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Doing virtually no good while dramatically decreasing energy efficiency and increasing air pollution merely threatens any hope for enlightened public policy.
For India, the Chinese incursion also threatens its access to the 6,300-meter-high Siachen Glacier, to the west of Depsang.
Allowing the use of chemical weapons to go unpunished not only could reverse one of the few promising developments in the Syrian conflict; it also threatens to undermine international norms on the use of toxic gas and nerve agents, increasing the possibility that they will be used in terrorist attacks.
A second cause for worry is that the world is poised to enter a new nuclear age that threatens to be even more dangerous and expensive than the Cold War era of mutually assured destruction (MAD).
This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.
The Terror Next DoorLONDON – In a prominent hadith, the Prophet Mohammed said: “If disorder threatens, take refuge in Yemen.”
But corruption has spun out of control, and now threatens both China’s stability and the Communist Party’s legitimacy.
A narcotics-fueled insurgency threatens newly democratic Afghanistan.
Indeed, EU institutions' current paternalistic stance towards the accession countries threatens to create a two-tier Europe that will complicate the task of integration.
In a sense, Russia has behaved like Greece in claiming that NATO enlargement threatens its security.
History threatens to return.
Today, no one threatens Russia's independence, despite paranoid rants to the contrary.
Drug resistance threatens the effective treatment of a growing list of communicable diseases – from bacterial infections to viral to and fungal diseases.
And that, in turn, has triggered a round of bitter political squabbling that threatens to negate the entire idea of a much more powerful European voice on the global stage.
More than one-third of African girls marry before the age of 18, which threatens their health, truncates their education, and lowers their aspirations for the future.
Only a solution that balances the two will guarantee the long-term growth of both peripheral and core eurozone economies, reassuring debt markets of their solvency and stemming the contagion that threatens to sweep the continent.
Many AKP constituencies are wary of cultural conflict, if only because it threatens their economic interests.
Ensuring that domestic demand decelerates to a more sustainable pace is necessary to moderate the upward pressure on prices that threatens the credibility of the inflation-targeting monetary-policy framework – indeed, in April, the 12-month consumer inflation rate breached the upper limit of the central bank’s tolerance band.
Meanwhile, China’s economic slowdown – the result of global weakness and efforts to cool the country’s inflation and overheated asset markets – threatens to slow the pace of job creation for the millions moving annually from rural poverty to greater prosperity in China’s expanding urban areas.
More recently, British polymath Dick Taverne warned that, “in the practice of medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and disease, and many other practical issues, there is an undercurrent of irrationality that threatens science-dependent progress, and even the civilized basis of our democracy.”
Iran’s nuclear program is the decisive factor in this equation, for it threatens irreversibly the region’s strategic balance.
That Iran – a country whose president never tires of calling for Israel’s annihilation and that threatens Israel’s northern and southern borders through its massive support of proxy wars waged by Hezbollah and Hamas – might one day have missiles with nuclear warheads is Israel’s worst security nightmare.
Clinton's brand of limited missile defense appears to be too much for the Russians, who fear it as the start of something bigger that threatens their strategic position.
Yesterday, Europe guaranteed that Germany would never again go astray; today, it is the impediment that threatens the country’s hard-won financial and economic stability.
Given the South China Sea’s strategic importance, disorder there threatens to destabilize the entire region.
Flippantly attempting to change that bargain eschews political realities and threatens to set the European project on a dangerous course.
Of course, while the German right threatens to become more nationalistic, history will not repeat itself, because today’s Germany has changed, and so has its political environment.
Unlike the fracas over an American missile shield in Europe, this conflict shows no signs of blowing over, and threatens to damage further the rocky relationship between Russia and the West.
This is a longstanding challenge that, particularly in the United States, goes back at least two decades before the crisis; left unaddressed, it now threatens social cohesion.
Climate change threatens our way of life, and we will have to face some uncomfortable adjustments over the coming years and decades.
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