, she apparently rowed back on the threats issued to the corporation. |
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| When it comes down to threats of physical violence against people who are doing their jobs, that is something we roundly condemn. |
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| While a U.S. consultant has never been killed, there have been loud protests and death threats against some. |
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| This compromise I would not make, not for love or money or threats of a lonely old age. |
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| After appearing on the programme he was subjected to a series of death threats. |
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| A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures. |
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| Exclusive romantic attachments were broken up as threats to group stability. |
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| In the fight against cronyism, Malaysian economist Jomo has endured public attacks, lawsuits and death threats. |
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| He doesn't deserve threats and abuse along these lines from a bunch of lunatics denouncing our democratic process. |
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| Accurate statistics are hard to come by, especially in a country where social taboos and threats keep many victims silent. |
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| They lash out with trash talk and threats and constant references to their own resolve because they are afraid. |
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| One old school manager described a half-time talk that involved choice words and threats of violence. |
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| Legal norms are generally backed by threats, which can ultimately be carried out by the state in its police role. |
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| The phased array radar provides instantaneous beam steering which gives the advantage of vast reaction time against airborne threats. |
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| I began to receive various threats, which included reporting me to the Law Society. |
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| A pensioner has been forced out of his home in Portlaoise after becoming the target for verbal abuse and threats from a neighbour. |
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| They were armed with air-to-air missiles only, and were tasked with destroying airborne threats. |
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| Sikh elders have appealed to the community and asked that the death threats be withdrawn. |
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| But a brush with the new authorities can mean a familiar encounter over identity cards and threats. |
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| How many taunts, threats or downright abusive remarks have been reluctantly swallowed with a fatalistic shrug? |
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| So she tried suicide threats, guilt trips, manipulation, and even death threats. |
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| The threats of malaria and diarrhoeal diseases will only further increase with the onset of rains. |
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| The instruction was backed by veiled threats that their careers would be at risk if they did not comply. |
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| His house is under constant surveillance and he has received numerous death threats. |
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| It is certainly typical of the threats and personal attacks which now characterise the three-way bid battle. |
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| The inspectors had received repeated death threats from landlords who objected to government inspections. |
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| In many countries policemen use sexual harassment and threats of rape as an interrogation tactic. |
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| When you get arrested, you are forced by beatings, torture and threats to confess to crimes you didn't commit. |
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| Doing so would make it easier to find the criminals and to take the measure of any systemic threats. |
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| In the current national military strategy, transnational threats are of prime importance. |
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| There may be a significant tie-in here between the looming war with Iraq and the threats we're picking up in intelligence intercepts. |
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| Vetoes, threats of vetoes, and government shutdowns kept most anti-environmental measures from becoming law. |
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| Death threats, police escorts and a lifetime of shame are sadly the result of his honest mistake. |
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| The row occurred because of the claimant's complaint about the barking dog and his threats to take action about it. |
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| There were threats, and he would come home crying about all the meanness in the world. |
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| The ship's sensors detect incoming threats, which the command system then analyses and evaluates. |
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| Death threats sent by others are being taken seriously as intent to kill the men on their release. |
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| Indeed, there was some evidence in this case that he had made threats of harm to others. |
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| In its most vividly political form, dancers mime movements from the hunt as they chant joyful threats at police holding machine guns. |
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| The conviction makes clear the fact that this offence can be committed by threats, as well as by the use of violence. |
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| There have been claims the players want to withdraw from the controversial fixture after receiving death threats. |
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| Terrorism has long been included on the list of so-called new transnational threats to state security. |
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| What is the director of homeland security for, other than to announce threats to homeland security? |
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| We are bombarded with the big mouth attitude and threats and acts of terrorists constantly now. |
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| Freedom from physical threats and safe living conditions are the foundations of a dignified existence just as much as civic and human rights. |
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| What should we be doing to ensure vaccine safety and security against external threats? |
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| According to him however, Government has to guarantee security against international threats. |
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| This was one of the most ambitious threats from Norway and was aiming to establish maritime control over the western seaways. |
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| He was alleged to have forced the complainant by violence or threats to engage in sexual activity with him. |
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| But above and beyond these common threats, instant messaging and other chat programs carry their own unique set of risks. |
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| If anyone complains, they are met with a torrent of abuse or even physical threats. |
