Their appearance is less confrontational and threatening than tanks, and their size and maneuverability is said to be more compatible with tight urban spaces designed for wheeled vehicles.

The term is generic, used for any unusual, threatening or strangely behaved individual whose appearance on the scene can be linked in some fashion with a UFO sighting.

The appearance of a caterpillar can often repel a predator: its markings and certain body parts can make it seem poisonous, or bigger in size and thus threatening, or non-edible.

Hook's physical appearance in the film is heavily influenced by Disney's portrayal, though with greater embellishments of gold and silk on his clothes, and curled ends to his moustache ( like a Hook ), but he is far more threatening and closer to the characterization in Barrie's novel as gentleman pirate.

The appearance of Guan Yu's face for the triads is usually more stern and threatening than the usual statue.

Sometimes, as in Head III ( 1953 ), these forms, often considered threatening in appearance, have an organic appearance but are entirely invented.

In part 4, Zsasz's appearance is a mere cameo, depicting him being led out of the boarding school by police and Harvey Bullock personally threatening him.

In Albert's final appearance in the series (" Time On Our Hands ", the third and final chapter of the 1996 Christmas trilogy ), a frustrated Del cuts Albert off at " During th ..." threatening to pour a cup of tea over his head should he complete the sentence " During the war ..." Albert cunningly says " During the 1939-1945 conflict with Germany ..."

In the spring of 228, two small forces were sent through Ji Gorge, one of which was commanded by the veteran general Zhao Yun, as decoys to give the appearance of threatening Mei.

The 2006 – 07 season was the last injury-free season for Primus as a career threatening knee injury meant he would not make a single appearance the following season.

He failed to make an appearance in 2007 – 08 due to a career threatening knee injury.

This voice could convey situations, fates of women, and feelings in a realistic way: when MIMI COERTSE sang and acted the distraction of LUCIA, the despair of NORMA, the grief of KONSTANZE, the threatening doll-like appearance of OLYMPIA or the fear of death of VIOLETTA VALERY, the audience was deeply moved.

Mitchell, as well as several other NFL players, received threatening hate mail in 2003, apparently due to his appearance on the reality show with Schmid as a mixed-race couple at the time.

The switching of weapons is, by tradition and experience, a way to minimize any threatening appearance and show respect for the training partner.

They make their first DC appearance in Shazam # 30, when the whole Marvel family is called upon to destroy Sivana's steel menagarie, which is threatening to wreck Pittsburgh.

One particular image of the Castle Romeo fireball ( above, at right ) has been one of the most highly reprinted images of a nuclear explosion, often serving as a stand-in for nuclear weapons in general for news stories, book covers, magazine articles, and even congressional reports ( such as the Cox Report ), likely because of its threatening appearance and extreme red, orange, and yellow hues.

Distraught at Louise's death, Guffy intends to use the Sherman's. 30 caliber machine gun to kill as many Germans as he can, threatening to shoot Weaver if he tries to board the tank.

He and the Flemish heavy machine-gunners halted several Soviet tank attacks threatening to encircle the " Langemarck " and the Estonian battalions.

Other fish species may be kept in the same tank as a betta, provided the fish does not have long fins that would cause the betta to mistake it for a threatening male betta, and provided the fish isn't significantly smaller than the betta.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

Willingness to take the risk of early and direct interpretation ( with the proviso that if the interpretation is too threatening, the worker can withdraw ) is another prominent feature in these efforts.

Headquarters of the Nassau system is an increasingly busy place these days, threatening to expand beyond its boundaries.

Our enemy is also threatening to devour us.

Miss Stuart is as intensely vibrant as one could wish, almost an icy shriek threatening to explode at any moment.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

David eventually gains two new wives as a result of threatening to raid a village, and Michal is redistributed to another husband.

< cite id = disputedinjunction > The Vatican archives contain an unsigned copy of a more strongly worded formal injunction purporting to have been served on Galileo shortly after Bellarmine's admonition, ordering him " not to hold, teach, or defend " the condemned doctrine " in any way whatever, either orally or in writing ", and threatening him with imprisonment if he refused to obey .</ cite > However, whether this injunction was ever properly served on Galileo is a subject of much scholarly disagreement.

The use of insulting or threatening language in the magistrates ' courts or against a magistrate is in breach of HK Laws.

Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Also forbidden are political parties supporting militia formations or having an agenda that is contradictory to the constitution and its principles, or threatening the country's stability such as national unity between Muslim Egyptians and Christian Egyptians.

The main controversy over both school vouchers and education tax credits is that they put public education in direct competition with private education, threatening to reduce and reallocate public school funding to private schools.

An enemy or foe is a being that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening.

In most early examples this work has now entirely vanished, but a whole fresco done a secco on a surface roughened to give a key for the paint may survive very well, although damp is more threatening to it than to buon fresco.

Specifically, several research groups have reported that pre-eclampsia, a life threatening complication that sometimes arises in pregnancy, is much less frequent in couples who have practiced oral sex, and even more rare in couples where fellatio regularly ended with a woman's swallowing of her partner's semen.

Sex in Tiptree's writing is frankly portrayed, a sometimes playful but more often threatening force.

Although a comic strip, it was far from a simple children's fantasy ; it was often dark, surreal, threatening, and even violent.

Life threatening fungal infections in humans most often occur in immunocompromised patients or vulnerable people with a weakened immune system, although fungi are common problems in the immunocompetent population as the causative agents of skin, nail or yeast infections.

It is indeed very often said that media could be useful ( in the point of view of someone looking for a control over the forming of consensus ) in order to discipline the popular sentiments, by detracting the public from the apocalyptic problems of mankind ( e. g. global warming, ozone hole, radioactive waste, ...), and by the " psychological warfare " threatening their own public until it accepts foreign or external interventions.

In his career he contested over 40 elections, rarely threatening the major candidates, but often getting a respectable number of votes.

Protesters often undergo training in advance on how to react to arrest or to attack, so that they will do so in a manner that quietly or limply resists without threatening the authorities.

They are often perceived as being the chief malefactors in Serbian history, causing political or military defeats, and threatening to tear Serbian society completely apart.

The large ranches defended against cattle rustling often by forbidding their employees from owning cattle and by lynching ( or threatening to lynch ) suspected rustlers.

The two brothers had often argued, and earlier in the decade, studio employees claimed they saw Harry chase Jack through the studio with a lead pipe, shouting, " I'll get you for this, you son of a bitch " and threatening to kill him.

The causes of a ' health ' emergency are often very similar to the causes of an emergency threatening to life, which includes medical emergencies and natural disasters, although the range of incidents that can be categorised here is far greater than those that cause a danger to life ( such as broken limbs, which do not usually cause death, but immediate intervention is required if the person is to recover properly )

Petrosian would often move the same piece multiple times in a few moves, confusing his opponents in the opening and threatening draws by threefold repetition in the endgame.

His work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies, and included views of his native country ( Autumn Oaks, 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Catskill Mountains, 1870, Art Institute of Chicago ), as well as scenes inspired by numerous travels overseas, especially to Italy and France ( The Monk, 1873, Addison Gallery of American Art ; Etretat, 1875, Wadsworth Atheneum ).

In modern times turnips are often carved to look as sinister and threatening as possible and are put in the window or on the doorstep of a house at Halloween to ward off evil spirits.

Wellington withdrew, as the odds turned against him, with the armies often marching close together and Marmont repeatedly threatening Wellington's supply line.

Clinical evidence suggests that pentamidine is often better tolerated than co-trimoxazole because a high dose of co-trimoxazole is needed, which is associated with a high incidence and severity of side effects such as hepatitis, bone-marrow-damage, renal-damage, and life threatening skin disease ( Lyell-syndrome ).

His relationship with his workmates Mike Harris and Brian Morgan is shaky, with Brian having a relationship with Geoff's wife, and Geoff often threatening people with a gun under pressure.

His records now featured a dark and threatening aura, often carrying a sense of barely suppressed aggression.

They frequently juxtapose seductive soft elements, often with strongly sexual overtones, with harder materials, often spikey or in some way appearing to constrain the softer parts, resulting in work which is both sensual and threatening.

In 1980 Björk wrote to Pfizer threatening to publish cases of valve failures — often fatal to the patients — unless corrective action was taken.

Merely understanding culture at the deepest level may be insufficient to institute cultural change because the dynamics of interpersonal relationships ( often under threatening conditions ) are added to the dynamics of organizational culture while attempts are made to institute desired change.

As insecurity can be distressing and feel threatening to the psyche, it can often be accompanied by a controlling personality type or avoidance, as psychological defense mechanisms.