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Starting in 1964, in conjunction with Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “New Society,” the government threatened to withhold federal funding for health, education, and other state and local programs from jurisdictions that resisted legislative and judicial desegregation orders.
The first test is seriousness of risk: Is the threatened harm of such a kind and scale as tojustify prima facie the use of force?
Much of the discussion in the period following the 2008 financial crisis focused on various economic imbalances that either threatened or impeded growth.
The huge and sudden outflow of money from Russia in turn threatened to force the Russians to devalue the Russian Rouble.
So why has Google made a fuss and threatened to walk out of China?
An increasingly powerful movement argues that the world is threatened with great harm from future climate changes - say, the notorious "greenhouse effect" - and that we must enact tough measures to limit carbon emissions today in order to save the world for tomorrow.
They are insufficient to stop abuses (after all, sanctions were threatened before the elections) and risk pushing Zimbabwe's economy deeper into crisis, hurting millions of innocent people, especially during a period of intensifying hunger and drought.
Furthermore, China will probably need to ease up on the restrictions it has already imposed if it wants to gain all of the internet's benefits; that is, unless the conservative factions who feel most threatened by the internet consolidate their power in the upcoming leadership succession.
Hardliners who feel most threatened by the internet's free flow of information were the people emboldened by the nationalistic waves of anti-American sentiment that swept China.
Not only are 12% of bird species already in danger of extinction, but more than twice that proportion have small geographical ranges (the key predictor of threat) and mostly live in habitats that are seriously threatened.
Today, they compose 12-20% of the Crimean population (depending on who is counting); but, threatened by Putin’s repressive policies toward other Muslims, they might well renew their call for all Tatars to return.
In Defense of Swiss BankingGENEVA – Leaders of the G-20 have now declared that “the era of banking secrecy is over,” and have threatened to take action against “non-cooperative jurisdictions, including tax havens.”
It has threatened to impose countervailing measures if the US follows through with its tariffs.
He also testified that tax cuts are better than spending increases to keep surpluses from growing too large, but that uncertainty is enormous, so that any tax cuts should be canceled if they threatened to bring us back to an age of deficits.
A third candidate, Chris Christie, has threatened war with Russia.
Liu became so angry about being accused of fraud and denied the car that he climbed atop a high advertising billboard and threatened to jump as a show of innocence.
There was no institutionalized write-down of Latin American debt until five years after the crisis, when a haircut no longer threatened banks’ stability.
The concept was further developed by Karl Popper in his famous book "The Open Society and its Enemies" where he showed that the open society may also be threatened by universal ideas if they claim a monopoly of the truth; but the problems of the region are best understood in terms of Bergson's formulation.
Moreover, even if Kosovo could survive economically in isolation from its neighbors, such survival would do little to break the barriers of hatred and distrust, which have repeatedly threatened the political stability of the region.
Business interests sought to replace SEC commissioners who wanted the rule, and their lawyers threatened to sue the SEC if it moved forward.
Our successes in the matter of Myrna Mack are notable, but achieving them has proved difficult: the police investigator was assassinated; judges have been threatened; and witnesses have fled into exile.
When May’s government first threatened to force companies to list foreign workers, I was dining with tech entrepreneurs from other EU countries who are settled in the UK.
First, more jobs than ever are threatened.
But transformed is not the same as threatened.
If policymakers continue to focus exclusively on output growth, the global economy’s stability – indeed, its viability – will be seriously threatened.
With Tanzania’s journalists being threatened, assaulted, and kidnapped, our conversation remained confined to the mundane.
This is one of the major reasons that forests in Europe and the United States have recovered – and it is why many forests in developing countries are threatened.
In 2001, US officials threatened to use their influence to stop previously approved IDB funding unless Haiti’s majority political party submitted to political demands to accept a particular apportionment of seats in a Haitian electoral oversight body.
In 2010-2012, by contrast, systemically important European banks were exposed, raising the risk of a domino effect that threatened the entire eurozone.
More recently Taiwan is threatened with military maneuvers across the straights, even the firing of test missiles in its direction, whenever independence is suggestedParadoxically, nationalist chest pounding is motivated not by the strength and confidence that Chinese leaders wish to project, but by deep-seated fear of weakness.
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