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After a series of showdowns, in which one company, Daewoo, threatened to default, and political forces rallied to its assistance, the government won; the hugely powerful Daewoo group underwent bankruptcy and restructuring.
Today that dominance seems threatened by the East Asian heirs to Confucianism, the ideology par excellence of state cohesion.
This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much-heralded summit between two of the world’s great democracies.
The Republican-backed crusade against a key agreement negotiated by a Democratic president, with his party’s overwhelming support, has threatened the bipartisan foundations of Israel’s cause in America.
Most Romanians see NATO membership as a huge national victory, but some wonder if there is truth in Weizmann's joke: because, if the rationale for entering a military alliance is that you feel threatened, entering NATO is nonsense.
This groundbreaking legislation calls for improved monitoring of fish landings, an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries’ management whereby the area would be managed holistically, and the protection of threatened and endangered fish species.
Investigative journalism is branded unpatriotic, and reporters who challenge official policies, as Sheremet did every day, are threatened, harassed, or placed under surveillance.
But he was also threatened, imprisoned, attacked, and stripped of his citizenship in Belarus.
Or consider his statement, during his nomination acceptance speech in Cleveland, that, if elected, he would revise NATO’s policy of automatic support for threatened members of the Alliance, or the crude “bill” for $300 billion, the amount Trump claims that Germany owes the US, that he presented to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her recent visit to the US.
The direct connection of Thaksin and his party to the electorate bypassed and threatened the established trinity of institutions that had long called the shots in Thailand.
While China may never become a truly global hegemon (because its rise is coinciding with that of India), the US nonetheless feels threatened by China’s rapidly growing geostrategic presence.And this brings us to the third US concern: national security.
While China may never become a truly global hegemon (because its rise is coinciding with that of India), the US nonetheless feels threatened by China’s rapidly growing geostrategic presence.
So is the fact that state officials threatened Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger with criminal charges and forced Guardian employees to destroy computer equipment at the newspaper’s offices.
When the Afghan Taliban – another puritanical Sunni movement with a special hatred for Iran – overran the city of Mazar-i-Sharif and executed eight Iranian diplomats in August 1998, Iran massed 70,000 troops on the border and threatened to invade.
But, today, those ideals are being increasingly threatened by rising intolerance and an increasingly belligerent majoritarianism.
In time, the US had to accept that each political contest or military battle lost was not a watershed as long as its core interests in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America were not threatened.
In a recent ad campaign, private power producers once again threatened to invoke them to secure payment of unpaid bills.
As North Korea inches closer to developing a nuclear-tipped missile that can hit the continental US, Trump has threatened the country with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
Over the last 500 years, in 16 cases where a rising power threatened to displace a ruling power, 12 led to war.
So, when Merkel argues that European integration is threatened by the public’s negative reaction to the mass flow of desperate people, it is the fate of the post-nationalist vision that she has in mind.
Social-science researchers have also studied the effects of terrorism at a local level, in scenarios where one part of a country feels more threatened than others.
Voters who feel threatened will be inclined to elect candidates who are less interested in making concessions to a country’s perceived enemies.
Indeed, the ENP comes second to co-operation with NATO as a priority for Georgia, in part because Georgians, feeling threatened by Russia, crave security above all.
With rich countries threatened by instability and poor countries largely left to their own devices, the reconstruction of the world financial system should be at the top of the international agenda.
In other words, the Islamists’ gains are threatened, above all, by the manner in which their leaders secure them.
More than half of Bangladesh’s territory, home to 100 million inhabitants, is threatened by flooding, as is the Netherlands, with 16 million people, for a quarter of its territory.
Similarly, villages have reportedly been denied access to their sole supply of portable water, while the pipeline has seriously threatened the livelihoods of Kribi’s fishermen.
Now, however, the trillion-dollar overnight repo market in housing mortgages is so large that, when the housing market retreats, financial stability could be threatened.
He was a committed nationalist who rejected any and all foreign alliances that threatened Britain’s policy independence.
Last summer, a political cage match between Germany and Greece threatened to tear the European Union apart.
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