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perceived and threat
According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.
As such, it is distinguished from fear, which is an appropriate cognitive and emotional response to a perceived threat.
This was partly in response to a perceived threat of losing Norfolk Island to the French and partly to establish an alternative food source for the new colony.
Spiritual and philosophical institutions have been allowed to be established or re-established, as long they are not perceived to be a threat to the power of the CPC.
On May 1, 1985 President Reagan announced that his administration perceived Nicaragua to be " an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States ," and declared a " national emergency " and a trade embargo against Nicaragua to " deal with that threat.
# Any experience which is inconsistent with the organization of the structure of the self may be perceived as a threat, and the more of these perceptions there are, the more rigidly the self structure is organized to maintain itself.
# Under certain conditions, involving primarily complete absence of threat to the self structure, experiences which are inconsistent with it may be perceived and examined, and the structure of self revised to assimilate and include such experiences.
" It is likely that we have only a partial view of their beliefs, because the writings of the Cathars were mostly destroyed due to the doctrinal threat perceived by the Papacy ; much of our existing knowledge of the Cathars is derived from their opponents.
Reacting to a perceived threat, the planters lobbied for more direct British rule.
Perhaps more importantly, many people want a professional advocate when they become involved in a dispute, particularly if the dispute involves perceived legal rights, legal wrongdoing, or threat of legal action against them.
Elizabeth and her advisors perceived the threat of a Catholic crusade against heretical England.
The alleged plot revolved around right-wing former military figures who were supposedly building private armies to counter the perceived threat from trade unions and the Soviet Union.
Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat that causes animals to move quickly away from the location of the perceived threat, and sometimes hide.
Interest in fallout shelters has largely dropped, as the perceived threat of global nuclear war reduced after the end of the Cold War.
The Tsar perceived the very real threat of a scandal and ordered his own investigations but did not, in the end, remove Rasputin from his position of influence ; on the contrary he fired his minister of the interior for a " lack of control over the press " ( censorship being a top priority for Nicholas then ).
Following the collapse of the so-called Bubble economy and the 1990s boom in the US, the Japanese economy was perceived as less of a threat to US interests.
According to critics, Hoover tended to exaggerate the dangers of these alleged subversives and many times overstepped his bounds in his pursuit of eliminating that perceived threat.
Attempts were made to play down the perceived threat to Britain, but once the German fleet reached the position of equalling the other second-rank navies, it became impossible to avoid mention of the one great fleet it was intended to challenge.
In the late 1980s, as fiscal austerity took hold in the United States and the perceived threat of Communism declined with the waning of the Cold War, the U. S. became disenchanted with Doe's government and began cutting off critical foreign aid to Liberia.
To escape Roman aggression in 9 BC they migrated east to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom that Augustus perceived as a threat to Rome.

