It was insidious and it was really happening.

Rather, the threats to democracy are more base and more insidious.

What we're looking at here is the insidious cost of ringtone piracy.

Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pickpockets, and insidious opiumsmokers

The insidious problem of transnational organized crime could not be solved in the absence of a collective global effort.

But what happens is, of course, it mutates over the next 80 years and it turns into something rather insidious.

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

Eliminating violence against women in all its insidious forms domestic violence, trafficking, and armed conflict must be a major commitment of the entire international community.

As insidious as official discrimination is discrimination at the community level in asylum countries, based on xenophobia and prejudice among elements within the local population.

And the amazing thing about this really insidious technological innovation is that even just with this one thing, we can experience a huge range of regret.

What the climate crisis has revealed to us is a secondary, more insidious and more pervasive crisis, which is the crisis of agency, which is what to do.

Lack of inclusion in community development and such unevenness in the sharing of resources and profit demonstrate the ongoing injustice of cultural domination, an insidious form of poverty.

In addition to this insidious creeping economic problem, the almost daily escalation of oil prices threatens to further undermine the fragile economic base of countries such as mine.

The unlawful use of mercenaries had not only persisted, but was also acquiring insidious new forms with links to arms trafficking, terrorism, drug trafficking and other criminal activities.

In welcoming the participants, he emphasized the growing threat posed by organized transnational crime in all its insidious forms, including theft of and illicit trafficking in motor vehicles.

Every bomb, every bomb threat, has an insidious effect on free and open institutions the kinds of institutions everyone in this body is working so hard to build.

And all of that stuff is really disgusting, but what's really insidious is the biological pollution that happens because of the magnitude of the shifts that it causes to entire ecosystems.

The psychological effects of the crisis were an insidious and serious health concern, particularly in children some sources had found that 90 per cent of the children exhibited traumatic stress related symptoms.

To the extent that the crisis is blamed on political leaders, it is having an insidious and corrosive effect, not only on the authority of the State, but also on institutional behaviour.

This insidious type of conventional arms as strikingly demonstrated in recent years is fraught with danger for the civilian population in zones of conflict years and even decades after the end of hostilities.

A more insidious but no less destructive threat to humanity is the scourge of narcotics. We all know the corrosive effects that drugs have on the fabric of society, the lives and dreams they shatter on a daily basis.

Peoples in transition from authoritarian rule peaceful in Poland in 1989, bloody in Libya today grapple with decisions that determine their fate for decades. How should the former regime s worst wrongdoers and security police, with their insidious archives, be treated?

But creationists, whether biblical fundamentalists or believers in intelligent design, do pose a threat to scientific thinking. Indeed, creationism s insidious genius lies in its ability to reinvent evolution in its own image as a dogmatic belief system and thus the antithesis of science.

More troubling is the identification of conflict with a single human source, which obscures the more systemic and insidious nature of international conflict. Again, imagine if recent history had gone differently, and Saddam had in fact taken the Bush administration s eleventh hour offer of exile rather than war.

For Thatcher, as for Hayek, the great intellectual error of the twentieth century was the belief that the state could improve on the spontaneous efforts of individuals. What others saw as the state s role in elevating the condition of the people, she saw as the insidious road to serfdom.

In fact, the focus on speed and force the essence of what US economic policymakers now call the big bazooka has prompted an insidious mutation of the Japanese disease. The liquidity injections of quantitative easing (QE) have shifted monetary policy transmission channels away from interest rates to asset and currency markets.

NEW HAVEN Increasingly reliant on each other for sustainable economic growth, the United States and China have fallen into a classic codependency trap, bristling at changes in the rules of engagement. The symptoms of this insidious pathology were on clear display during Chinese President Xi Jinping s recent visit to America.

It is an insidious and effective strategy, one that marginalizes dissenters and generates the impression of near universal support for the regime. On my last visit to Moscow, I noticed that a friend, a singer in the Bolshoi opera, had tied a small Ribbon of Saint George to her white Mercedes.

