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With thousands of artillery tubes hidden in tunnels near the border, North Korea can threaten to wreak havoc on Seoul, South Korea’s nearby capital, by conventional means.
It would threaten the role of London as a financial center, some complained, as if the proposal was meant to apply just in London and not globally.
That means a country where government institutions quietly do their work, presidents neither threaten citizens nor give three-hour speeches that television stations are forced to carry, people can walk down the street without fear, and the economy is not perennially teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
Failure will erect a huge obstacle to European economic growth for years to come, and could threaten the survival of the euro itself.
China's response to the SARS epidemic suggests an almost automatic defensiveness when the outside world seems to impinge on it or threaten it in some potentially harmful or embarrassing way.
Direct votes on issues like trade rules or immigration policy will gut Europe’s representative democracy, just as direct votes on membership threaten to gut the EU itself.
One hopes that Irish leaders can impress this upon politicians in the UK, opening the way for a solution that doesn’t threaten Ireland’s hard-won peace and prosperity.
But liberal states should not hesitate to use international law to deal with "rogue" states and those who threaten a global order based on mutual tolerance.
But one way they do so is by foisting upon the people equal rights and opportunities for minorities, immigrants, and foreigners, who “steal” jobs, threaten national security, and undermine traditional ways of life.
More important, American isolationism – based on a false belief that the US was safely protected by two oceans – allowed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to wage aggressive war and threaten the entire world.
Trump’s proposals also threaten to exacerbate the situation in the Middle East.
If left unchecked, these countries will eventually be able to threaten core US economic and security interests – at home and abroad – especially if they expand their nuclear and cyberwarfare capacities.
Moreover, no single state can weigh in on international negotiations and offer solutions to economic rivalries or trade issues that threaten to degenerate into political clashes.
But it does hold out the promise of reducing it to a scale that will not threaten the openness, security, or prosperity of modern societies.
Nor was there any discussion of the widespread concern about an ideological shift to the left that could threaten property rights, leading to capital flight as individuals seek to protect their wealth.
The nexus among military officers, jihadists, and hardline nationalists has created a nuclear-armed “Terroristan” that will most likely continue to threaten regional and global security.
Indeed, such assaults on media freedom threaten to emasculate democratic processes, including elections.
Moreover, human actions threaten substantially higher proportions of other well-known groups – such as flowering plants and amphibians.
Much attention has been drawn to US President Donald Trump’s remark that the United States “will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” should the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) threaten it or its allies.
Extremists who hijack religion threaten governments and people everywhere.
Market incentives to treat body tissue as a commodity may also threaten personal beliefs.
In the near term, Italy’s ongoing banking crisis could flare up again and threaten European stability; in the longer term, Italy may have to leave the eurozone, which would put the single currency itself at risk.
And the Kurdish question entails a potential for much wider conflict, because statehood would also threaten the territorial integrity of Syria, Iraq, and probably Iran.
Soaring energy prices threaten to work their way into the general inflation process.
Even if all of Europe’s Muslims were Islamists – which is a far cry from reality – they could not threaten the Continent’s sovereignty and, by the same token, its laws and Enlightenment values.
That could lead to growing unemployment, poverty, inequality, instability, and other factors that threaten not just individual countries or regions, but the entire international community.
This would not only have deeply damaging economic and political effects for those countries, such as Argentina today, but could also threaten the public good of global financial stability.
It commits the US not to employ or threaten to employ nuclear weapons against states that do not possess them, provided that these countries remain in compliance with the NPT and their other nuclear non-proliferation obligations.
Having this mixture helps ensure that if technological developments render one leg vulnerable, the others can still threaten sufficient retaliation.
American liberals and conservatives, as well as US friends and allies, all favor the principle of enhancing the security of dangerous nuclear materials and reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism, which could plausibly threaten anyone.
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