perceived and Iraq
The alignment with these countries was accompanied by a more moderate Iraqi approach to other Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, which previously Iraq had perceived as hostile.
In practice, the main concerns in recent years have been relations with the US, the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, Iraq, the perceived threat from Iran, the effect of oil pricing, and increasing the influence in the Muslim world of the Wahhabi form of Islam through overseas donations.
However, this had proven to completely backfire both on Iraq and on the part of the Arab states, for Khomeini was widely perceived as a hero for managing to defend Iran and maintain the war with little foreign support against the heavily backed Iraq and only managed to boost Islamic radicalism not only within the Arab states, but within Iraq itself, creating new tensions between the Sunni Ba ' ath Party and the majority Shiite population.
Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.
In London people dressed as ghosts marched on the Parliament of the United Kingdom and succeeded in projecting " No war on Iraq " on the Palace of Westminster, and took part in direct action against those corporations whom they perceived as likely to benefit from the war in Iraq.
Although the water dispute between Turkey and Syria was more problematic, the GAP project was also perceived as a threat by Iraq.
: the United States has, among other things, attempted or been perceived as attempting more or less unilaterally to do the following: pressure other countries to adopt American values and practices regarding human rights and democracy ; prevent other countries from acquiring military capabilities that could counter American conventional superiority ; enforce American law extra-territorially in other societies ; grade countries according to their adherence to American standards on human rights, drugs, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, missile proliferation, and now religious freedom ; apply sanctions against countries that do not meet American standards on these issues ; promote American corporate interests under the slogans of free trade and open markets and GATT being the main examples of the free trade policy initiatives of the 1990s ; shape World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies to serve those same corporate interests ; intervene in local conflicts in which it has relatively little direct interest ; ... ; promote American arms sales abroad while attempting to prevent comparable sales by other countries ; force out one U. N. secretary-general and dictate the appointment of his successor ; expand NATO initially to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic and no one else ; undertake military action against Iraq and later maintain harsh economic sanctions against the regime ; and categorize certain countries as ' rogue states ,' excluding them from global institutions ....< sup > 1 </ sup >
"< ref name =" EM-B ">< 2006 Speech of Eliza Manningham-Buller Director-General of MI5 on the terrorist threat facing the United Kingdom She said that the video wills of British suicide bombers made it clear that they were motivated by perceived worldwide and long-standing injustices against Muslims ; an extreme and minority interpretation of Islam promoted by some preachers and people of influence ; their interpretation as anti-Muslim of UK foreign policy, in particular the UK ’ s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even though Will had been hawkish in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he eventually expressed reservations about Bush administration Iraq policies, eventually openly criticizing what he perceived to be an unrealistically optimistic set of political scenarios.
In the summer of that year an armed group of 800 Assyrians crossed from Iraq into Syria, where there were many other Assyrians, to " assert what they perceived as their legitimate national rights ", according to Jonathan Eric Lewis, a political analyst.
Hiltermann writes ; " The deliberate American prevarication on Halabja was the logical, although probably undesired, outcome of a pronounced six-year tilt toward Iraq, seen as a bulwark against the perceived threat posed by Iran's zealous brand of politicized Islam.
His appointment, by an order signed by L. Paul Bremer III, the head of the occupation authority, was widely criticized for perceived nepotism ( his uncle Ahmed Chalabi was critically involved in the US-led war against Iraq and Hussein ) and he himself lacked any significant trial experience ( he was a corporate securities lawyer ).
The estimate, titled Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States, states the following: " We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives ; perceived jihadist success there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere.
Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.
However, various leftists opposed the Afghanistan invasion and the subsequent invasion of Iraq on the following grounds: pacifism ; belief that the war was illegal under international law ; opposition to perceived U. S. imperialism ; disbelief ( especially in the case of Iraq ) in the sincerity of the U. S .' s stated war aims of counter-terrorism and the spread of political freedom ; belief that the wars were motivated by neocolonialism and petroleum politics ; and, in a few cases, denial of al-Qaida's responsibility for the September 11 attacks.
With the perceived success of the surge in Iraq, the influence of the Rumsfeld Doctrine seems to be declining.
They then extend the war on " terror " to a war against general perceived evils with the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In the light of perceived growing tendencies to ignore international law, this tribunal was formed to investigate the concerns of other groups and onlookers into Iraq.
In September 2003, Ukrainian troops joined U. S .- led stabilization forces in Iraq, which is widely perceived as Kuchma's effort to improve relations with the West.

perceived and summer
His role in internal debates during the summer of 1949 over whether or not to devalue sterling, in which he was perceived to have played both sides of the issue, tarnished his reputation in both political and official circles.
This incident was perceived by Americans as a insult to American honor ; combined with the increased commercial restrictions, it produced a demand for war in the United States in the summer of 1807
Though attracted to research as a career, he was discouraged by his own perceived ignorance after attending a microbiology congress that summer.
Decades later, he told Fianna Fáil politicians that in late summer 1933, he was unsure whether the Irish Army would obey his orders to suppress the perceived threat, or whether the soldiers would support the Blueshirts ( who included many ex-soldiers ).
In the 2011 – 12 Australian summer, a disappointing series draw with New Zealand gave rise to calls for Ponting to be removed from the team following perceived underperformances.
45-years after the incident, it was speculated by The Montreal Gazette that De Gaulle was still annoyed over a perceived slight from World War II-era Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King's slow recognition of the new French government in late summer 1944.
Members of the former National Democratic Party NDP of Raila Odinga which had joined KANU only in summer 2001 left the then ruling party together with KANU politicians who were opposed to what they perceived as imposition of Kenyatta as candidate by the then president Moi.
Disillusioned by what he perceived as the Comintern's flagging support for the cause of the liberation of colonial peoples in favor of the Soviet Union's pursuit of diplomatic alliances with the colonial powers themselves, Padmore abruptly severed his connection with the ITUCNW late in the summer of 1933.
Although the temperatures were not at unsafe levels ( peaks of 82 ° F / 27. 8 ° C occurred at a few stations in summertime ), the LTB perceived that if the trend continued, cooling in summer would be required at some time in the future, and it would be sensible to develop suitable technology.
B96 has held a summer concert at various local venues since 1992, with the exception of one year that it wasn't held due to a perceived lack of good musical talent available to perform.

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