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My “personal safety was threatened,” he wrote on August 30 in the last email I received from him.
Obama has said that America should use military force, unilaterally if necessary, when its security or that of its allies is threatened.
Meanwhile, at home, the White Man’s World is threatened by immigration, globalization of labor markets, gender parity, and the legal and social emancipation of sexual minorities.
Consider the case of Kobani, on Syria’s border with Turkey, which was threatened with annihilation after ISIS captured more than 300 nearby Kurdish villages.
Irresponsible forest management, enhanced by poor governmental regulation and enforcement, and markets that reward illegal logging, are conspiring to denude the world’s most valuable and threatened forests.
It has threatened to leave the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.
And financial stability could be threatened not only by the quality of bank assets, but also by the sheer scale of bank liabilities.
Each region, increasingly, must find its own path to economic development, energy and food security, and effective infrastructure, and must do so in a world threatened by climate change and resource scarcity.
In many European countries, by contrast, marginalized young people protest to preserve a crumbling social order threatened by fiscal austerity.
But once innovators succeed in creating effective “sewbots” capable of manipulating soft material, many existing jobs in clothing and textile manufacture will also be threatened.
A War of Values With RussiaCOPENHAGEN – Russian authorities recently threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO’s missile-defense system.
Working with the Europeans and the Chinese, he could have threatened Iran, and companies doing business there, with comprehensive and effective sanctions had there been evidence that the country was failing to live up to its denuclearization obligations.
Indeed, the sin of insufficient loyalty – Jang was noticeably absent during the spring, when Kim threatened war against his neighbors and the United States – seemed to loom large.
Trump has not only threatened to defy the “One China” policy, which has formed the foundation of US-China relations since 1972; he has also vowed to build up US naval capabilities with the explicit goal of opposing China.
However, with China’s economy currently threatened by ongoing yuan appreciation, liberalizing the financial system could have perverse short-run consequences.
The processing and government subsidies associated with recycling yield lower-quality paper to save a resource that is not threatened.
For several weeks, Bachelet was blindfolded and strapped to a chair in the Villa Grimaldi detention center in Santiago as her captors threatened to kill her mother.
But when Hausmann, a Venezuelan citizen and former government minister, discusses an important question that is being asked by investors around the world, he is not merely chastised, but threatened.
Such outrages must be resisted, before more people like Cavallo and Hausmann are threatened – and before the disease spreads to North America and Europe.
Religious and sociopolitical associations fear that their global ties will be severed and their existence threatened if their counterparts abroad are declared subversive in mainland China.
And he is ready to renounce rules-based cooperation across the board, from trade (he has already rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal) to climate change (he has threatened to withdraw from the historic agreement reached last year in Paris).
The Commission’s eurocrats should dust-off their files from 30 years ago and recall how their predecessors handled the steel crisis that then threatened to provoke an intra-European trade war.
It was an era of integration based on the heroic drive to reconcile post-war Germany and France and establish a Pax Europea , as well as the threatened expansion of the Soviet Union.
Real and threatened action against Japanese exports forced Japan to comply rather than risk a trade war, with the Bank of Japan (BOJ) delivering the requisite appreciation through tight monetary policy.
Fiscal stability, meanwhile, is already threatened by the growing pension and health-care costs implied by a rapidly aging population.
Russia started off its year as G-8 president with a crisis over gas supplies to Ukraine, and even threatened Europe with rerouting its gas exports to Asia.
When that order was threatened, Western leaders felt authorized to intervene in the affairs of whatever “rogue state” was causing the problem.
No wonder Fischer’s quixotic pursuit of the championship led American policy mastermind Henry Kissinger to call Fischer and urge him not to back out, as he had threatened to do.
But he was also kicked out of Argentina, where he lived, and is threatened with extradition to Germany, where preparations are made to prosecute him for Holocaust denial.
But, despite Obama’s supportive words, the US has expressed opposition to the Palestinian bid, because it would disrupt the status quo – which is already being threatened by escalating tensions between the Obama administration and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over how to address Iran’s nuclear program.
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