Sentence examples for threatening environments from inspiring English sources

Turning to sociology, the literature indicates that threatening environments increase superstitious behaviour and strengthen commitment, communities, and attachment to ideologies.

Now it is used by the likes of the FBI and LAPD for reconnaissance before humans enter potentially threatening environments.

Those with fast-acting dopamine clearers are the Warriors, ready for threatening environments where maximum performance is required.

Sometimes, though, unequal power relations are also part of culture, and those who have little influence must inevitably cope with threatening environments (World Disaster Report 2014).

With the aim of explaining how peculiar human faculties might be inherited from the simplest adaptive abilities of animals, the animat approach is based on the conception or construction of simulated animals or robots capable of surviving in more or less unpredictable and threatening environments.

For example, in threatening environments where women are often negatively stereotyped -- such as a computer science course -- Dweck's studies have found women in a growth mindset are able to thrive because they accept struggling is just part of learning process.

"I had an uncanny moment of standing in this quite threatening environment," he said.

"I was living in a threatening environment, under their control, and I wanted to go home alive".

The Russians, far behind in industrial development and technological sophistication, were in a far more threatening environment.

"It was a very uncomfortable, threatening environment," said Alyse Larkin, 27, a former manager at the Roosevelt Field store.

"Even with this more threatening environment, it's not going to be easy at all," Mr. Kingston said.