Sentence examples for global security threat from inspiring English sources

First, the response to Ebola as a global security threat failed to produce a comprehensive mechanism to stop the outbreak.

Launching the inquiry, the Tory chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, Crispin Blunt, told the Guardian that the intervention and subsequent breakdown of the state had proved disastrous for Libya and posed a global security threat.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, was not naming names when he spoke on Thursday of his dismay that some of the international community's biggest players were not doing enough to combat what the World Health Organisation (WHO) terms a global security threat.

In the wake of last week's shooting rampage in Charleston, South Carolina, top US government officials are pointing to what they consider a rising global security threat: isolated, maladjusted people who latch on to extremist ideologies through the internet and air what might have been strictly personal grievances by committing mass murder.

A 2010 report by the US Institute of Peace, an independent, bipartisan research institution funded by Congress, warned that the US government's lack of attention to the growth of infectious viral diseases had contributed to a true global security threat.

"The proliferation of boy bands is quickly becoming the number one global security threat," said Professor Davis Logsdon, who has been studying the efforts of so-called rogue states to acquire homegrown boy bands.

Also on Tuesday, Mr. Annan announced the membership of a "high-level panel" to study global security threats and recommend changes.

They are tackling the economic crisis; building "resilience" in homeland security; dealing with global security threats by stabilising Iraq and Afghanistan and halting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; spreading democratic stability across Europe; and keeping "a habitable planet".

Time Change? Read this overview of the Doomsday Clock, which The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has used since 1947 to dramatize global security threats and the likelihood of nuclear war.

Amid budget cuts and shifting global security threats, the US has been forced to borrow equipment from other Nato members – including British helicopters – as the military alliance launches its largest exercise in Europe for 13 years.

The GOP made huge gains in 2014 in part by capitalizing on voter anxiety about global security threats.