A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met. |
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This stand-off threatens to create a slew of zombie banks, on life support from the taxpayer, for a prolonged period of time. |
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Things escalate when a SWAT team follow the police onto the scene and the macho head officer threatens to take the place by storm. |
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Cold rush threatens pristine Antarctic, says the Guardian's science correspondent Ian Sample. |
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Secondly, Robert De Niro threatens a creditor with a revolver he bought, the result of more borrowing. |
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A crescendo rises and threatens to explode, but vanishes, leaving all but a ripple of sound. |
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And it is understood that military spending threatens neighbor states, causing them to arm themselves, so that arms races threaten the peace. |
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Finally, technology threatens to depersonalize our lives and increase our ultimate loneliness. |
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It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike. |
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By suggesting an asocial relationship before the intervention of social roles, class, and structures, it threatens to upset the existing order. |
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When land is divided up into smaller parcels and lots, Sherwonit says, it threatens the park's integrity. |
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A state of emergency is declared and the army threatens to assume control if order is not restored. |
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Whether asymmetry threatens the development of a democratic federal system is open to debate. |
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He ruthlessly threatens to bury the diner's young owner when the owner conscientiously decides to back out of the sale. |
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Yet the story progresses so slowly that it threatens to lull the viewer to sleep. |
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Clearly, many Lutherans see full communion with the Episcopal Church as a costly decision that threatens Lutheran identity. |
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It threatens that if money is not sent within days, steps will be taken to recover the money via the British courts. |
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Spam clogs our mailboxes daily to the point where it threatens viability of e-mail as a communications tool. |
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As baby boomers age and life expectancy rises, dementia threatens to become epidemic. |
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The government's main aim, however, was to rein in the country's huge coal output, which threatens to glut markets and undermine profits. |
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It threatens to throw the Agency into chaos at a time when it is already dealing with serious backlogs. |
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The move threatens to create a schism in the Church, pitting modernisers against traditionalists. |
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So, what is it about a man with a man-sized shaft on his scooter that threatens people? |
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And when he does not get his way threatens to pick up his marbles and go home. |
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The wordless theatre of everyday life occasionally threatens to subside into banality. |
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This trend especially threatens children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems. |
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In effect, he threatens to declare to the world his administration's moral bankruptcy. |
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In its depiction of a rather run-down and seamy side of New Jersey, it threatens to be taken seriously. |
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It is indicative of the thorough mess Britain's farmers are in when a beef crisis tax threatens the livelihood of pork producers. |
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The transatlantic dispute over genetic engineering threatens to be much more divisive. |
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The dispute threatens to spread to all hospitals nationwide where non-consultant hospital doctors work. |
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Rather, they might have set up production lines that can be activated if war threatens. |
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Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls, where it is hard to get. |
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Sometimes the tape threatens to break up under the accumulated weight of Masuko's bass drum and the low throb of Fujii's synth. |
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Or the items have been soaked in fresh water and chemical baths to leech out the saltwater that threatens to destroy them. |
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The world yet again faces another mind-boggling issue which threatens the existence of human beings on planet earth. |
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Everyday there is a new crisis of modernity that threatens our continued existence. |
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Each of the people who uses or threatens unlawful violence will be guilty of the offence. |
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The burgeoning trade in bones and body parts for use in folk medicines threatens tigers and other big cats. |
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Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it. |
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I see her in every beautiful woman, in every danger that threatens to overtake me, in every heartbeat, every flicker of emotion. |
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If Fiji goes belly up, it threatens the dependent economies of surrounding nations. |
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Every time the boys' boredom threatens to go off like a klaxon, she produces another palliative. |
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The crisis threatens to shatter the opposition party's bid to retain its status as the majority party in the parliamentary elections. |
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It's been a great year for the Seoul firm, which threatens to kick Sony in the battle for consumer electronics mindshare. |
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Like infesting alien pods, American culture threatens to transmogrify the planet, as the speaker put it, into one big New Jersey. |
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Besides these monstrous and horrifying thoughts, the uncontrolled practice of cloning also threatens the dignity of humankind. |
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Lucy herself is a powerful character, an independent spirit with a thirst for revenge that threatens to consume her. |
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His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten! |
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Through this process, ultimate uniformization threatens to spread everywhere. |
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Underfeeding, although less harmful if it happens only occasionally, also threatens good development of mind and body. |
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The financial support which underwrote the project also threatens to alter the villa's spirit. |
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When he resolves to find medical supplies for the village, his boldness threatens to shatter the safety of the commune and change things forever. |
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You breathe in and your lungs fill with a murky mist that threatens to choke the life right out of you. |