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| He was booked on suspicion of making threats with intent to terrorize and on suspicion of interfering with a person's civil rights. |
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| Since then, we have regularly been subjected to abuse and threats have been made to kill us. |
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| There's been a quantum jump in threats, but not a quantum jump in resources. |
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| This was only to be expected, and it was the mate and second mates' jobs to motivate them with threats and promises. |
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| The new threats were going to be diffuse, spread out, springing up wholly formed from unexpected quarters. |
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| The laser warner provides broadband laser frequency coverage to detect and display rangefinding, designating and missile guidance laser threats. |
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| White has started his kingside advance, while Black has yet to create his own threats on the queenside. |
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| The manual explicitly prohibits threats, coercion, physical abuse, and waterboarding, which creates the sensation of drowning. |
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| Finally, quid pro quos and veiled threats were utilized in an attempt to persuade. |
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| Two in five of those quizzed reckon their IT department will prevent them from falling victim to threats such as spyware and phishing. |
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| To an extent, higher speeds can also make aircraft more visible to radar and susceptible to threats. |
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| Those explosions are in addition to a number of bomb threats in the city each week. |
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| Effective background investigations, however, will screen out the most serious threats. |
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| Instead of focusing on the negative aspects of jobs moving overseas, we should be concentrating on turning any threats to our advantage. |
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| He also assured the president the organisation had no intention of holding the government to ransom with threats of violence. |
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| Ministers are also not required to become emotionally involved, or to throw down ultimatums, or to rattle sabers and make dire threats. |
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| Parents are furious that their children are being kept off school, and there have already been threats of legal action against the authority. |
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| It is understood there have been no threats of legal action against them from the victims' families. |
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| Approximately how many were carjackings, or incidents that involved threats, aggravation or violence? |
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| Meanwhile, wilding white youths combed the area terrorizing any black people they encountered with racial slurs and threats. |
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| More recent viruses and blended threats also extract passwords, decryption keys and logged keystrokes. |
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| Bravery also requires recognizing when standing up to these threats is reasonable and appropriate, and it requires acting on one's recognition. |
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| They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used. |
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| Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited. |
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| And the Republican Congress did respond to veto threats by the president and recalibrated their bills and brought them down. |
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| In a world with only one remaining superpower, even small and materially poor states and groups can pose terrible threats. |
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| This new situation leads to a reconsideration of national security risks and threats. |
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| Mr Hackett said the defendant then left the house making threats to petrol bomb it and to kneecap his family. |
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| He is not known for making idle threats, and his words very quickly manifest themselves as deeds. |
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| This year's price reductions have only come about because of meaningful threats from the regulator. |
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| In agreeing to the truce, union leaders knuckled under to company threats to close its operations. |
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| The building society had to agree to re-employ Martin before threats were lifted by Kelly. |
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| It is the idea of responding to networked threats through a networked world order. |
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| Consequently and unfortunately, Korean Muslims and mosques continue to receive threats. |
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| The authorities now react to alleged threats with the worst-case outcome in mind, rather than taking a sober assessment of a situation. |
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| But despite the favorable atmosphere, police remained on alert for possible security threats on the session, the officer said. |
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| I can stop this only if you are willing to talk to me calmly and sort out everything without threats. |
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| Yet once outside threats were removed the Kurds began fighting among themselves. |
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| The atmosphere is tense and edgy, and the political slogans on the posters read like threats. |
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| New pressures and threats, however, keep coming up with alarming regularity. |
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| In addition, this official explained, the information lacks context and does not prioritize threats. |
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| After yet more threats and a hard yank on the arm she walked out of her cell and was led to the Ceremony Room. |
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| There is more to be said, particularly about the threats of relativism, nihilism, and scepticism, which still lurk. |
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| He told the packed court that none of the incidents had been accompanied by aggressive behaviour, bad language or threats of violence. |
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| Bringing things closer into sight is the first step in dealing with potential threats. |
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| Removability is a key requirement in data protection to physically isolate the information from threats. |
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| Five dissident Iranian authors have been assassinated over the last two years following repeated death threats. |
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| For years these people have worked themselves into a lather about threats to our sovereignty from bureaucrats in Brussels. |
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| The country's belligerent veto threats seemed to signal its willingness to force grievous splits in the Security Council. |
