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Others take a flagrantly sexist stance, arguing that a woman president would be a non-starter as long as the North Korean regime continues to threaten national security.
The world remains full of heresies that threaten our identities and cherished institutions; the difficulty is to view them not as ideas that must be violently suppressed, but as opportunities to understand where and how current institutions are excluding people or failing to deliver promised benefits.
On the contrary, their domestic problems threaten to turn uncertainty into peril.
Such campaigns sometimes succeed because they can credibly threaten to damage the value of global brand names.
The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.
Unlike the typical East Coast politician, Trump doesn’t depend on votes and donations from American Jews, and therefore has little reason not to criticize, even threaten, Israel publicly.
“[W]e should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death,” he wrote, “unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.”
In a world in which terrorists have committed atrocities and threaten to commit more, to seek complete government transparency is utopian.
It is also true that whenever Republicans rattle their sabers about the debt ceiling, and threaten not to raise it, the bond market yawns and there is no significant impact on yields.
These two cases – the dog that should have barked but did not, and the dog that barked for no reason – threaten the EU’s fundamental workings, which are based on a clear rulebook enforced vigorously by a strong Commission.
M5S goes out of its way to insult and threaten critical journalists, and the League disparages immigrants and badgers local governments that show hospitality toward asylum seekers who have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
One of the normal roles of a central bank is to be a “lender of last resort” when bank failures threaten to destabilize the banking system and the economy.
But how will Germany react when the north-south divide becomes large enough to threaten the euro’s survival?
With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi’s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.
But opponents of legislation can threaten to filibuster (speak for an indefinite period and thereby paralyze Senate business), which can be ended only if 60 senators support bringing the legislation to a vote.
Depending on their range, these missiles could threaten US troops in critical regions, American allies or US territory.
The US faces two distinct fiscal challenges: the tax increases and spending cuts that threaten to derail the economy in 2013; and a long-term structural deficit that is likely to mean higher interest rates, less investment, and slower growth once the economy has recovered and the output gap has disappeared.
While China opposes North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, it is even more opposed to policies that could threaten the North’s stability and lead to massive refugee crossings into China or to a unified Korea with its capital in Seoul.
But minor diplomatic breakdowns continue to threaten the relationship.
The conflict with the US may well come to a head during Congressional hearings on the renminbi to be held in September, where many voices will urge the Obama administration to threaten punitive measures if China does not act.
It strains credulity to argue, as China and North Korea have, that a normalized Japan would threaten regional stability any more than China's massive military buildup and territorial aggression, or North Korea's bellicosity and nuclear weapons, already do.
Moreover, today’s global imbalances and misaligned real exchange rates threaten to bring on not just mild recession, but significant and prolonged depression.
But high oil prices threaten the health of the entire $45 trillion world economy.
Regulation that is not globally coordinated, they warned, would create unnecessary uncertainty, prolong financial distress, and threaten economic recovery.
It does increase inequality and threaten asset bubbles, which could lead to a new financial crash.
Its booming exports in the mid-2000s led US officials to threaten trade retaliation unless the Chinese authorities took steps to restrict exports, cause the renminbi to appreciate, and shift to “consumption-led growth.”
Can it continue simply to “lie still,” hoping that no new shocks arise that diminish its economic health, if not threaten its survival?
As 2014 draws to an end, falling oil, gas, and coal prices threaten to undermine investment in green energy and stimulate wasteful consumption.
But new restrictions on Web-based news media, such as those in Jordan, threaten to reverse the progress that the Internet has enabled.
And government bailouts have been replaced with creditor bail-ins, at least when the latter does not threaten financial stability.
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