But we are even more alarmed by the insidious threats posed by landmines and small arms and light weapons, which are responsible for the maiming and killing of so many innocent civilians in Africa and Asia in the many conflicts there that the international community is still not able to stop.

Unfortunately, this insidious attack on the second leg of the WTO also extends to the third leg, the dispute settlement mechanism. The DSM is the pride of the WTO it is the only impartial and binding mechanism for adjudicating and enforcing contractual obligations defined by the WTO and accepted by its members.

Thus, our independent press is one of the freest in Africa human rights organizations are proliferating and carry out their activities unhindered and organized civil society is fully playing its role. Despite these noteworthy advances, insidious campaigns have been sporadically unleashed against my country. For my Government the subject of human rights is not taboo.

Many privacy concerns are based on concrete interests, such as preserving financial security or obscuring information that could compromise one s employment or ability to qualify for affordable health insurance. But there is also a more personal aspect the tension between the desire to be known and the desire to protect one s secrets, whether insidious, embarrassing, or intimate.

Nonetheless, the upcoming election will undoubtedly bring a change in government. The question is whether new faces and a different balance of parties will lead to more stable and effective governance, or to a continuation of the current government s misrule what the Indian academic Pratap Bhanu Mehta has called a plutocracy of the most insidious kind.

Meanwhile, certain forces that are acting to undermine the authority of Tajikistan in the eyes of the world community and harbouring plans for active opposition to the agreements reached between the Government of Tajikistan and the United Tajik Opposition are continuing to strike insidious blows against the delicate shoots of the peace initiatives being implemented in the country.

Recalling further the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, held at Managua from 18 to 21 September 2001, and the Declaration of the Third Meeting of States Parties reaffirming the unwavering commitment both to the total eradication of anti personnel mines and to addressing the insidious and inhumane effects of those weapons,See APLC MSP.3 2001 1, part II.

Recalling further the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, held at Managua from 18 to 21 September 2001, and the Declaration of the Third Meeting of States Parties, reaffirming the unwavering commitment both to the total eradication of anti personnel mines and to addressing the insidious and inhumane effects of those weapons,See APLC MSP.3 2001 1, part II.

At first glance, nonalignment looks like an attractive option for still emerging countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, and others, because it promises freedom from the insidious grip of entangling alliances. But, more important, it holds out the prospect that a people can chart its own path, free from external pressure a particularly attractive proposition for countries that remain scarred by their colonial pasts.

The failure of both US and Chinese leaders to recognize the mutual benefits of an investment treaty is disturbing. Going slow on such an obvious win win reform suggests either that each country attaches little importance to its growth imperative or that they are unwilling to address that urgency by coming to grips with the increasingly insidious trust deficit that divides them.

It is no secret that those forces, whose interests lie in stirring up tension in Tajikistan and negating the emergent positive social and political trends which have resulted from the focused efforts of a great many people, continue to nurture their insidious plans, and in so doing they do not shrink from using whatever means they deem necessary to achieve their vile ends.

The Special Rapporteur wishes to stress that the newest and most alarming aspect of the resurgence of parties and groups with racist and xenophobic platforms is their insidious inroads on the political agendas of democratic parties and their acceptance by the latter in order to win votes under the guise of combating terrorism, defending the national identity , promoting national preference and combating illegal immigration.

The result of a joint effort between Governments, international organizations, non governmental organizations and civil society, the Convention to ban anti personnel mines solidifies a common aspiration of mankind, namely, to contribute to the removal of these insidious weapons from the face of the earth. We therefore urge the signatory States to speed up their ratification procedures so that the Convention can enter into force as soon as possible.

About one year after that ominous declaration, on 21 December 1963, the Greek Cypriots launched armed attacks on the Turkish Cypriots all over the island, in accordance with the insidious Akritas Plan, with an ultimatum that sought to impose amendments to the constitution of the Republic of Cyprus that would reduce the Turkish Cypriot side apos s status from that of an equal political partner to that of a mere minority.