Sentence examples for prevailing threat from inspiring English sources

In the biographical passages, Drabble provides the rather bleak particulars of her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast, where Aunt Phyl sold pillowcases onto which she'd sewn rickrack borders, and of her parents' comfortable house, where boredom was the prevailing threat.

As it turned out, he couldn't spare the time, because he was writing a novel set in the summer of America's "purity binge, when terrorism — which had replaced communism as the prevailing threat to the country's security — was succeeded by cocksucking".

Quote Message: Western counter-terrorism officials had recently come round to the conclusion that while there were still people aspiring to such grand-scale attacks, the prevailing threat was more likely to come from 'self-starters', people like the murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich near London in 2013.

We can overcome the prevailing threat of obesity, but first, do need to stop overlooking it under our own roofs.

Mrs. Schaeffer wrote more than two dozen books, including "Hidden Art" (1971) and "What Is a Family?" (1975), describing her vision of women's domestic role in the battle with secular humanism and declining morality, as fundamentalist Christians defined the prevailing threats to humanity in the postwar world.

A new report from Cylance reveals some of the trends and prevailing threats businesses and individuals should be watching for.

There is a prevailing legal threat unleashed through the GDPR, however, there are aspects of it that some argue that may indeed stifle innovation.

In order to mitigate the prevailing connotations of threat and uncertainty that future tends to awake in us, we can actively improve our everyday futures thinking into futures orientation and further, futures consciousness [16].

This model may have applicability in Namibia and similar regions elsewhere with low population densities, high species endemism and prevailing or emerging threats to biodiversity.

The Internet Security Threat Report 2014 [4] reports that cybercrimes are prevailing and damaging threats from cybercriminals still emerge over businesses and customers.

The latest group to feel the sting of culture and tradition being used against them are millions of LGBTI people, whose claims for equality are frequently blocked on the basis they pose a so-called threat to prevailing cultural and traditional values.