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| He is always trying to sound reasonable even when he is making outrageous demands and launching threats. |
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| I think it would be a stunningly bad idea to give in to the threats of the anarchist tendency. |
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| The threats of the past have transformed into agreements of economic, cultural and scientific cooperation. |
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| The biggest threats come from malicious virus spreaders who can clog IT systems so effectively all traffic can come to a standstill. |
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| But I don't respond well to threats, and I was not going to let this schoolyard bully intimidate me. |
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| They have the responsibility to behave reasonably in the face of possible threats. |
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| In retaliation of the threats, Roseanne herself had threatened to leave the network, taking her highly-rated series with her. |
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| Zusi, who was not deposed for trial, denies that he ever made such threats or encouraged anyone to use accounting legerdemain to manage earnings. |
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| Families are distressed by the anorexic behavior, which resists both entreaties and threats. |
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| King Solomon's alliances are seen here not as threats to the pristine Mosaic ethos but as props to the peace. |
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| There was yelling and posturing, but no threats of violence or physical contact. |
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| Indians had been shamefully treated, and they remained victims of threats, bribery, and fraud. |
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| The report will provide the most detailed and authoritative account so far of the manifold threats to Scotland's wildlife. |
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| After habitat destruction, the spread of alien invasive species in our countryside is one of the most pervasive threats to our native plants. |
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| One of the biggest threats in modern medicine is bacterial resistance to antimicrobial agents. |
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| At the start, males usually called and displayed behavioral threats to each other. |
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| She would not say what the nature of the threats was, but she did confirm they were not death threats. |
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| Kevlar panels protects the occupants from close threats like rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles. |
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| Spyware is rife and virus infection commonplace yet many home users reckon they are safe from online threats. |
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| What is difficult to understand is why so much deference is paid to the threats from the Right. |
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| It records that he has an extensive criminal record, including threats, numerous failures to comply with recognizances and probation orders and three failures to appear. |
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| A good off-the-shelf anti-virus program is easy to install and will scan hard drives, diskettes, web files and e-mails to detect potential threats. |
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| He has seen off those challenges with the same disdain that he has seen off the death threats, court appearances and kiss-and-tell stories that have plagued his private life. |
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| The Arab world exploded with fatwas against the illustrator, who continues to face death threats. |
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| These scenes also show how sheltered they are from experiencing the world outside their plush self-created one, as the threats are mostly isolated safely in dreams. |
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| No kind of threats, cajoling or convincing can get a line-man to scamper up an electric post or poke at a blown fuse when it is raining cats and dogs. |
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| University president David Skorton and other school officials condemned the threats but said they have no immediate plans to redo the locker room. |
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| Without a means of multispectral band discrimination, there exists significant risk that targets will be missed and threats to both people and vehicles not detected. |
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| Doubtless that is true, but the threats must be real, not fictions. |
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| As an army brat myself, I am proud of the achievements of our men and women in the armed services, who have saved us from dire threats to our liberty. |
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| And her denials and legal threats are faithfully modeled after the de rigueur motions of past sex-tape shock-feigning stars. |
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| The problem, though, is that this advice presumes that death threats are rare and abnormal. |
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| The constant disinformation, distraction, misdirection, confabulation, and endless stream of threats actually works. |
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| When he emerged from the house, Constable Dimatulac placed Mr. Lloyd under arrest for being unlawfully in a dwelling house and for uttering threats. |
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| Especially not by the faceless boogymen that spew threats with no accountability. |
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| Still, DHS has shied away from publicizing these homegrown threats despite such compelling data. |
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| In September, Francis told the Swiss Guard and the gendarme that the only real threats the Vatican faces are from within. |
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| The threats may be goading Iran to pour greater effort into its nuclear program, to rush toward creating a weapon more quickly. |
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| By 1984, under threats from the Communist regime that had seized the country, Dr. Samar and her family fled to Quetta, Pakistan. |
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| There is, from year to year, a sameness to the dire threats from Pyongyang. |
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| If the amount of the reporting is out of whack with the reality of the threats, then one place to begin is by better matching the former to the latter. |
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| Dave taunted the crowd with threats and obscenities, and finally soaked them with lurid synthetic bodily fluids. |
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| And this time, the United States refrained from making the direst of unkeepable threats. |
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| Well, Anita Sarkeesian was driven from her home by death threats, as was Zoe Quinn. |
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| Were there protest marches, mass donnings of tricorn hats, nullification threats from states regarding federal legislation? |
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| It is often assumed that the reason why the university put a stop to its plans to build a research centre in 2004 is because of the threats by animal rights activists. |
