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With his big beard and black hat, he stands out as an orthodox Jew, and is constantly spat upon, cursed at, and threatened.
The official verdict states that they threatened national unity, challenged those in authority, and incited public opinion against the state while using “foreign,” that is, Western, terminology.
And its editors bravely and nobly stood by their convictions, even when their lives were threatened.
Symbolic gestures are to be expected, as with the threatened government shutdown earlier this year, which merely created fodder for political advertising by both parties.
But the state of turmoil just beyond the Alliance’s eastern border has created a reasonable fear in NATO’s Baltic member countries, as well as in Romania and Poland, about whether or not the Alliance would actually stand with them should they be threatened.
First, the regime threatened to conduct more nuclear tests if the United Nations does not withdraw its recommendation to prosecute the country’s leaders for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
More than a few eyebrows were raised after the ECB’s January Governing Council meeting, when Trichet threatened that the Bank would act “preemptively” if labor unions tried to embed higher energy and food prices into new contracts, risking a wage-price spiral.
Surprisingly, May’s compromises have all been accepted by nationalist hard-liners who previously threatened her leadership.
By the 1969 election, UMNO’s status as the sole political representative of Malays was threatened.
The result has been the emergence of some surprising, if not bizarre, alliances: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the American-backed, Shia-dominated Iraq are facing Israel, Saudi Arabia, and most of the other Sunni Arab states, all of which feel existentially threatened by Iran’s ascendance.
Consumers in advanced economies benefit from the reduction in prices of traded goods; but low and even some medium-skill workers lose income as their equilibrium wages fall and their jobs are threatened.
Yet in the US, Donald Trump has become the hero of angry workers threatened by trade, migration, and technological change.
Trump has also torn up two major international trade treaties and threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.
Trump has also threatened to impose tariffs on $350 billion worth of imported motor vehicles and parts.
One recent poll found that 66% of Republican voters backed Trump’s threatened tariffs against China.
The head of the Italian Banking Association even threatened to sue Enria personally.
On the EU’s most immediate challenge, posed by Russia, Tusk will have to broker decisions with leaders from countries that feel immediately threatened (like his own) and those for which economic ties with Russia outweigh any threat to European security, which they feel to be remote.
Bleed the ForeignerPRINCETON – Today, the world is threatened with a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown – but on an even more cataclysmic scale.
Like Americans and others around the world, they are threatened by violent extremism.
It is about moral values that make it appropriate to rescue bankers, who expect everyone but themselves to pay for the mess they created, and inappropriate to compensate the world’s poorest people, whose survival is threatened precisely because of the mess created by developed countries.
Beyond the moral imperative, such an approach would help to maintain economic performance, which can be threatened by excessive income inequality, via social tensions, political turbulence, and even violent conflict.
Few Americans realize that the Iranian Revolution came a quarter-century after the CIA and Britain’s intelligence agency MI6 conspired in 1953 to overthrow the country’s democratically elected government and install a police state under the Shah of Iran, to preserve Anglo-American control over Iran’s oil, which was threatened by nationalization.
Indeed, South African President Thabo Mbeki has threatened not to participate unless Mugabe is invited.
Abe wants Japan to become a “normal" country again, with the capacity to defend its interests and citizens wherever they are threatened.
But the risks that Japan faces – including an increasingly assertive China, a nuclear North Korea, and an Islamic State that has threatened to murder Japanese citizens abroad – have raised legitimate questions about whether the country needs greater latitude to defend itself.
President George H.W. Bush even threatened to reduce American aid to Israel.
In August 1982, Mexico threatened to default, and was quickly followed by other large borrowers, notably Argentina and Brazil.
This month’s decision to hold back vaccination in Karachi after health workers there were threatened, though understandable, is nonetheless a cause for serious concern in this respect.
For example, on February 26, at a garment market in Benghazi, Libya, members of a powerful Islamist militia rounded up dozens of Egyptian Coptic Christians – identified by crosses tattooed on their right wrists – whom they then detained, tortured, and threatened with execution.
It is precisely because of this that I can now visit my ancestral hometown and talk to the people who now live in the house in which I was born--because they do not feel threatened, because they know I don't want to displace them or take their house.''
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