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The unmanaged growth of our financial aid budget threatens to overwhelm that commitment. |
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Unfortunately, this budget balancing threatens to worsen the economic slump. |
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Although none of her duties are unwomanly, Enid's nursing threatens the conventions of small-town life. |
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For a Tony Blair tormented by the unquiet ghosts of the conflict, this threatens to be a war without end. |
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As more women display masculine characteristics, this threatens the bipolar construction that has become so naturalized. |
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However, sometimes a brazen BFF is so bold, brash and fearless that her naughty behavior threatens to get you both in deep trouble. |
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Political parties are nervously awaiting the outcome of a court case which threatens to throw the general election into chaos. |
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But in some ways a sombreness has descended that threatens to remove some of the satire. |
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What threatens to be merely a soppy love story among the wagons and petticoats becomes something more dramatic. |
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Several general practitioners were lost to follow up, which threatens the internal validity of the trial. |
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Dmytryk and veteran cinematographer Harry J. Wild create a brooding environment where shadow threatens to overwhelm the characters. |
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Illegal immigration threatens our sovereignty, our security, reverence for the rule of law. |
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Yet the IRA's transformation into a local policing outfit shows that, as a guerrilla army that threatens war, it is a spent force. |
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When the city's culinary scene threatens to lapse into boredom, there is someone who comes along promising to add a dash of spice to it. |
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But leaders in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are spitting blood because the failure of the budget threatens vital projects in their countries. |
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They may disagree but, when the chips are down, they come together as a people and as a nation and God help anyone who threatens that. |
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This is what threatens materialism, since according to that doctrine, every fact about every human mind is ultimately a public, objective fact. |
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Now that development threatens the playground of the elite they cry hands off. |
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Since illegal insider trading takes advantage not of skill but chance, it threatens investor confidence in the capital market. |
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Who dare call upon an ogreish super, even if the soaked bathroom floor threatens to collapse? |
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The closure threatens the supply of clean, sterile needles to local intravenous drug users. |
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This is the catalyst for a chain of events which threatens to destabilise the parliament. |
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All the animals on the farm reject the duck, until a twister threatens the henhouse, dropping the baby chicks in the river. |
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Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying. |
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Though the overcast sky threatens rain at some later point in the day, the early afternoon is still pleasant enough for sitting outdoors. |
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When Roderigo discovers that Iago has been hoarding his money he screams at Iago and threatens him. |
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The King is very close to the corner of the board and Black threatens checkmate in two! |
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A final blow, White now threatens checkmate in one move and Black is lost by force. |
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At this meeting, Quentin orders his sister's boyfriend to leave town by sundown, and threatens to kill him if he stays. |
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Despite the appearance she tries to convey, Nora holds a deep secret that threatens to destroy her happy home. |
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It seems her rage is misguided when she threatens to throttle the homewrecker rather than the wandering spouse. |
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Like so many horse operas, this is the story of an outlaw whose return threatens to destroy the bonds that hold a community together. |
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A general thrust of my argument is that the postmodern turn in anthropology threatens to be a paper tiger. |
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Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice. |
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Likewise, Lucan uses hyperbaton to suggest Erictho's agitation, as she threatens to reveal Persephone's darkest secrets. |
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As the persons trapped within the cube fall out and go their separate ways this hypercube's disintegration threatens their safety. |
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All day it threatens to rain, we get sudden cloudbursts, but only when we're indoors or in the car, never when we might get wet. |
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You've also threatened, or you've also mentioned that my relationship threatens my country and again I find that such a huge leap of illogic. |
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Now the latest cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to reel in entire schools of victims. |
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The situation will, in all probability, be aggravated by the summer season, which threatens to be severe this time. |
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And the economics of spam are only getting worse for those fighting a tide of rising junk mail that threatens to swamp users' in-boxes. |
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National threatens to dismantle workers rights to contest dismissal and also seek to reduce holiday entitlements. |
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I promise to pull my socks up this week, not least because without urgent attention, fat hen threatens to strangle all my seedlings. |
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What they have let loose is an almost indestructible creature that threatens everyone aboard. |
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To add extra indignity to his humiliation he is suffering from a bout of hiccups that threatens to enter the Guinness Book of Records. |
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When Mrs Munson stumbles onto their plot and threatens to notify the authorities, the felonious five decide to do her in. |
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This pest annually infests citrus in Texas, Mexico, and Central America and threatens California and Florida. |
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Now, as I write, Australia threatens to forcibly remove the ship from our waters and the ship's owner accuses us of piracy. |
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Peter Ruzicka, the new intendant of the festival, threatens to revive it for 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. |
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What is this decision that threatens to wipe out the Internet in one fell swoop? |
