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The reason they're often subject to various kinds of surgeries is because they threaten our social categories.
The Tasmanian devil has shown us that, not only can cancer be a contagious disease, but it can also threaten an entire species with extinction.
So if you threaten to use it, people are going to comply with it.
And the world certainly does not need the largest toxic impoundments to grow and multiply and further threaten the downstream communities.
The tar sands could threaten not just a large section of the boreal.
And unlike the juicy salif, it does not threaten to attach itself to your brain, rather, it simply attaches itself to your brain.
We could be intervening much more aggressively into dangerously dysfunctional homes, and getting kids out of them before their moms pick up butcher knives and threaten to kill them.
But there have always been, in Islam, a small group, a minority, who believe that jihad is not only an internal struggle but also an external struggle against forces that would threaten the faith, or the faithul.
When he was threatened by the thugs of the Argentine military junta, he came back and said, "Oh, come on, how else can you threaten, other than with death?"
The interesting thing, the original thing, would be to threaten somebody with immortality.
But more importantly, though, in the history of that region, it's served, it's had a real strategic function, and that is, it is the means by which hostile armies on the coastal plain find their way, get up into the mountains and threaten those living in the mountains.
If they're not taking away trash efficiently and effectively every day, it starts to spill out of its containments, and the dangers inherent to it threaten us in very real ways.
And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction?
It's a super-toxic process, producing pollutants that enter the global ecosystem, build up in fatty tissue and threaten the top of the food chain.
But what I am saying is that we must challenge these Muslim fundamentalist movements because they threaten human rights across Muslim-majority contexts, and they do this in a range of ways, most obviously with the direct attacks on civilians by the armed groups that carry those out.
So here are some of the things which maybe threaten the social web we have.
Thomas, I want to ask you two or three questions, because it's impressive how you're in command of your data, of course, but basically what you suggest is growing wealth concentration is kind of a natural tendency of capitalism, and if we leave it to its own devices, it may threaten the system itself, so you're suggesting that we need to act to implement policies that redistribute wealth, including the ones we just saw: progressive taxation, etc.
In case after case I've studied, employers have no problem calling on law enforcement to try and threaten or deport their striking trafficked workers.
So what they do is they take the connection to the addict, and they threaten it, they make it contingent on the addict behaving the way they want.
And I didn't really want to jump over these hurdles, because they seemed completely arbitrary, so I often wouldn't, and then people would threaten me, you know, they'd threaten me with this "going on [my] permanent record," or "You'll never get a good job."
We also need to do a better job at being able to figure out which are the diseases that most threaten us.
These bugs are going to continue to evolve and they're going to threaten the world.
They'll be infected with bacteria, they will explode and those bacteria will threaten the life of this one embryo that has a chance.
But in the last decade, we've seen the combined effects of climate change, population growth and competition for water resources threaten these vital lifelines and water resources.
He eventually left without getting physically violent, but the knowledge that we were breaking the law empowered that man to threaten us.
The vast majority of civilians, like that young baby, who are dying in war zones around the world, are dying at the hands of various armed groups who rely on a near-infinite supply of cheap, easy and efficient weapons to rape, threaten, intimidate and brutalize those civilians at every turn.
This gives us a unique perspective on what machines can do, what they can't do and what jobs they might automate or threaten.
I paid attention only when you began to vote and shout, and when your voting and shouting, when the substance of it, began to threaten me.
He got the police in Ghana to show up with a crane and threaten to board the ship, and it wasn't until the navy officers drew their weapons that they called off the operation.
After looking at lab reports and working, studying this issue both in the courtroom and in research settings, I've dissected all the different things that can go wrong with our memories that can really threaten your case.
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