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When threatened, countries tend to group together against a common enemy.
Having suffered what economists call a “sudden stop,” many parts of the US economy were imploding or had ceased to function – to extend the medical metaphor, even the most vital organs were threatened.
Trade policies around the world are under intense scrutiny, and the open, rules-based trading system is being threatened by protectionist pressures in key advanced countries.
A survey of the American public found that, while 68% of adults knew at least one person who had been hospitalized with a mental illness and 10% knew five or more people, only 9% had ever been threatened or physically harmed by such a person.
The critical question for 2018, then, is what Trump will do if he finds himself threatened domestically at the same time that a foreign-policy crisis erupts.
The project is being pursued in the face of strong Egyptian objections – military intervention has been threatened – yet it continues apace.
More recently, however, Obama has threatened to veto any further attempts to roll back financial reform.
Millions of children are undernourished and out of school; millions have witnessed unspeakable brutality; and millions are threatened with exploitation, abuse, and worse.
Fascists commonly portrayed Jews as a pernicious force that threatened, through wicked manipulation, to undermine the health of nations and dominate the world.
In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned the United States against sending an aircraft carrier back into the Persian Gulf.
So, threatened as the regional hegemon, Saudi Arabia has joined the reform race by announcing partial municipal elections to consultative bodies in which the royal family already appoints half the members.
Then, when a response became unavoidable, he threatened both too much and too little military force.
Germany is no longer threatened by invading armies; she is surrounded by allies in Nato and partners in the EU.
Regarding preventive use of force, traditional interpretations of Article 51 of the UN Charter (which provides a right of self-defense) allow a threatened state to take pre-emptive action in the face of imminent attack, but not to use force preventively against longer term threats.
A state threatened by terrorist attacks originating in another state might feel less patient than a majority of the Council about what is the “last resort.”
Her trip opened with the always-tense annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which was threatened at the start by the plight of the blind human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who had taken refuge in the United States’ embassy in Beijing.
And, as is his wont, Trump threatened to sue Bannon.
Even in the Netherlands, women and girls who sell their bodies are routinely threatened, beaten, raped, and terrorized by pimps and customers.
Oil is America's Motive for WarAll around the world people ask: what is the real motive for the Bush Administration's threatened war with Iraq?
Whenever real democracy in the Middle East threatened American control over oil reserves, democracy was jettisoned.
A similarly instructive case is the West's support for a military crackdown in Algeria after democratic elections in early 1992 threatened to bring the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) to power.
There has been another avenue to cutting short diplomacy with Iran: Israel, which would lie within range of a nuclear-armed Iranian missile, and therefore is most threatened by that prospect.
Expansion will not bolster democracy, because democracy is not threatened in the countries invited to join.
Countries that are threatened -- Ukraine, the Baltics states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-- are not being offered NATO membership.
With the Chinese economy far less threatened by export-led weakening than it was three and a half years ago, a hard landing is unlikely.
Such loans would have been unacceptable in a floating rate regime, because they threatened to move the exchange rate too far for the health of the economies.
It is only when advanced countries are threatened that there is sufficient impetus to invest in vaccines to confront diseases like Ebola.
Baker’s talking points seemed aimed at establishing a “new normal,” in which the legality of official behavior is not to be questioned and journalists who do so are threatened.
Hisses arose from the audience, and cries of “You threatened them!”
Are we threatened with a new arms race between Russia and the US, with Europe once again the theater of their rivalry?
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