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Hence when last December the Mexican currency, the Peso, suddenly dropped one third in value, this threatened to produce not only more immigrants but also panic in the international financial markets.
So long as they feel threatened, Israelis are likely to choose leaders committed to a military solution to Israel's security problems.
The United States is likely to be hard-nosed in trade negotiations with the UK, but benign, placing Britain in the middle of the queue, rather than at the back, as President Barack Obama threatened.
Beyond withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he has suggested renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and threatened to impose high tariffs on Chinese imports.
When Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened to kill his rebellious detractors like “rats,” a UN coalition intervened under an emerging global doctrine: the responsibility to protect.
They fought back against large business combines that threatened to monopolize access to physical capital: the plants, machines, and equipment that workers needed to be more productive.
He was simply a loser in a contest with those who felt threatened by his ambition and ruthlessness.
Practically no urban lakefront, riverbank, coastline, or mountainside has not been threatened.
The most recent precedent was the bipartisan agreement reached earlier this year on another fiscal issue that threatened to disrupt the normal functioning of government: the absence of a formally approved budget for this year.
The same thing happened to Amazon when it threatened traditional bookstores’ business model, just as it is happening now to Uber as it challenges traditional taxi and limousine services.
I contend that an open society may also be threatened from the opposite direction; from excessive individualism, from too much competition and too little cooperation.
Open society is no longer threatened from the outside by a totalitarian ideology seeking world supremacy.
This middle ground is threatened from all sides.
The redistribution has been away from low-paid young workers, whose jobs and wages are genuinely threatened by trade and immigration, and toward the managerial and financial elites, who have gained the most from globalization, and elderly retirees, whose guaranteed pensions protect them from economic disruptions.
Nothing short of a drastic change in the conflict’s nature that threatened America’s core interests would lead to direct US involvement.
Turkey is resurgent yet troubled;Iraq has been invaded and abandoned;Iran is isolated and threatened;Israel is anxious and belligerent; and Afghanistan and Pakistan are internally imbalanced and politically fragile.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and threatened to attack Saudi Arabia, Mubarak quickly dispatched troops to defend the kingdom.
For example, will it intervene when European industrial or energy interests are threatened?
Because interest rates had fallen dramatically, retired people did not back the BJP because their financial security was threatened.
The role of the Fourth Estate was particularly important during the administration of President George W Bush.Revelations of torture, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless electronic surveillance all depended on investigative journalism of a kind that is now threatened by budget cuts and the media’s relentless focus on whatever is current – often at the expense of what is genuinely newsworthy.
Indeed, far from implementing democratic reforms, China has threatened the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the autonomy of Hong Kong’s universities.
With large Russophone minorities in Estonia and Latvia, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justification for annexing Crimea – the need to defend supposedly threatened ethnic kin – plays directly to these countries’ deepest-seated anxieties.
Producers and traders of draft animals feared mechanization, which threatened their way of life.
For these reasons, I believe very deeply that, in this stormy region, swept by so many ill winds, threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that accompanies them, the rebirth of an independent Kurdish nation and state will mark an advance.
For all these reasons, I believe that a Kurdish nation-state will be a force for peace, not disorder, in the Middle East, a stormy region that is threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that they beget.
But, within China, as the American political scientists Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell argued recently in Foreign Affairs, there is growing tension between domestic economic priorities and Chinese leaders’ belief that “China’s political stability and territorial integrity are threatened by foreign actors and forces.”
The losers in the region are also clear: Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which feel existentially threatened, and have come to regard their own Shia minorities as an Iranian fifth column.
That is what he did with North Korea, when he insulted its leader, Kim Jong-un, and threatened to rain down “fire and fury” on the country.
Iran has threatened to seal the Strait of Hormuz – through which 20% of the world’s internationally traded oil passes – if it is attacked.
But labor-law violations have become the norm, because efforts to enforce ILO rules are often quashed, while trade union members are routinely threatened, fired, and even murdered.
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