Threat
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Like Jennifer Odem's sculpture of tables standing sentinel on the banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, guarding against the
threat
of post-Katrina floodwaters and rising up against adversity, we too have the ability to act affirmatively and affect positive change.
There's something called a "stereotype threat," and what it says is that individuals of a particular group internalize and react to the negative stereotypes associated with that group.
If our brains are just as subject to data tracking and aggregation as our financial records and transactions, if our brains can be hacked and tracked like our online activities, our mobile phones and applications, then we're on the brink of a dangerous
threat
to our collective humanity.
And then see how it disperses this other group, who are teenagers, with the
threat
of an autonomously issued injunction.
I was brought up in the 1970s near Wembley with Asian, English, Caribbean, Irish families living in our street, and the neo-Nazi National Front was massive then with regular marches and attacks on us and a permanent
threat
and often a frequent reality of violence against us on the streets, in our homes, typically by neo-Nazis and other racists.
Somehow they were able to experience their circumstances not as a
threat
day in and day out but as a challenge, and this has led to a very important insight for all of us: we have control over the way we age all the way down into our cells.
If you're habitually a negative thinker, you typically see a stressful situation with a
threat
stress response, meaning if your boss wants to see you, you automatically think, "I'm about to be fired," and your blood vessels constrict, and your level of the stress hormone cortisol creeps up, and then it stays up, and over time, that persistently high level of the cortisol actually damps down your telomerase.
Unfortunately, the reality is, we are the giant clams' biggest
threat.
The largest clam in the world is facing the
threat
of extinction, with more than 50 percent of the wild population severely depleted.
It is too late now for Basil, but not for Magdalene, not for the hundreds of thousands, the millions still under
threat
in Lagos or any of our cities.
By morning, the gang leader arrived, checked out Sudhir, decided he was no threat, and they let him go home.
Agriculture currently covers 37% of Earth’s land area, posing the biggest
threat
to our regional water supplies.
I submitted to this under the
threat
of my younger sister being harmed.
I was paroled in June 2014, following my third hearing before a panel of former law-enforcement officials who were tasked with determining my current
threat
level to society.
Instead of a threat, his wife saw an omen– a fearsome power that would lead her husband to either glory or doom.
Sensing a threat, the octopus will rapidly change its colors to match its surroundings.
This bird sits atop tall trees in the Kalahari Desert, surveying the landscape for predators and calling when it senses a
threat.
It's not an exaggeration to say that a
threat
to the ozone layer is a
threat
to human safety.
It warns us of indignity, threat, insult and harm.
The
threat
is very serious."
I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones, and the rest of the people are pretty strange, (Laughter) especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis, where everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential
threat
and the most important issue of all, and yet they just carry on like before.
Every time we lead one of these efforts we have to whip ourselves into this imminent
threat
thing.
We haven't faced an imminent
threat
since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
It is to meet this
threat
that the Air Force has been developing SAGE, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system, to strengthen our air defenses.
Voice 1: You'll have to stay here in the safe house until we get word the terrorist
threat
is over.
And at the same time, his faculty with words led the FBI to view him as a
threat.
Now, there's a bigger question that's probably actually more important than that, is the notion of permanently eliminating the possibility of a nuclear attack, eliminating the
threat
altogether.
So I'm going to talk about a nuclear
threat
story in two chapters.
So the
threat
of my own destruction kept me from launching a nuclear attack on you.
So, what is a nuclear terror
threat?
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