On matters ranging from immigration to national security, the result has been for President Obama to threaten a greater reliance on executive orders to overcome congressional paralysis.
It is a matter of national security, which is threatened by our reliance on oil.
As the ubiquity of facile commentary spreads by way of -- though not necessarily because of -- blogs and a democratized publishing sphere, criticism can count among the developments threatening its extinction the waning reliance on its ever-more-distant academic cousin.
A rush to build incinerators to burn waste and break the UK's reliance on landfill is threatening the country's commitment to increase its recycling rates.
ZERKOH, Afghanistan, May 9 — Scores of civilian deaths over the past months from heavy American and allied reliance on airstrikes to battle Taliban insurgents are threatening popular support for the Afghan government and creating severe strains within the NATO alliance.
Another aspect threatening centres' survival, the minister was told, is their over-reliance on emergency, short-term funding from the victims fund due to a lack of reliable core funding either at central or local government level.
However, the growth of marine aquaculture is threatened by its excessive reliance on fishmeal (FM) and fish oil (FO) from wild stocks for the production of fish feeds, which is also an ecologically unsound practice.
Moreover, since Darwinian theory provides the resources for a purely causal account of teleology, wherever it is manifested, its reliance on the concept of 'fitness' makes it imperative that conceptual problems threatening the explanatory legitimacy of this notion be solved.
With respect to the propensity interpretation of fitness, Rosenberg and Bouchard state that evolutionary theory's "reliance on the concept of 'fitness' makes it imperative that conceptual problems threatening the explanatory legitimacy of this notion be solved".
With respect to the propensity interpretation of fitness, Rosenberg and Bouchard (2008) state that evolutionary theory's "reliance on the concept of 'fitness' makes it imperative that conceptual problems threatening the explanatory legitimacy of this notion be solved".
