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Now if I were to come to you face-to-face and come this close to you, you would feel threatened.
We threatened them.
We are mentally compressing our networks when we are being harassed, when we are being bullied, when we are threatened about losing a job, when we feel down and weak.
And that is the freedom of mobility that my great grandfather brought to people is now being threatened, just as the environment is.
Now when the Treasure sank in 2000, it was the height of the best breeding season scientists had ever recorded for the African penguin, which at the time, was listed as a threatened species.
80 percent of all amphibians are threatened and in come decline.
But it too is being threatened by the massive amount of water being drawn from the Athabasca, which feeds these wetlands, and also the incredible toxic burden of the largest toxic unlined impoundments on the planet, which are leaching in to the food chain for all the species downstream.
Some of the greatest densities of some of the most iconic and threatened species on the planet.
Now this was done to counter the annual celebration of rabbits and presumably make the public more comfortable with the killing of rabbits and promote an animal that's native to Australia, and actually an animal that is threatened by the European rabbit.
Because I figured if I made it funny, you wouldn't be as threatened.
And Limor designed this, in part, because, like Carol, she felt threatened by GPS tracking.
They go on to jam innocent GPS receivers for miles around you. (Laughter) Now, if you're Carol or Limor, or someone who feels threatened by GPS tracking, it might not feel wrong to turn on a Wave Bubble, but in fact, the results can be disastrous.
Democracy has suffered obvious setbacks in Venezuela, in Russia, in Turkey and is threatened by the rise of authoritarian populism in Eastern Europe and the United States.
Admittedly, his first wife cited in her divorce papers that he once threatened her with a knife and said he always wondered what human flesh tasted like, but people say stupid things to each other in bad marriages in the heat of an argument, and his second marriage has lasted 41 years.
But if any one of these three gets shaky, if any one of these three wobbles, trust is threatened.
When we were ancient man — (Laughter) — millions of years ago, and we suddenly felt threatened by a predator, okay?
Also, the fact that he threatened to sue me because I got a leak of his leaks, I thought that showed a remarkable sort of inconsistency in ideology, to be honest, as well.
My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar, and he had developed a firm stance against corruption, even though he was harassed and threatened.
It's been estimated in the U.S., in a tiny colony of big brown bats, that they will feed on over a million insects a year, and in the United States of America, right now bats are being threatened by a disease known as white-nose syndrome.
Bats are also threatened in the U.S. by their attraction to wind farms.
Vultures are amongst the most threatened group of birds.
We have eight species of vultures that occur in Kenya, of which six are highly threatened with extinction.
The man who I loved more than anybody on Earth held a gun to my head and threatened to kill me more times than I can even remember.
Even though he held those loaded guns to my head, pushed me down stairs, threatened to kill our dog, pulled the key out of the car ignition as I drove down the highway, poured coffee grinds on my head as I dressed for a job interview, I never once thought of myself as a battered wife.
The reptilian part of our brain, which sits in the center of our brain, when it's threatened, it shuts down everything else, it shuts down the prefrontal cortex, the parts which learn, it shuts all of that down.
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?"
And that, of course, is what we are all now threatened with today because of electronic tattoos.
When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money.
And many of these species are threatened because of too much fishing and bad management.
So for example, voices which threatened to attack my home I learned to interpret as my own sense of fear and insecurity in the world, rather than an actual, objective danger.
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