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They threatened to renege on their own generous pre-election promises of aid unless Belarus surrendered stakes in the country’s most lucrative companies, including Beltransgaz, the gas-pipeline network, and Belaruskali, the potash miner, among others.
British bankers threatened that they would never again invest in these untrustworthy Americans.
It threatened our viability as a nation-state.
The Islamist party, Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), took power in the states of Kelantan and Trengganu and strongly threatened UMNO in other northern states.
Apart from those countries that are threatened – partly or completely –by rising sea levels, global warming will primarily affect the desert belts and their already precarious water supplies.
A decade later, the world’s record in fulfilling the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) remains poor, with hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Burundi, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo still threatened by mass atrocities.
While none on its own would have threatened the world economy, the danger stemmed from a self-reinforcing interaction among them: weak economic data leads to financial turmoil, which induces policy blunders that in turn fuel more financial panic, economic weakness, and policy mistakes.
Should ISIS succeed in establishing a permanent state-like entity in parts of Iraq and Syria, the disintegration of the region would accelerate, the US would lose its “global war on terror,” and world peace would be seriously threatened.
One Hundred Days of SolitudeSANTIAGO – When violence flared up in Ukraine and protesters began dying at the hands of government agents, the European Union threatened sanctions against Ukrainian officials responsible for “violence and excessive force.”
Most recently, the Saudis threatened to sell off its US financial assets should Congress enact a proposed law exposing its leadership to lawsuits for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Of course, Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs on China, could also influence China’s exchange-rate policy.
The EU Association Agreement threatened none of Russia’s interests, whether economic or cultural.
But these infant giants are quickly threatened with eclipse by even newer enterprises.
The ten government-affiliated companies mentioned in the report threatened to sue us.
It is not obvious that “normal” marriage, procreation, or child-rearing would be threatened by this “add on.”
Across the country, voters arrived on crutches and in donkey carts, passing by posters that threatened: “You vote, you die.”
He would show them how the Jewish state, created by Holocaust survivors and now led by one, would come to the rescue of a Christian minority threatened with destruction.
If the US, as its leaders clearly believe, will be threatened for years to come by terrorist groups, the latter will inevitably conclude, as millions have done before, that the easiest way into the US is through Latin America.
Putting his own spin on Targaryen’s infamous line “burn them all,” Trump threatened that the US would “totally destroy” North Korea if it continues to develop its nuclear program.
Moreover, in the wrangling over the UN resolution, China threatened a veto if there were any references to Chapter VII of the Charter, which allows enforcement.
Economic and political measures, as well as a sustained US military presence, would be more effective than reliance solely on offensive escalation should the US need to counter Chinese actions that threatened important American interests.
Pensioners and PopulismNEW YORK – If Donald Trump loses the US election, will the tide of populism that threatened to overwhelm the world after the Brexit vote in June begin to wane?
He was a great historian and teacher, but these days I might be encouraged to think that he had threatened my “safe space.”
Osama bin Laden neither threatened nor paid the men who flew aircraft into the World Trade Center in September 2001: he attracted them by his ideas to do evil.
But, with Khrushchev’s overthrow in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev lost no time in restoring orthodoxy and purging books that threatened the Party’s reputation.
In the last few weeks, political stability in Greece and Portugal has been threatened as governments struggle with declining credibility and a rising popular backlash.
China then simply threatened to abandon or never to conclude trade deals with these EU members.
Over the last couple of months, North Korea has threatened to carry out yet another nuclear test.
Saudi Arabia, which had remained silent for nearly two weeks, did so with a $500 million contribution to rebuilding devastated areas of Lebanon and another billion to support Lebanon’s threatened currency.
Now Ukraine’s people may face a similar test after supporters of Viktor Yanukovych threatened to seek autonomy should the rightful winner of the country’s presidential vote, Viktor Yushchenko, actually become president.
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