Sentence examples for universal threat from inspiring English sources

Was inbreeding a universal threat?

As global temperatures have risen, the smoke from Third World kitchens has been upgraded from a local to a universal threat.

It seems that there is only one large, universal threat that all Americans need to be protected against, and that distributed risk assessment has been replaced by equality of fear.

What saves it is the second half, when these disparate elements of online culture are pulled together by Graham and presented as a universal threat to our very notions of personality.

The study of HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics has been of great interest to both applied mathematicians and biologists due to its universal threat to humanity.

"We also live in a cultural environment in which young black men are feared and seen as a sort of universal threat.

To the list of universal threats to football success — injury and indiscretion, a Tom Brady-led offense marching against your defense — the N.F.L. has added another: Twitter.

As electronic communications become more prevalent, mobile and universal, the threats of data compromises also accordingly loom larger.

In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6bn endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the "universal and existential" threat posed by climate change.

These studies have frequently used angry faces as stimuli because they are universal signals of threat and tend to evoke hostile feelings in the beholder, particularly when interpreted as a provocation (17); nonetheless, it is worth noting that experiencing angry feelings is different from processing angry faces.

It is situated in an area where the established interests of the great powers are pitted against those of rising regional powers, against the backdrop of a reemergence of blind religious fundamentalism, in the form of the Islamic State -- a serious menace to universal human rights and a threat to the principles and values of rationalism.