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Yet, when Einstein and his wife appeared as the personal guests of Charlie Chaplin at the 1931 premiere of Chaplin’s film City Lights in Los Angeles, they had to battle their way through frantically pressing and cheering crowds (on whom the police had earlier threatened to use tear gas).
Shortly after Putin declared, at last August’s Seliger Youth Forum, that “Kazakhs never had a state of their own” before 1991 (a statement that reflected the same geopolitical chauvinism that has characterized Putin’s Ukraine policy), Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev explicitly threatened to leave the project.
The formula is simple: portray Islam as being threatened by infidels, and then have the UMNO ride to the rescue of the besieged Muslim community.
With developing countries standing to lose even more than developed countries if nothing is done about global warming, many believe they can be cajoled, threatened, or induced to be part of a global agreement.
Trial subjects drawn from illegal Latin American immigrants were threatened with reporting of their illegal status to the US Department of Homeland Security if they complained about the risks of the drug that they received.
Thus, the missile launch can be viewed as an indication of how threatened the Kim dynasty feels: the regime appears to believe that it must blackmail its closest ally in order to maintain its support.
There is even a Robot World Cup, though, judging by the standard of the event held in Graz, Austria, last summer, footballers have no need to feel threatened just yet.
When the dollar strengthened at the end of the 1960s and in the mid-1980s, American industry felt threatened by foreign imports and pressed for changes in the trading regime.
Start by canceling the tariffs on steel and other imports that Trump has threatened to impose.
The US has threatened to veto the resolution in the Security Council, and the US Congress has threatened to suspend American aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Israel has denounced the Palestinian strategy as a unilateral initiative, and has threatened the Palestinians with severe reprisals.
Israel is also considering a suspension of transfers of Palestinian tax and customs revenues, and has threatened to annex parts of the West Bank.
Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.
In Poland last autumn, younger voters helped to replace a government whose incipient authoritarianism and xenophobic attitudes threatened to isolate their country.
Worse still, the significant share of global growth driven by “Chimerica” (China and America) is now being threatened by an escalating trade war.
These mutinies were all death-dealing situations that threatened national stability, and yet she never flinched.
To sustain such a treasured legacy and defend democracy wherever it is threatened is our collective responsibility.
It is clear that the outcome would have been different if the Dutch Battalion, regardless of its legalistic mandate and inferior power, would have threatened the Serbs with resisting the separation of Muslim men from Muslim women.
The countries likely to bear the brunt of such massive diversion of waters are those located farthest downstream on rivers like the Brahmaputra and Mekong – Bangladesh, whose very future is threatened by climate and environmental change, and Vietnam, a rice bowl of Asia.
Energy security and cost, water and air quality, climate, ecosystems on land and in the oceans, food security, and much more would be threatened.
Now they are the countries that feel most threatened, and bookshops in both countries are full of alarmist and sensational accounts of national decline.
When the services fail, the position of the wealthy is threatened.
The rapid Shiite rise has already turned into a sectarian civil war in Iraq and recently has threatened to generate the same outcome in Lebanon.
In 1965, when the North Vietnamese were proving to be stubborn enemies, LeMay threatened that they would be “bombed back into the stone age.”
Arguably, the answer here could be positive for countries which feel threatened by a powerful neighbor: i.e. the Baltic States or Ukraine.
Job protection benefits the employed at the expense of the unemployed, and some unions, notably the most militant, are strongly opposed to greater flexibility, and have already threatened to block liberalizing measures in the streets.
Although the threatened indictment of al-Bashir has prompted protest in Khartoum, no one expects him to appear in court soon.
When Japan was threatened by Western imperialism, he says, the country had to open up (in 1868) and modernize.
After the 2008 financial crisis, the eurozone’s weakest banks quickly buckled under the weight of their bad loans, and then threatened to drag their respective governments down with them.
The ECB also maintained its liquidity support – if not always generously and reliably – and ultimately committed to intervening to resolve threatened institutions, thus alleviating market turmoil.
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