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Closing the gap with tax hikes – the burden of which would be borne largely by middle-income households – would threaten both economic growth and living standards.
And the global food and financial crises threaten to stymie recent progress.
In a post-Assad Syria, the ethnic and religious fissures betweenSunnis, Alawites, Druze, Christians, and Kurdsmight equally threaten the country’s unity.
Unless the Russian state develops a viable policy, fast, all of these areas threaten to become safe havens for terrorists.
In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China’s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.
The US lacks both the international and domestic prerequisites to resolve conflicts internal to other societies, and to monitor and control transnational transactions that threaten Americans at home.
Chaos in Syria would threaten Lebanon’s stability and alter Iran’s geopolitical influence in the region.
It seems clear that a second rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate would plunge the EU into a renewed crisis and threaten to derail the considerable gains in both democratic legitimacy and collective decision-making capacity deriving from the new Treaty.
Nor is its own ally, Pakistan, particularly eager to confront terrorist groups that threaten the security of its neighbors, China among them.
Indeed, as the IMF has pointed out in its World Economic Outlook, these flows threaten to inflate asset bubbles, make it harder for countries to pursue an independent monetary policy, and trigger currency appreciation and associated losses in export competitiveness.
On the Korean Peninsula and in the Persian Gulf, the central aim must be to prevent the nuclear armament of dictatorships that threaten regional stability and the prevailing balance of power.
Capitalism does not per se threaten anyone’s welfare benefits.
These nagging questions threaten to undermine the authority of the European Council.
Will enlargement not threaten their well being by opening them to cheap competition and labor?
The same trends threaten the emerging economies, where wealth and corruption are on the rise.
Eventually, the political wildfires that are allowed to burn out of control will threaten enough powerful countries to force a certain level of cooperation.
The speculative uncertainties associated with a “Grexit” might well threaten other eurozone economies (for example, Cyprus and Portugal), while Greece, with a devalued drachma, would find it painfully expensive to import the capital goods it needs to generate a broad base of high-wage jobs.
The European Monetary System began as a high-level reaction to global currency chaos, and in particular to the depreciation of the dollar in 1977 and 1978, which seemed to threaten its continued role as the major international reserve currency.
Peace negotiators understandably fear that criminal accountability for past crimes will threaten their side’s leaders and supporters.
The northern business and political elite see him as a bulwark against their increasingly restive southern rivals who openly threaten a repeat of the Igbo attempt to secede in 1967 that caused the Biafra conflict, taking the rich oil fields of the Niger delta with them.
It is the investment agreements themselves that most seriously threaten democratic decision-making.
The Saudis, deeply disturbed by the Syrian-Iranian alliance, worry that re-imposition of Syrian supremacy in Lebanon, and with it the strengthening of Iranian and Shiite power there, would threaten the Kingdom itself.
The introduction of chemical weapons and the possibility of Western military intervention threaten to draw Israel directly into the conflict.
The spillover effects of the Syrian crisis have also unsettled Lebanon, exemplified in the recent spate of sectarian violence, and threaten to destabilize Jordan, which is struggling under the burden of more than 500,000 Syrian refugees.
Even then, Russia is not likely to threaten the NATO putative new members, none of which share a border with Russia, save for Poland and the tiny enclave of Kaliningrad.
The question is whether the government’s efforts to implement structural reforms and transform the economy’s growth model are working – that is, whether internal imbalances continue to threaten long-term economic performance.
To deny this, to threaten to undo Polish-German reconciliation, is to harm Poland’s fundamental national interests.
The new enclosures of the genetic commons or of body tissue threaten to extend the objectification and commodification of the body to both sexes.
While corrosive immobility is a trademark of the Syrian regime, these challenges threaten to reinforce each other and marginalize Syria internationally even more so than today.
Such activities threaten to suck moisture from other regions, potentially affecting Asia’s monsoons.
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