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Now, to the leak investigation that threatens to engulf a very big fish at the White House. |
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It also threatens social and political stability in France, and contravenes the rights which secularism and the Republic are supposed to protect. |
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The Internet is less controllable than governments might like, which threatens certain assumptions. |
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For example, a democratic polity cannot be militarily attacked unless it directly threatens other states. |
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Cicadas start to shrill, building to a crescendo that threatens to rupture eardrums. |
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A new form of fowlpox, he said, now threatens poultry production and requires a new vaccine strategy. |
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It is veteran versus tyro, wily old fox against bristling young cub, a man who has done it all against a boy who threatens to do it all. |
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Introduced reindeer and muskoxen have thrived to such a degree that heavy grazing now threatens to damage the fragile vegetation. |
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The situation worsens, and threatens the fragile peace and stability of an entire region. |
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While politicians froth that crime threatens our civilisation, what amazes me is how lawful we are. |
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As a result, cultural choice is increasingly restricted, and a bland sameness, deadly and soporific, threatens the cultural landscape. |
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Conquering new markets while preserving existing ones threatens brand loyalty. |
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The intimidation of political dissidents threatens the right of free speech for all and debases our traditions of civil liberty and tolerance. |
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For it threatens freedom in the name of the most debased conception of democracy. |
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When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult, but threatens the fabric of international society. |
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The result is fascinating, but the text is so dense with information that it threatens to be heavy and lugubrious. |
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He's certainly going to try, despite the escalating violence that threatens to engulf him. |
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The end of the text is almost an easy deus ex machina and threatens to undo the work. |
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Her ambition to have her star quality discovered is devastatingly dashed by a new arrival at the school who threatens to upstage her plans. |
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Meanwhile, the window cleaning industry is less than impressed with a development which threatens to leave them all washed up. |
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As I see her growing old everyday, a fear grips me, stings my heart and threatens to tear me apart. |
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Unpicked coffee beans are now spreading the Broca disease, which threatens to destroy next year's already diminished crop. |
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The task force wanted to address the problem that arises in certain instances when a patient threatens or endangers a psychologist. |
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This new action-heavy approach threatens to disgruntle hardcore fans of the series. |
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The code of conduct threatens penalties ranging from administrative sanctions and temporary suspension of duty, to rank downgrades and dismissal. |
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Sam must be seriously concerned at a goal drought that threatens to drag us into a relegation struggle. |
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Graham is well over it, though he is left with one of those dry coughs that threatens to last the winter through. |
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In a number of African countries, local laws and values permit abortion if a pregnancy threatens a woman's health. |
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Yet it is another horse who was in action at Aintree last week who threatens to take centre stage on Saturday. |
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This type of cost cutting threatens the health and welfare of local residents. |
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Mom loses her rag and threatens to get rid of him approximately twice a day, but he's still here. |
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Whenever he does call you a bad name or threatens to whip you or anything else, tell your mom ASAP and have her talk to him and again. |
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Our culture has aestheticized politics as well as war, and aestheticization now also threatens the art of architecture. |
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The second wave of outsourcing, which began in the 1990s, threatens white-collar service and information technology jobs. |
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It was, in truth, a compromise, and the working arrangement suddenly threatens to come crashing down at a stroke. |
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He has been denied his crown and denounced by the all-powerful Roman Empire and when he finds a state to grant him refuge, Rome threatens war. |
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The only thing that threatens the company, in fact, is a change in the game, an industry zig to the company's zag. |
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Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London. |
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Pride, a religious term for unbridled individualism, threatens the welfare of an orderly community. |
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Logistics threatens to become a ball and chain to operational flexibility. |
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But as business turns sour, his boss threatens to reassign him. |
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But now, he says, the Jonnie Williams mess threatens not just to defuse but to trump the McAuliffe ethics card. |
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What is this alien culture that threatens to infect Anglo-Americans? |
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Equally important, the diminution of the middle orders threatens one of the historic sources of economic vitality and innovation. |
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It threatens us intellectually, ideologically, morally, psychologically, and diplomatically. |
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An American psychiatrist based in Vienna begins an affair with one of his patients, and is drawn into an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy them both. |
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This is a place of high anxiety, a labyrinth where the protagonists become so confused by being mistaken for someone else that insanity threatens. |
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More ominously, there is a rising tide of discontent that threatens to turn the streets into war zones. |
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Poignant because there could be no more powerful illustration of the unavoidable fact that anti-Semitism threatens us all. |
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Only when such destruction threatens to derail the stock market and discredit the entire New Economy does the moral turpitude of top management become an issue. |
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So no ducking under the duvet, then, when your little monster threatens to waken the neighbours, if not the dead, with his wee-small-hours wake-up call. |
