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The gravest environmental threat to Kazakhstan comes from radiation, especially in the Semey ( Semipalatinsk ) region of the northeast, where the Soviet Union tested almost 500 nuclear weapons, 116 of them above ground.
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Despite Uzbekistan's rich and varied natural environment, decades of environmental neglect in the Soviet Union have combined with skewed economic policies in the Soviet south to make Uzbekistan one of the gravest of the CIS's many environmental crises.
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*" Racism is man's gravest threat to man-the maximum hatred for a minimum reason.
Recognizing the reactionary classes in society as being the gravest threat to his position, Louis Bonaparte moved on 22 January 1852 to confiscate all the property of the House of Orléans.
Ironically, the gravest threat to the Ottoman empire's integrity that emerged was not from Russia, but from Egypt.
According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's public health.
Several sourcebooks present the Abyssals and the Deathlords as having a tentative foothold in Creation, likely representing its gravest threat.
With this in mind, Hitler viewed Russia as a nation of Untermenschen, who were dominated by their Judaic masters, and which posed the gravest threat to Germany and the whole of Europe.
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism will be the gravest threat to US national security in the 21st century.
The report further highlights the Commission's belief that this decline in emphasis on science and education is the gravest threat to US national security, even over weapons proliferation and terrorism.
This occupying force of about 500 soldiers and guerrillas, joined by the troops driven from the blockhouse on the bay, constituted the gravest threat to the U. S. base of operations.
Even in purest ignorance of such a bond, if the potentially offended party does not forgive the offender ’ s transgression, there would still be the gravest threat of those curses still being visited upon them, for ignorance does not excuse the interference.
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Under orders from Paris the French wasted the country far and wide, and this devastation with the sack of Türckheim usually counts as the gravest blot on Turenne's fame.
Knowledge, which had been acquired by philosophers through the evolution of several thousands of years, and after overcoming the gravest errors, had been bestowed upon Judaism from the beginning through revelation ( ib.
Alexandru George only supports in part this verdict, noting that Iorga's literary histories degenerated from " masterpiece " to " gravest mistake ".
" Her books do not celebrate British heroism nor the innocence of civilians, emphasising instead that the causes and dangers of war come as much from within as from without, with the gravest threats coming from fellow Britons.
Writing on immigrants from southern Italy, Hungary, Austria, and Russia in The Atlantic, Walker claimed, " The entrance into our political, social, and industrial life of such vast masses of peasantry, degraded below our utmost conceptions, is a matter which no intelligent patriot can look upon without the gravest apprehension and alarm.
gravest and where
In Roman Catholicism, where the host is held to have become the body of Jesus Christ, host desecration is among the gravest of sins.
gravest and nuclear
It began his discussion of the " war on terror " by asserting, as he had before September 11, 2001, that " the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
gravest and weapons
Placing missiles in submarines, on barges, railroads, highways, surface vessels and in the air provides them with passive protection by taking advantage of the gravest weakness of long-range ballistic missiles today -- the extreme difficulty of destroying a mobile or moving target with such weapons.
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Alexander Manzoni in some of his letters showed a hearty admiration of the genius of Giusti ; and the weak Austrian and Bourbon governments regarded them as of the gravest importance.
Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such-like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
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Ambassador Stevenson yesterday described the U.N.'s problem of electing a temporary successor to the late Dag Hammarskjold as `` the gravest crisis the institution has faced ''.
My object, rather, is to alert you to an aspect or two of the affair that could have the gravest implications for you, far beyond the legal sanctions society might inflict.
* However, Gibbon also calls Eusebius the ' gravest ' of the ecclesiastical historians: " The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
Of course, shirk is a very pejorative term in Islam, and is considered one of ( if not ) the gravest of sins.
By the Opposition rank and file the gravest accusations were raised against Andrassy.
Particularly in Hungary the dissatisfaction caused by this ' adventure ' has reached the gravest proportions, prompted by that strong conservative instinct which animates the Magyar race and is the secret of its destinies.
Nichiren Buddhism emphasizes the sanctity of life and absolute non-violence: “ To deprive a being of life is to commit the gravest kind of sin ”, and considers debate or dialogue as the only avenue to resolve disputes: “ When in public debate, although the teachings that you advocate are perfectly consistent with the truth, you should never on that account be impolite or abusive, or display a conceited attitude.
The type of desertification caused by year-round pasturing of cattle has been termed the most devastating in Central Asia, with the gravest situations in Turkmenistan and the Kazakh steppe along the eastern and northern coasts of the Caspian Sea.
