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And they call them a swellshark because if they're threatened, they can gulp down water and blow up like an inner tube, about twice their size, and wedge themselves under a rock, so they don't get eaten by a predator.
So another lab tried to offer the test, but the company that held the patents threatened to sue the lab for patent infringement.
They are becoming more compressed and more threatened.
When I first photographed Hanifaru, the site enjoyed no protection and was threatened by development.
The most basic obligation towards refugees is non-refoulement, a principle preventing a nation from sending an individual to a country where their life and freedom are threatened.
In a world that is threatened with climate change, we are a carbon neutral country.
It's a place where we don't feel threatened, or threatening.
So many sites in Peru are threatened, but the great part is that all of this data is going to be shared with archaeologists on the front lines of protecting these sites.
He had even threatened to kill me.
The empire was deep in decline when he came to power, and threatened from all sides: by the Seljuk Turks in the East, the Normans in the West, and Scythian raiders to the north.
We will continue to come together, like an army, when any member of our community is threatened.
In New Zealand, stoats introduced by European settlers have threatened many native species of flightless bird.
And so, naturally governments that feel threatened by these movements will also target the organizers and their smartphones.
Yusor felt particularly threatened by him.
He never is threatened by my sexuality, he never polices what I wear or how I act.
The past 500 years have seen 16 cases in which a rising power threatened to displace a ruling power.
Harvard's "Thucydides's Trap Case File" has reviewed the last 500 years of history and found 16 cases in which a rising power threatened to displace a ruling power.
Children, as we can only imagine, will feel worried, threatened and at risk.
We, as the global health community policy experts, our first job is to become experts in how to monitor the strengths and vulnerabilities of health systems in threatened situations.
And I would say to you that these are folks who, when our country was threatened, or our world was threatened, they didn't retreat.
We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions.
And the essential virtue of that people is always being threatened by outsiders.
They have a strong sense of entitlement, but are easily threatened or slighted.
When Ebola threatened to bring humanity to its knees, Liberia's community health workers didn't surrender to fear.
He was then threatened.
If not, our freedom of thought, access and control over our own brains and our mental privacy will be threatened.
So when you tell a story and your identity is strong, you can welcome the stranger, but when you stop telling the story, your identity gets weak and you feel threatened by the stranger.
He threatened to shoot me once when I played in the garden as a kid, and many weekends, shaven-headed National Front activists arrived at his house and emerged with scores of placards screaming that they wanted us to go back home.
Yes, and I clearly remember the feeling of fear and being threatened, and tension rising up between me and the interrogator when we talked about politics.
Most of the social and political leaders struggling and working for the betterment of their communities were threatened and targeted.
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