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| To the average person this means fuel-burning furnaces, ovens, water heaters, clothes dryers, refrigerators, or even fire places are potential threats. |
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| But if the threats and saber-rattling are going to be effective, Chamillionaire has to take his burnished, easy flow and start putting some specifics in it. |
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| Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement? |
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| Vlad Burlutskiy is a civic and political activist from Russia who fled the country last year due to increasing threats. |
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| The voter would leave the poll to the jeers and threats of those who disapproved of his answer, but fortified by thoughts of the feast to come from his grateful patrons. |
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| Anyone who tries to draw attention to threats instead of quietly burying them is worsening the problem. |
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| Among these are obscenity, defamation, fighting words, express incitement to unlawful conduct, and threats. |
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| We, as outsiders, do not know if they fought over this, if tears were shed, if threats were made, if their nights were filled with worry and dread. |
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| The kind of verbal threats the civil law considers wrongful are those that unconditionally threaten immediate bodily harm. |
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| In the beginning, the Hornets were armed with air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons, but military officials quickly realized there were no airborne threats. |
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| The strong-jawed fish will also gorge themselves on zebra mussels, an invasive species that is currently considered one of the greatest threats to the Higgins eye. |
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| They were called La Red Avispa and claim to have successfully foiled a number of threats against the island. |
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| The amalgamation of zero-day threats, compliance demands, and still more problems pushes corporations to address the most pressing challenges first. |
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| Many minors report that curses, threats, and sometimes even beatings are customary during this experience. |
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| But no one went through with the arson threats that were bandied about back then, says Cummins. |
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| In the last three weeks, the Eiffel Tower has been evacuated twice for bomb threats. |
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| Spam zombies are part of a new generation of Internet-borne threats. |
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| This is a worrisome phenomenon, especially as major health threats like avian and swine flu grow in importance. |
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| Others branded 22-year-old Stewart a harlot and the death threats began rolling in. |
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| We are not naive about the many threats and dangers there are today to world peace and security, nor about the urgent need to do something about them. |
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| On and offline, offenses ranged from awful Tinder messages to violent threats on Twitter to street stalking. |
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| Other schools have been shuttered because of attacks and threats stemming from the war that continues to engulf the country. |
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| Those threats also led security officials to enhance certain security measures last summer. |
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| Then we must address the threats Afghan women face, and ensure they have a meaningful role in talks about Afghanistan's future. |
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| So as the American troops depart, the Iraqis are not banding together to defend their country against external threats. |
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| Refusing to stay silent, tj has kept his own name despite repeated death threats from people he used to consider friends. |
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| True, not all of these threats can be explained by the machinations of a global organization known as al Qaeda. |
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| He stated that if the wide gap between the two major races continued to exist it could lead to serious threats to security and economic development. |
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| Like much of Madagascar's wildlife, lemurs are under serious threats. |
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| Bad farming practices, soil erosion, water abstraction, and the building of dam walls that prevent its upstream spawning migration are just some of the threats it faces. |
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| Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians. |
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| To others, he was a creative architect of US military strength, a perceptive analyst of the international scene, and an accurate anticipator of future threats. |
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| Despite his obvious personal interest in the revolution of 1399, he was also a vigorous defender of the English church from heresy and anticlerical threats. |
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| Instead he offered no comfort to a broken-hearted kid who was receiving death threats. |
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| The loss of parkland and threats to historic farm buildings and scheduled monuments suggest many cherished aspects of the region's character are at risk. |
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| Does it merely take a united family leveling threats all at once to exorcise some of the demonic powers of addiction? |
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| Although he had received many death threats, he didn't want bodyguards, didn't wear a bullet proof vest and didn't remove his name from the telephone book. |
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| For her efforts, Spangler receives a torrent of hate mail and death threats. |
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| Bagaza called for the expulsion of all Italian priests and missionary workers, but those who stayed received death threats. |
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| As the Israel-Palestine conflict drags on, it blocks the resolution of urgent crises and intensifies looming threats to the West. |
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| Another lawyer who represents LGBTI clients has received similar threats. |
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| And yet, a decade into a new century, this old architecture is buckling under the weight of new threats. |
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| In their campaign, Dimon and Chase deployed the full range of tactics, ranging from cajoling to threats. |
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| Oddly, though, Americans are not fearful enough when it comes to real threats. |
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| The sceptical possibilities, and the threats they pose to our knowledge, depend upon our knowing things mediately, through or by way of something else. |
