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This project also has the ability in the wrong hands threaten the entire world.
Each resident takes on their own personality and even though they later turn murderous the viewer finds themselves not only sympathizing with Duane, his brother and the rest of the freaks, but you will actually find yourself rooting them on as they seek revenge against several reporters from a sleazy tabloid who threaten to expose the Bradleys as well as a sleazy old man who runs a 'freak show' and falsely claims to have captured Belail.
They find themselves being stalked by the FBI Agent, they fooled and Max finds himself threaten by a local Crime Boss (Don Cheadle) to steal an Diamond that worth about $30 million dollars.
At best, a nuclear-arms race would threaten to consume this already-unstable region, which would endanger the NPT, with far-reaching global consequences.
Europe Must Confront America’s Extraterritorial SanctionsNEW YORK – Donald Trump’s renunciation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and the reimposition of US sanctions on that country threaten global peace.
In order to ensure that the US is too harassed to be able to threaten it, Iran has consistently obstructed Bush’s mission of regional transformation.
Trophy investments threaten to produce low returns and bad debt.
Russia has also sent ships and warplanes to threaten the coasts of other Western countries, abducted an Estonian intelligence officer on NATO territory, and sustained an ongoing military buildup in Eastern Europe, the Arctic, and elsewhere.
But that will not work, because big questions – “Will population growth outstrip resources and threaten civilization?”
The highest priority problem is the overall budget’s medium-run outlook, as the Bush tax cuts have opened Reagan-size deficits that threaten to cripple US economic growth.
Abandoning the Kyoto accord, many believe, will threaten the lives of tens or hundreds of millions of people living in countries too poor to protect them from the consequences of climate change and rising sea levels.
Although Western tourism is a critically important source of employment and foreign currency in both countries, some Muslims have criticized the industry for promoting alcohol and other relaxed social conventions that threaten Islamic values.
Unfortunately, a US debt default, even a technical one, would have unforeseeable consequences that could threaten the recovery.
In the first two, the US reassures each of these region’s countries that there will be no sudden change in the balance of power that will threaten them.
Nevertheless, the tensions created by Sarkozy’s recklessness threaten Europe’s political stability, heightening market uncertainty relative to what a more prudent, coordinated rescue program would have implied.
And, with all due respect for Annan and Tutu, this is what external mediation would amount to – and it would threaten to cripple Spanish democracy.
Beyond the human costs, they would threaten the economic prosperity of not only Asia, but the entire world.
There is still time for governments to embrace restraint, explore diplomacy, and reconsider policies that threaten to undermine stability.
Consider what happens when banks in Texas, Florida, or California make bad lending decisions that threaten their survival.
Regardless of the outcome, private debt is not socialized by state governments (but by the federal government, if at all), and does not threaten public finances at the state level.
Its basic strategy has been to send troops, drones, or bombers to any place that would threaten America’s access to oil, harbors Islamic fundamentalists, or otherwise creates problems – say, piracy off the coast of Somalia – for US interests.
In a replay of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s own fights with Europe three decades ago, both sides will huff and puff, threaten to withdraw from the talks, and then reach a last-minute compromise.
His 63-65% approval rating prior to the annexation of Crimea appeared high by Western standards, but was low compared to his previous record – and dangerously close to levels that would threaten his leadership.
But there’s a hitch: the easy monetary policies that have largely enabled economies to return to growth are reaching their limits, and now threaten to disrupt the recovery by creating the conditions for another financial crisis.
If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we defend our individual human dignity and resist attacks that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the state is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.
Knowing that no attempt to take legal action against the authorities or influencers who threaten them will produce any results, many journalists censor themselves.
A state can threaten death, but, as many totalitarian regimes have learned, no one is stronger - and possibly more dangerous - than those who have overcome the fear of death.
Half-funded, half-coordinated, and half-committed international responses not only threaten regional stability, but also endanger millions of lives.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has stated unequivocally that it will not tolerate a North Korean capability to threaten the mainland United States with nuclear weapons.
Sometimes countries adopt policies that threaten their survival, conscious that they are doing so.
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