The Athenian people, facing the gravest moment of peril in their history, committed themselves once and for all to the alien element of the sea, and put their faith in a man whose ambitions many had long profoundly dreaded.
* A prison reform ( 1977 ) which limited sentences in all but the gravest cases to 15 years, while proclaiming rehabilitation to be the objective of incarceration.
He changed his position within a day, however, telling Public Prosecutor Andrei Vyshinsky: " I fully and completely admit that I am guilty of all the gravest charges brought against me personally, and that I admit my complete responsibility for the treason and treachery I have committed.
On 5 June 1982, two weeks before the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Calvi had written a letter of warning to Pope John Paul I, stating that such a forthcoming event would “ provoke a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions in which the Church will suffer the gravest damage.
The arrest warrant case of 2002 was caused by the application of Belgium's so called genocide law, providing for universal jurisdiction over the gravest international crimes.
The gravest incident that day was a direct hit on a primary school in Poplar.
Article 110 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court stipulates that for the gravest forms of crimes ( e. g., war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide ), a prisoner ought to serve two thirds of a fixed sentence, or 25 years in the case of a life sentence.
This is the gravest hour of our history.
According to scholars, Hiwi's gravest mistake was having the Pentateuch redacted to reflect his own views-then had those redacted texts, which became popular, distributed to children.
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These studies have been challenged by several Brazilian ministries, which assert that recent improvements in environmental laws, enforcement and public attitudes have fundamentally reduced the threat posed to forests by such projects.
In his critique of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Lomborg stated: " Global warming is by no means our main environmental threat.
Recent difficulties have included repeated trade disputes, environmental concerns, Canadian concern for the future of oil exports, and issues of illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism.
One of the focus themes in the environmental skeptics movement is the idea that environmentalism is a growing threat to social and economic progress and the civil liberties.
Although the natural, non-sentient environment has no intrinsic value for a utilitarian like Singer, environmental degradation is a profound threat to sentient life, and for this reason he states that environmentalists are right to speak of wilderness as a ' world heritage '.
Until the political will emerges to regard environmental and health problems as a threat not only to the government in power but also to the very survival of Uzbekistan, the increasingly grave environmental threat will not be addressed effectively.
* The Free Trade of the Americas and the threat to social programs, environmental sustainability and social justice in Canada and the Americas
Thus, the major threat in these areas is fire management ( protection of private assets is a key objective and so past fire regimes may not reflect environmental needs ), weed invasion and lack of connectivity between patches.
Coatis face unregulated hunting and the serious threat of environmental destruction in Central and South America.
The net effect is that protection from one or more environmental threats inadvertently brings on the threat of heat stress.
There are growing concerns among environmental and countryside groups that AONB status is increasingly under threat from development.
A recent report, published in December 2007, from Global Action Plan, a UK-based environmental organisation found that computer servers are " at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global aviation industry " drawing attention to the carbon footprint of the IT industry in the UK.
It targeted as irrational, by implication, if not explicitly, both a vision of a " Natural State " with intrinsic rights to impede the activities of man, and hysterical fears of environmental poisons, disproportionate to the threat and dismissive of their associated benefits.
In 1974 a conference board survey found that the majority of companies still treated environmental management as a threat.
In 1995 Harvard professor Michael Porter wrote in the Harvard Business Review that environmental protection was not a threat to the corporate enterprise but rather an opportunity, one that could increase competitive advantage in the marketplace.
The group's representatives appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows and published hundreds op-ed articles arguing that " environmental conservation requires a commonsense approach that limits the scope of government ," acid rain is a " so-called threat is largely nonexistent ," and global warming is " a verdict in search of evidence.
Therefore, they tend to experience bioaccumulation from environmental pollutants that are present in their prey, and also suffered intensive persecution by shepherds and gamekeepers who considered them ( usually wrongly ) to be a threat to their livestock and gamebirds.
Because of their long reproductive cycles, long migrations, and sensitivity to environmental conditions, many species are under severe threat from overfishing, poaching, water pollution and damming of rivers.
This inherent environmental threat also prevented immigration from other regions.
The plan they are developing consists of an environmental education strategy to inform businessmen, workers, villagers, and any other people who pose as a threat to the flamingos.
The first potential moral benefit is environmental: Bringing goods from afar generally requires using more energy than transporting goods locally, and some environmental advocates ( for instance, Amory Lovins ) see this as a serious environmental threat.
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