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This stems from the power of advocacy constituencies and the recognition that these diseases might threaten the developed world.
Only those militants who threaten Pakistan are targeted by the country’s rogue Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
But this is wishful thinking, What we are seeing on the Balkans has all the elements of future conflicts in Europe: a war not between states but within them; a conflict that does not immediately threaten NATO states but undermines stability on their periphery and thus weakens their security as well as their cohesion; a frightening precedent for the successful use of military force to gain territory and expell populations.
Some in the financial sector would, of course, threaten dire consequences.
Anyone advocating policies that increase inequality and threaten the wellbeing of our societies is taking us for fools.
Otherwise, financial destabilization will threaten the fortunes of the very rich.
While Trump has made deals to keep some jobs in the US, such as the agreement with Carrier, his more powerful tactic has been to threaten companies’ brand image, including via Twitter.
In fact China may soon threaten to take over the Senkaku/Diaoyou Islands, which Japan effectively controls today.
Economic and financial nationalisms threaten.
Balance-of-payments disequilibria have been eliminated in the past decade, but threaten to resurface if demand continues to outpace output growth.
Such partnerships are necessary for confronting the infectious and chronic diseases that threaten communities throughout the region, and they have the added benefit of providing entrepreneurial opportunities for the region’s youth.
Iran will continue to threaten the world community that it will use its oil weapon, but this is highly unlikely.
Recent official US rhetoric and actions on the ground – including the arrest of five Iranians in Irbil in early January and Bush’s authorization of deadly force against Iranians who threaten Iraqi security or US troops – reflect a much more confrontational approach toward Iran’s influence inside Iraq.
Half a century ago, the free-market economist Friedrich von Hayek argued that a large public sector would threaten democracy itself, putting European countries on a “road to serfdom.”
With the world watching the IS threaten genocide, taking action is a moral duty.
There is the danger, too, of arrangements that would lessen tensions over the short-term but threaten peace over the long-term by requiring real compromises and constraints in exchange for promises and possibilities.
Achieving it is an understandable priority for the US, but South Korea must worry as much, if not more, about North Korea’s non-nuclear or conventional military forces that threaten Seoul, home to roughly 20% of South Koreans.
Still, mounting challenges such as drug and insecticide resistance threaten to reverse the progress we have made.
As China’s incursions reignite long-smoldering disagreements and threaten to destabilize the regional status quo, countries throughout Asia are reconsidering their strategic positions.
A Shi’a government in Baghdad, dominated by Iran, would, in the medium term, threaten Saudi Arabia’s territorial integrity – a scenario that the Saudis cannot, and will not, accept.
No doubt, US tariffs threaten the 18% of Chinese exports that go to the US each year.
Such policies threaten both to destroy US jobs and to alienate America’s allies, many of which are already distancing themselves.
For Chinese officials, however, this is out of the question, because it would almost certainly cause large-scale unemployment and thus threaten social stability, which is closely tied to the government’s legitimacy.
But the rest of the world can threaten a dollar sell-off.
In exchange for their outsize paychecks and ritzy fiefdoms, Putin’s lords must advance his interests – particularly when geopolitical issues emerge that threaten the regime’s survival.
Africans don't vote; they don't buy US products; they don't threaten violence.
Nor can the US threaten to take Chinese technology or require Chinese firms to transfer it to American firms, because the Chinese do not have the kind of leading-edge technology that US firms have.
Syria’s implosion, and the chaos and extremism that are likely to breed there, will threaten the entire Middle East: the stability of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Iran, and Saudi Arabia hangs in the balance.
The debates across Europe on new security laws to fight terrorism have sometimes created the false image that states threaten rather than protect their citizens’ freedom.
The IMF forecasts the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US to rise to 85% by 2014 (prompting the rating agency Moody’s to threaten a downgrade in America’s bond ratings), and to 82% in Germany, 85% in France, 126% in Italy, and 144% in Japan.
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