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Kew’s recent work with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, London’s Natural History Museum, and the Zoological Society of London to create the Sample Red List Index (SRLI) for plants has revealed for the first time that one in five of the world’s plant species is threatened with extinction.
In the face of threatened US airstrikes and tight economic sanctions – even from its neighbor and supposed ally China – North Korea has achieved the status of a nuclear-weapons state.
It doesn’t help that the Trump administration has refused to grant Japanese steelmakers exemptions from its threatened tariffs.
President Donald Trump has also threatened to impose new tariffs on the rest of Chinese imports, worth $267 billion.
As a result, the debtor countries’ bond prices would collapse, interest rates would soar, and banks would be threatened with collapse.
Moreover, Zidane incarnated values that seem threatened nowadays, but to which ordinary people remain attached: loyalty to family, diligence, and cooperation.
Threatened aid cutoffs in Kenya, Chad, and elsewhere would make desperately bad situations worse.
Iran has threatened to cut oil exports if the United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions against it for violating its nuclear pledges.
This threatened the authority of the King, who had overseen the religious establishment, as well as feminists’ efforts to moderate Morocco’s Family Law, which had been based on a rigid view of religious teachings.
He has threatened to impose tariffs against Mexico, China, and other trading partners.
The few Estonian products allowed into Russia were heavily taxed, and Russia even threatened military intervention.
Georgia can reasonably hope that it will achieve real independence, but what about Moldova, Europe’s poorest country and one threatened by Russia more than the Estonians – or, indeed, the Georgians – ever were?
But Kohl does not want Russia to feel rejected or provoked to take the types of countermeasures some people in Yeltsin's entourage have threatened.
Commercial trade in species that are threatened with extinction – including elephants, rhinos, and tigers – as well as derivative products, such as tusks, horns, and powders, is completely prohibited.
Commercial trade in species that are not yet threatened with extinction but are still protected by CITES – for example, pythons – is subject to a permit.
I have also argued, based on a model of mine, that as the return of a strong dollar by early 2015 threatened to inundate American markets with imports, firms became scared to supply more output at the same price.
Each major power knows that if monopoly control is threatened in one sphere, then it is threatened in all spheres, so they hang together to avoid being hanged separately.
In fact, China has been damming most international rivers flowing out of Tibet, whose fragile ecosystem is already threatened by global warming.
Transcripts were not released in real time on subsequent days, and they omitted some crucial details (for example, Bo claimed that the Party’s representatives threatened to execute his wife and prosecute his son if he refused to cooperate).
In China, the government effectively protected nuclear weapons sites threatened by Revolutionary Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
Russia, on the other hand, feels threatened by the invasion of western-funded non-governmental organizations.
Franz Joseph I stood up for his Jewish subjects when they were threatened by German anti-Semites.
If the Chinese Communist Party feels threatened by a public frustrated with insufficient political participation and enduring social repression, it could slip into competitive nationalism, upending the already-delicate regional status quo.
Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, threatened recently that his country might shut down the US supply line to Afghanistan.
This should lead to healthy economic competition with a rising China, alongside protection of US interests in the Pacific Rim now threatened by China’s expanding influence.
In Russia, for example, 12 foreign NGOs were put on a blacklist last July and threatened with a ban on any further activity in the country.
Europe’s Overly Complex UnionPRINCETON – The European Union is currently facing challenges more severe than even the debt crisis that threatened to sink the eurozone earlier this decade.
The very existence of some Caribbean countries, including portions of Trinidad and Tobago, could be threatened if sea levels rise.
A host of threatened species, including turtles, sharks, rays, tuna, and coral is now protected.
Simultaneously, continuing ethnic tensions between Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and Han Chinese threatened to tear the region apart along local and tribal lines.
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