Sentence examples for threatening circumstances from inspiring English sources

USAid termed the attack "another tragic reminder of the life threatening circumstances that our Afghan and international partners face as they work to improve conditions".

Their stories are too spare, and most of them are impossibly wan figures who seem to be floating outside of time — even in "The English Patient," which treats the Second World War simply as the occasion for bringing exotic people together in threatening circumstances.

Unplanned HD was defined as any first HD begun on an emergency basis in life threatening circumstances requiring dialysis within 24 hours.

Miller [ 15– 17] has designated two main information preference styles in potentially threatening circumstances: monitoring (seeking out and attending to threatening information), and blunting (avoiding threatening information and cognitively distracting from it).

Like Hope, he was usually paired with a more inward character who loves to sing (Daffy Duck is Bugs's Bing, though blustery rather than cool), and, like Hope, his appeal rises entirely from the limitless brashness and self-confidence with which he approaches even the most threatening circumstances.

For professionals in military and law enforcement domains, learning to regulate one's emotions under threatening circumstances is crucial.

Ryan co-sponsored the Sanctity of Life Act enshrining a fertilized egg with the definition of "personhood" and supported a bill Democrats nicknamed the "Let Women Die Act," which would have let hospitals that get federal money deny women abortions even in life-threatening circumstances.

In Washington, where "family values" is a slogan frequently at odds with the practice of actually valuing families, the anguish of women like Coreen Costello, who was forced, because of life-threatening circumstances, to undergo the procedure, is being drowned out in a clash of ideologies.

Despite fear and life-threatening circumstances, individuals continue to create civil society in the midst of destruction.

The peripheral ANS is well structured to provide the physiologic responses critical for homeostasis and acute adaptations to stressful, perhaps life-threatening, circumstances.

Also relevant here is the fact that similar experiences sometimes happen to persons who mistakenly believe themselves to be in life-threatening circumstances.