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And, because Turkish banks and firms have borrowed heavily in foreign currency, the lira’s freefall threatens to bring much of the private sector down with it.
And yet Buddhist chauvinism now threatens the democratic process in both Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka.
Sweden’s most prestigious daily newspaper, Svenske Dagbladet, filled almost an entire Sunday front page with an eviscerated body showing exposed arteries, adorned with the warning: “Ever warmer climate threatens more death.”
These two scenarios follow a familiar story line: technological progress, such as the development of nuclear power, genetically modified organisms, information technologies, and synthetic organic chemistry, first promises salvation, but then threatens doom as the consequences, often environmental, become apparent.
But the RCB’s lack of resolve in adopting a framework where low inflation is clearly stated as the priority now threatens to undermine what has been achieved.
So the EU is now seen as the Trojan horse that threatens the myriad of state-sanctioned benefits and handouts that every citizen enjoys.
The Vultures’ VictoryNEW YORK – A recent decision by a United States appeals court threatens to upend global sovereign-debt markets.
Instead, it has developed a nuclear weapons program that threatens stability in the region and places a heavy burden on its economy.
French, Spanish, and American foreign ministries should express their solidarity with the Venezuelan legislature, which Maduro’s coup by constituent assembly threatens to dissolve.
No nation threatens China’s land borders.
But all of this can change rapidly when a crisis looms, especially if it threatens the integrity of the European project.
Ironically, this stance threatens China’s interests most of all.
Africa’s Race Against the MachinesWASHINGTON, DC – By some estimates, automation threatens over half of all jobs in OECD countries.
But America’s neutrality on sovereignty disputes threatens to undermine its bilateral security alliances (which, by preventing countries like Japan from turning toward militarism, actually serve Chinese interests).
The new view on Chernobyl threatens the existence of charities – such as those offering health “respites” abroad for children – that depend for their fund-raising on graphic footage of deformed babies.
The combination of poverty, drought, famine, and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa threatens more human lives than terrorism or tsunamis ever did.
Without even the price of a stamp to deter the prolix, the unmanageable tsunami of e-mail threatens to drown the world in information, unless the servers, switches, and wires that sustain the system burn out first.
But China is now pursuing major inter-basin and inter-river water transfer projects on the Tibetan plateau, which threatens to diminish international-river flows into India and other co-riparian states.
But when a country’s dysfunctional governance has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and threatens neighboring countries, such complaints have no place in the debate.
The EU, which emphasizes human rights and openness, threatens the Kremlin’s sovereign democracy project.
I wonder, too, if we are not nearing the end of a process of dissolution that now threatens to turn the abstraction of “the people” irreversibly into a fiction, one nearly impossible to imagine (let alone put a face to) and even more difficult to believe.
If this perspective has prevailed in the internal policy debate, Chinese leaders, including Xi, could have reached the fateful conclusion that, on balance, America’s security presence in Asia directly threatens Chinese interests and must be eliminated.
Aside from the great damage caused by unequal bargaining power outside of the multilateral framework, the path of bilateral negotiations threatens to remove the focus from universal outcomes, which are the bedrock of globalization.
In the wake of the Cold War, the countries of Europe have something unprecedented and valuable: a common security order that includes all and threatens none.
Thanks to their deep pockets, Big Tech can gobble up or squelch any new firm that threatens core profit lines, no matter how indirectly.
The result is today’s stagnant economy, marked by anemic growth that threatens to become the new normal.
Customers, too, can be disingenuous or worse, engage in blackmail, which occurs, as TripAdvisor explains, “when a guest threatens to write a negative review unless a demand for a refund, upgrade, or other request is met.”
So the inter-linkage between the ratification crises in Ireland and the Czech Republic is now explicit and threatens to spill over into the wider EU arena in 2009.
The first is escalation of political and military confrontation with the West, which has turned Russia into a rogue state that threatens its neighbors.
The battle between austerity’s defenders and opponents thus threatens to tear apart not just the eurozone, but the EU as a whole.
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