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Radical feminism is still threatening.
Mary Daly
Feminism
Radical
Threatening
Still
It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.
Michael Haneke
People
World
Perception
Seen
Unknown
Everything
Danger
Weakened
Outer
Outer World
Threatening
Potential
Physically
Mentally
Fact
Unexpected
Whether
Who
Position
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
Michael McCaul
Agriculture
Year
Increasingly
Extremely
Range
Destructive
Has-Been
High
Threatening
Winds
Lead
Fires
Simply
Drought
Adverse
Adverse Conditions
Industry
Continuing
Been
Conditions
Texas
Hit
Hard
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.
Michael Palin
Me
People
Better
Thought
Before
Other
Input
Tell
Threatening
Write
Had
Without
Been
Any
So Many People
Autobiography
Story
Asking
Many
Biography
Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.
Mike Barnicle
Work
Service
Freedom
People
Dangerous
Sometimes
Threatening
Protect
Industry
Conditions
Often
Interesting
Deprive
Us
Serve
Sworn
Belong
Cops
Basically
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad are two sides of the same terror coin. Letting Assad continue to wield lethal power means that Tehran's terror network - from Hezbollah to the Houthis - will persist in threatening the West.
Mike Pompeo
Will
Power
Sides
Tehran
Threatening
Network
Terror
Continue
West
Iran
Persist
Same
Means
Lethal
Letting
Two
Coin
Wield
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
Nathan Myhrvold
You
People
Important
Find
Threatening
Doing
Very
Then
DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
Norman Finkelstein
Me
Few
Nothing
Virtues
Faults
Destroyed
Plot
Threatening
Fact
Attacked
Had
Tenure
Although
Because
Still
Deny
Ironically
In Fact
Which
Found
Career
Number
All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
Parker Harris
Needs
Business
Become
Every
Apps
Enterprise
Horizon
Threatening
Netflix
Driving
Leaders
Industry
Business Leaders
App
Company
Usual
Now
Disruption
Need
While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
Peter A. Levine
Events
Stress
Nervous
System
Threatening
Nervous System
Studying
Most
Began
Effects
Accumulate
Suspect
While
Capacity
Organisms
Rebound
Innate
Stressful
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
Peter Higgs
Out
Would
Threatening
Withdraw
Were
Scotland
Want
Certainly
Europe
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
Peter Tork
Music
Time
Situation
Other
Plots
Threatening
Comedies
Were
Sitcom
Same
Straight
Used
Monkees
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray Dalio
You
People
Rich
Other
Threatening
Throat
Becomes
Left
Very
Get
Breakdown
Poor
Each
Right
Basic
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets.
Raymond E. Feist
Good
Me
Book
Money
Pay
Kind
Threatening
Good Thing
Write
Mortgage
Tickets
Offering
Refuse
Fantasy
Keep
Season
Thing
I do not know of a Chinese blogger who has gone to jail, but I know several who have had their blogs shut down. I also know some Chinese bloggers who have received threatening phone calls from police warning them to 'be careful.' In some cases, they stopped blogging for a while.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Phone
Police
Gone
Down
Several
Phone Calls
Be Careful
Threatening
Some
Cases
Had
Know
Also
Calls
Bloggers
Blogging
Blogs
Jail
Stopped
While
Chinese
Them
Warning
Who
Shut
Received
Careful
Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.
Rebecca Solnit
Work
War
People
World
Better
Will
Better World
Beauty
Build
Everywhere
Threatening
Some
Forces
Survive
Which
To Survive
Us
Planet
Guaranteed
The neighbor's kid was bullying my kid. Crossing the line. Threatening him all the time. I went over there to tell him what was going on. I had on flip-flops. I wasn't there to fight. It was a misunderstanding between a couple of dudes where one thing led to another.
Rex Ryan
Time
Bullying
Fight
Kid
Neighbor
Tell
One Thing
Threatening
Crossing
Had
Between
Over
Couple
Him
Another
Misunderstanding
Dudes
Line
Led
Going
Where
Thing
When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.
Robert Crumb
Life
People
World
My Life
Live
Paper
Drawing
Threatening
Life-Threatening
Had
Well
Learn
Became
How
Real
Itself
Very
Real People
Just
Stop
The Real World
Real World
Younger
Much
Really
Lived
Cope
Consequence
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan
People
Oppression
Group
Characteristic
Latter
Threatening
Something
Shared
Another
Because
Against
Specifically
I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.
Roger Ailes
Remember
Try
Meet
Appropriate
Respond
Threatening
Threats
Give
Like
Well
Anybody
Doormat
Them
Communications
Ever
Level
America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.
Ron DeSantis
Needs
Class
Challenges
Generation
Culture
People
Safety
Opportunity
Country
Big
National
Our
Address
Our People
Significant
Security
Promoting
Threatening
Alleviating
Economic
Facing
Economic Opportunity
Leaders
New
New Generation
Issues
America
Squeeze
National Security
Reforming
Middle
Middle Class
Confronting
Washington
I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.
Roy Hodgson
People
Better
Think
Twitter
Way
Right Way
Out
Threatening
Except
Abuse
Perhaps
Knows
Odd
Go
Who
Many
Believes
Right
Even when a Geordie is trying to be nasty, it doesn't sound that threatening.
Sam Fender
Threatening
Sound
Nasty
Trying
Even
There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?
Sheila Heti
Woman
Will
Trouble
Threatening
About
Something
She
Make
Sort
Occupied
Children
Who
Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.
Sigmar Gabriel
Genocide
World
Collective
Country
Threatening
Only
Only Country
Part
Another
Erase
Iran
Map
Antiabortion rules disproportionately harm women of color and low-income women of every ethnicity, affecting their economic capacity and threatening their very lives.
Stacey Abrams
Women
Every
Rules
Threatening
Economic
Color
Affecting
Very
Capacity
Low-Income
Ethnicity
Lives
Disproportionately
Harm
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