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| Those threats prompted Lozoya to move her family to California for a time until things cooled down, she said in an interview. |
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| He abhors anything that adds to the cost of doing business, and politicians who show insufficient urgency about tackling the wider threats to business. |
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| The contemporary world abounds with threats and dangerous divisions. |
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| Yet behind the scenes, the whips' office is making all sorts of threats in a bid to persuade them not to gut the Bill and turn it into an outright ban. |
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| The biggest threats on the websites are in the form of malvertising. |
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| In other instances, CIA recruiters used thinly veiled threats to coerce their cooperation. |
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| Issues covered include the changing nature of malware, the growing prevalence of Trojan horses and the emergence of new threats such as ransomware. |
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| Matters escalated from there, with threats of a strike and a lockout making headlines throughout the summer. |
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| The U.S. responded to security threats with cool heads and plenty of expertise in WWII and the cold war. |
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| The recipient of occasional death threats, malkin has twice felt the need to move her family to undisclosed locations. |
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| The main threats are probably the re-alignment of riverbanks and removal of riverside trees, but water pollution and river dredging are also serious problems. |
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| First, the cheap shot threats that might have intimidated other victims and their lawyers don't faze me. |
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| We respond to dangers that our ancestors equipped us to understand, like fire and fangs and claws, more readily than we respond to threats based on abstract reasoning. |
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| On Twitter and in Facebook pages ISIS was making appeals as well as threats, attracting recruits and soliciting funding online. |
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| Police arrested Brooks under a little-known Nevada law that prohibits threats, direct or indirect, against a public officer. |
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| They can claim that Sonia backed down in the face of their threats. |
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| Despite the expected traffic jams, potential electrical brown-outs and terrorist threats, modern Olympians and spectators have it easy, compared to their ancient counterparts. |
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| By sheer bloody-mindedness we went through with the law suits, despite threats from the investor, and were recently told we had won our case in the supreme court. |
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| On past occasions complaining to the litterbugs has evoked abuse, threats, or silence and it normally makes little sense then to phone any enforcement officer. |
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| Regrading the threats of hot pursuit, he cautioned adventurists that Pakistan was not aMyanmar. |
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| She received loads of hate mail and even threats on her life. |
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| She ignored their threats and continued to do what she felt was right. |
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| He was willing to use violence and threats to get what he wanted. |
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| At the fiesta, the kids beat the stuffing out of the pinata, and their parents beat the stuffing out of a drunk who walked up and made threats. |
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| Without a change of countenance, as if he were deaf to her entreaties and threats, he tuned up the banjo, and played a breakdown. |
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| Real cat fights are rare in established clowders. So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats. |
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| Jeffersonians decried lawyers and their common law tradition as threats to the new republic. |
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| These laws were used shrewdly in levying fines upon those that he perceived as threats. |
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| Serious disputes involving the use of personal power, or threats to royal authority, were thus dealt with. |
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| After 1570, the Algonquians consolidated under Chief Powhatan in response to threats from these other groups on their trade network. |
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| Thus deprived of French dynastic backing after 1697, Jacobites posed no further serious threats during William's reign. |
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| Metternich's motivation was to maintain France as a balance against Russian threats, while ending the highly destabilizing series of wars. |
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| In January 1924, the first Labour Government had taken office amid fears of threats to the Constitution. |
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| Vertical takeoffs and landings are riskier because of threats such as foreign object damage. |
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| The most common of all malware threats is SQL injection attacks against websites. |
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| He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until Henry's threats against the order obliged him to return to Sens. |
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| While unlikely to provide as much protection as a more complex castle, they offered security against raiders and other small threats. |
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| In 1971, Jacklin said that he received death threats from a caller who also threatened to bomb his wife's family home in Belfast. |
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| The 1997 Grand National was postponed after two coded bomb threats were received from the Provisional Irish Republican Army. |
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| In 1839, threats by the imperial court of Qing to sanction opium imports caused diplomatic friction with the British Empire. |
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| With increased external threats, the state's extractive capacities increase. |
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| These facilities were moved to eastern Germany, away from possible Allied threats. |
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| The ballistic missile threat is perceived to be less severe, and consequently less of a priority, than other threats to its security. |
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| The obvious benefit to a country in maintaining armed forces is in providing protection from foreign threats and from internal conflict. |
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| On 5 May 1935, Abdullah signed another treaty with the British government which granted Qatar protection against internal and external threats. |
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| As of 2014 Qatar retains the death penalty, mainly for threats against national security. |
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| Following the elections, however, the threats intensified once again but a galvanising event was needed. |
