those weapons pose a grave, immediate threat

This last sentiment is posing a serious threat to Belgium s survival.

For all of these reasons, homosexuality poses a serious threat to the ideas that underlie Mexican society.

Fear of radiation, it seems, poses a far more potent health threat than does radiation itself.

The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean.

This constitutes a much more serious and lasting threat to Egypt s democratization than do Morsi s temporary decrees.

Bearing in mind that the use of nuclear weapons poses the most serious threat to mankind and to the survival of civilization,

The huge rise in militancy across Pakistan (pdf), is also creating a number of hazards for aid workers.

Bush and Blair must show that any weapons of mass destruction that are recovered posed a grave and urgent threat.

The second reason adduced is that Saddam poses a grave security threat to the US and to his region.

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Failure to resolve the Cyprus problem is a potentially serious threat to good relations between NATO, Turkey, and the EU.

Deeply concerned about the recent violence in the city of Monrovia and its environs, which poses a serious threat to the peace process,

Dumping of E waste poses a major challenge in India.

That division is dangerous.

Today s emerging intifada demonstrates the profound danger implied by this approach.

Poverty also threatens economic stability.

I think this is a risky strategy if a strong US recovery is not around the corner, then Europe needs to act on its own, using the standard counter cyclical tools of monetary and fiscal policy.

The threat today is not inflation, but unemployment.

Russia is a threat to the whole civilized world.

But continuing the fight also poses a serious threat to Uribe s main success, which has been to improve perceptions of security, including among investors. The FARC, now wounded and cornered, may decide that its only option is to go on the offensive in order to demonstrate its continuing relevance and remaining strength.

But continuing the fight also poses a serious threat to Uribe s main success, which has been to improve perceptions of security, including among investors.

Immigration is regarded as a deep threat by many people, so that demagogues are increasingly able to marshal resentment and grassroots support.

As a result, loss of control of parts of Pakistan to an increasingly capable alliance of militant groups is a serious near term threat.

This land grab, which is occurring mostly in Sub Saharan Africa, constitutes a major threat to the future food security of the populations concerned.

Climate change, for example, poses dire threats to the planet that must be assessed according to prevailing scientific norms and the evolving capacity of climate science.

Does all of this amount to a serious threat to the benefits of globalization?

Man made climate change is, of course, real, and constitutes a serious problem.

Russia is in long term decline, but it still poses a very real threat to the international order in Europe and beyond.

Acknowledging that poverty, among other factors, represents a serious challenge to the full and effective participation and contribution of young people to society,

The uncontrolled proliferation and misuse of these arms remain a major cause of human suffering around the world, and they represent a serious threat to human security.

This stance is perplexing and possibly dangerous.

He's also armed and therefore poses a threat to the ISIS.

Most would suggest that a period of financial retrenchment and slow GDP growth poses a serious threat to the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is based on economic performance.

That, together with the heroin that is trafficked from Burma to India, China, Thailand, and other countries in the region, poses a serious threat to our political and economic security.

As a result, Pakistan's bomb makers have seriously jeopardized the safety of their country.

The economic costs of the impasse have been catastrophic for Greece, and pose a grave threat to Europe.

The most immediate threat is the slowdown in the advanced economies.

Self defense is permitted under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and pre emptive self defense may be necessary when a terrorist organization presents a strong or imminent threat.

Still, there are times when pacifism, even in Germany, is an inadequate response to a serious menace.

As a result, Pakistan's bomb makers have seriously jeopardized the safety of their country.

More important than their economic impact, counterfeit medicines pose a significant global public health problem.

But are people really so unhealthily fat?

Yet we cannot decide whether this build up is menacing.

The law constitutes a major threat for Kyrgyzstan and its LGBT communities.