Nor has it been acceptable the barely masked threats against President Barack Obama, a constant stream of verbal aggression so nasty that you wonder if someone wants to do total harm to his presidency, just because.
He may even steal the show for modern eyes with his lone tower at twilight, humped blue mountains in the distance, an intense clarity to close objects in the silver dusk, a last sail pricking the dark horizon: a picture of stillness masking threat.
Verbal aggression, as well as psychological pressure, appears masked as "threats of disciplinary procedures for negligence".
But beauty can't mask the threat facing its idyllic islands, 80% of which sit no more than 3.3 feet above sea level.
Months after the FBI announced its search for Gadahn, the CIA said it believed he was the menacing, masked figure making threats against the U.S. in an October 2004 Al Qaeda videotape.
The inclusion of these lineages into one widespread species that was considered to be capable of exploiting diverse habitats [ 29] clearly masked the real threats to these taxa.
On the other hand, Robles et al. (1987) found that masked threat- or joy-related stimuli inserted into a neutral movie influenced the subjects' self-reported affect, suggesting that invisible stimuli can modify phenomenal affective experience even in the presence of competing information.
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, said the drinks appeared to pose a serious public health threat because the caffeine masked the effects of the alcohol, leading to "a state of wide-awake drunk".
After years of threats and harassment, including masked protestors banging on his windows at night, Ringach shifted his research on the visual system to studies with human volunteers and theoretical work.
In the final issue of this mini-run of Lobster Johnson comics, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola's 1930s masked detective The Lobster faces a giant threat to NYC.
We designed a task during which a threat-related (physical threat, social threat, or height) word is presented with a neutral word (14 or 500 ms, masked), one above the other, and spatial correspondence of threat-related word and response varies across trials.