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| During a period of two weeks, threats intensified, culminating in NATO's Activation Order being given. |
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| Protection of the environment relates to threats such as flood and pollution. |
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| All the tribes signed the agreement to defend Medina from all external threats and to live in harmony amongst themselves. |
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| It also criminalised the communication of threats of serious violence and threats intended to incite religious hatred. |
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| The book explores the existence of, and threats to, indigenous cultures around the world. |
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| Connery later recounted that he had to lie low for a while after receiving threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen. |
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| The crews are also trained to deal with situations such as bomb threats, hijacking, and terrorist activities. |
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| Human impact threatens many species, with greater threats expected as a result of climate change induced by greenhouse gases. |
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| However, Lord Ismay prevailed that he should use 'hurt feelings' rather than threats to persuade Jinnah for partition. |
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| These threats may have speeded a long term process of gaelicisation of the Pictish kingdoms, which adopted Gaelic language and customs. |
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| In some countries, there are threats of violence against those who vote, such as during the 2005 Iraq elections, an example of voter suppression. |
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| Freed from English threats, Scotland's armies could now invade northern England. |
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| These include various types of recreation and the associated trampling damage and erosion, disturbance, litter and threats to water quality. |
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| Some threats still remain, notably illegal persecution by gamebird shooting and egg thieves in Scotland. |
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| Woodland habitat loss and management and a warming climate are seen as material threats to their future status. |
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| Besides drive hunting, they also face threats from bycatch, habitat loss, and marine pollution. |
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| In South America, feral dogs, jaguar, anacondas, and spectacled bears are threats to livestock. |
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| Other fans resorted to abuse and threats, causing writer James Moran to fire off an angry missive in a blog post. |
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| Opponents say that nuclear power poses many threats to people and the environment, and that costs do not justify benefits. |
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| The threats to their survival is loss of nesting habitat, direct harvest of the eggs and adults, and getting caught in fishing gear. |
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| Human action presents both intentional and unintentional threats to the species' survival. |
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| Intentional threats include continued hunting, poaching and egg harvesting. |
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| Little Oliver's blood ran cold, as he listened to the Jew's words, and imperfectly comprehended the dark threats conveyed in them. |
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| The threats faced by seabirds have not gone unnoticed by scientists or the conservation movement. |
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| Other threats include ingestion of marine debris, ocean noise, and chemical pollution. |
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| Besides hunting, pinnipeds also face threats from accidental trapping, marine pollution, and conflicts with local people. |
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| The primary threats to cetaceans come from people, both directly from whaling or drive hunting and indirect threats from fishing and pollution. |
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| More recently, the main threats are hunting, including subsistence hunting, and bycatch. |
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| Regional threats include the drainage of wetlands and increasing disturbance in southern Africa. |
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| In the absence of substantial threats or evidence of declines across its range, its conservation status is assessed as being of Least Concern. |
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| They are particularly vulnerable to overexploitation and other threats, including pollution and habitat fragmentation. |
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| During the 20th century, Cherbourg, a strategic point during both world wars, adapted to new threats. |
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| Both scenarios are significant threats to life, property and infrastructure. |
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| The Vikings raided places along the coastline of England and France, with the greatest threats being in England. |
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| Mining busy shipping straights and mining shipping harbors remain some of the most serious threats. |
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| The Mandans maintained the stockade around Mitutanka Village when threats were present. |
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| This isolation poses one of the greatest threats to the future survival of the grizzly bear in the contiguous United States. |
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| Different from dozens of other palenques that were vanquished, this community has successfully fended off threats to its existence to this day. |
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| During such fights, red foxes will stand on each other's upper bodies with their forelegs, using open mouthed threats. |
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| The major environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling. |
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| To avoid underwater threats, it can leap above the surface onto mats of weed. |
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| Because of its complex life cycle, the species face a broad range of threats, some of which are specific to certain growth stage. |
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| Fisheries are one of the major threats to the biodiversity of the Agulhas Bank. |
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| Turtles face many threats, including habitat destruction, harvesting for consumption, and the pet trade. |
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| The most serious threats to this form of marsh are the increasing size and pollution of the cities surrounding them. |
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| It was begun in 1551 as part of a major phase of fortification on the Isles of Scilly, undertaken to counter threats from the French. |
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| In 1960, Ronnie Kray was imprisoned for 18 months for running a protection racket and related threats. |
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| The next requirement comes as a fairly basic need for the military to identify possible threats it may be called upon to face. |
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