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Rather than reinventing itself, Europe, under the pressure of the crisis and its own internal contradictions, threatens to revert to the national egoism and protectionism of the past.
Moreover, climate change threatens to reduce agricultural output by up to 40% by 2080, when India will have another 450 million people.
All parties need to find a formula to resolve the issue before it again threatens to erupt into conflict.
Nothing could be further from the truth: the threat to biodiversity can mean the loss of critical features of humanity's life-support systems, and therefore threatens our personal and economic well-being.
As in 1848, the struggle for affordable food is producing discontent that transcends national frontiers, threatens established regimes, and fuels popular demand for a more just political order.
Turmoil turns into humiliating chaos; a political crisis threatens to become a constitutional crisis.
This use of public funds is particularly objectionable because it threatens to lock in the very energy sources that are driving dangerous climate change.
The industry’s spin machine threatens to trap us all in a dangerous status quo.
After all, poverty is not an unchanging attribute of a fixed group; it is a condition that threatens billions of vulnerable people.
China’s leaders finally seem to have recognized that unless the country ends up in a full-blown war that threatens its national security, they have little reason to continue to subsidize state-owned enterprises at the expense of private firms.
A dangerous situation may well emerge, as this report threatens to derail the whole process.
The election of Donald Trump as US President, however, threatens this entire system.
His generally hostile attitude toward the country, particularly with regard to trade, threatens further damage to an already-tense bilateral relationship – and thus poses a risk for US multinationals and US allies alike.
Using oil or natural gas for domestic electricity threatens oil and gas exports, which are the principle source of government revenues.
Isolation of and discrimination against Roma not only undermines European values; it threatens to unravel the social fabric in Europe’s new democracies.
The euro’s rapid appreciation against the dollar threatens to undermine this foundation.
Sadr’s militia threatens to quickly become Iraq’s answer to Hezbollah: a well-armed, politically connected private army with its own foreign policy.
As Trump threatens to renegotiate NAFTA “forever,” slashes foreign aid, and plans border walls, his counterpart is emerging as the global champion of free trade and multilateral cooperation.
Behind the all-too-foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab-Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and beyond.
Continued rapid technological change threatens to widen further the existing gap between available skills and those demanded by the global labor market.
Inequality and exclusion of women, young people, and the poor undermines global growth and threatens to unravel the compact between society and its institutions.
Disengaging now will not leave people free from our interference; it will put them at the mercy of groups whose extremism threatens the very way of life that we stand for and to which they aspire.
China threatens to impose food and fuel sanctions if North Korea cheats or breaks the agreement.
Of course, disrespect for the national flag is derided in most countries, and has been a criminal offense in India since 1971, with the adoption of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, which threatens whoever “mutilates, defaces, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon, or otherwise shows disrespect to” the Indian flag with imprisonment.
But Sufism’s grassroots popularity threatens the narrow view of Islam that extremists propagate, resulting in repeated attacks throughout the Islamic world.
The potential systemic crisis threatens to accelerate deleveraging further, with serious consequences for emerging Europe.
The people of Hong Kong continue to confront bravely the Goliath that threatens their values, even holding June vigils to honor the victims of the Beijing massacre – something that no mainland group would be permitted to do.
Today, the diplomatic fallout from the Ukraine crisis threatens to undermine Resolution 2139, which was adopted unanimously two months ago on the coattails of the Sochi Olympics.
Today’s populism advances a toxic new xenophobia, one that threatens to fracture our societies.
So Argentina’s shale megaproject undermines efforts to address climate change, threatens local democracy and indigenous rights, and will not bring the economic benefits promised by its proponents.
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