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The project threatens to forcibly evict the remaining 25.000 members of the Dard Shin people, who are strongly opposing the damming of the Gurez valley. |
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It threatens subjectivity by collapsing meaning, reminding us of the subject's necessary relation to death, corporeality, animality and maternal materiality. |
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For Rilke, the father's all-encompassing love is what drove the prodigal son away in the first place and what threatens to overwhelm and destroy him on his return. |
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After regaining control at Dundee United Jim McLean installs the family dog as manager and threatens to batter any journalist who says he's barking. |
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Already, the fracking revolution in the United States threatens Russian dominance on several fronts. |
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But in Syria, where Shia are a minority, a post-ISIS future threatens to freeze Iran out. |
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In a few years, maybe, you will have to do a little hand-to-hand combat with him in those wee bleak hours, when confidence threatens to drain away. |
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In one gated community, an old lady threatens to run us out off the premises. |
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This clientelism threatens the well-being and security of the urban and rural poor and prevents the state from obtaining funds for its developmental and revenue functions. |
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Manhattanites are concerned that a decade of Bloombergian rent increases now threatens their venerable dining scene. |
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The undertow of hopelessness threatens to lead many to despair. |
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With demand for corn growing, experts say the dead zone is likely to expand in coming years, an environmental hazard that threatens Louisiana's sea food industry. |
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It is an issue that threatens to tear asunder the world-wide Anglican Communion and it may even cause a split in the Church of Ireland, both North and South. |
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Chi, like Samantha, ends up becoming a transcendent being that threatens her relationship with a human. |
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This threatens to devaluate culture in a way these authors may not wish. |
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The presence of homeless youth threatens to spark feelings of empathy in people's hearts, awakening them to the fundamental injustices in the world they inhabit. |
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Inevitably, the kids come to adore him, and he enters their group in a local competition, a plan which an angry convocation of parents threatens to derail. |
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It has snared, or threatens to snare, millions of taxpayers in the middle class and above. |
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Technology, abetted by social media, threatens to imprison everyone in a solipsistic bubble. |
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Oddly, an ad that threatens other people to stop drinking milk lest their kid end up like my kid just sorta rubs me the wrong way. |
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For some people extending human control over genes is the supreme act of hubris and, like all hubris, threatens paradoxically not to elevate but to debase us. |
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The 44 eminences charge that Britain's apparent lack of transparency and accountability threatens to undermine whatever moral high ground there is left. |
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The Professor threatens to post again on this topic in the near future. |
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Thus this new format inevitably threatens the present system, in which employers get a tax deduction for financing pension funds for their workers. |
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One day, he stumbles across a mysterious orb whose very existence threatens the future of the universe. |
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But teachers rarely do this sort of thing, as it threatens their livelihoods and, besides, they are only sitting beside the neophyte musician for about an hour a week. |
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A feisty performance threatens to overwhelm some of her co-performers, but in a real test of her ability she plays her part without overshadowing the main leads. |
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Nausea is the next assault, a wave so powerful it threatens to rip out your insides. |
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When the Republic threatens you, their words are never empty. |
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The debacle threatens to stymie the country's dynamic agricultural sector. |
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This can only work if one channel member is in a highly dominant position, for example, when a supermarket threatens to delist a particular product line from its shelves. |
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If the widening of the wage differential is allowed to proceed unchecked, it threatens to create within our own country a social problem of major proportions. |
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Obstinate Pierre refuses to care about anything, even when a passing lion threatens to eat him. |
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The row threatens to sour relations between Prague and Washington. |
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Then there is the United States war on Iraq, the 21st Century version of 19th Century gunboat diplomacy which threatens to usher in a new era in international relations. |
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Once again, football's insatiable greed threatens to be its undoing. |
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So Nollywood burns bright and threatens to use up all the oxygen that the Ghanaians and others across Africa need to sustain their own film cultures. |
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The stage is constantly alive with the details of everyday life, but nothing looks fussy or threatens to interfere with the personalities who dominate the action. |
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He thinks the fling is kaput, even though Alex threatens suicide when he leaves. |
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Towns are also suffering badly from development which damages their individual character, is insensitively sited, or which threatens local businesses. |
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Her prescience and her instincts go unheeded, and the damage that she causes threatens to consume her altogether. |
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But it threatens to undermine the price discrimination regime which keeps textbooks expensive here and cheap abroad. |
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For an uncritical mentalist, no such indeterminacy threatens. |
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Rapid high passagework never threatens his technique or intonation. |
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Once again, Republican pusillanimity in the face of gun fanaticism threatens to gut sane gun legislation in Congress. |
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Anyone who's ever played road hockey has encountered the kid who bellyaches about not getting the ball enough and threatens to depart with his net if things don't go his way. |
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For many taxpayers, the amt is a nightmare that threatens their family budgets. |
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However, as the WHO report makes clear, antibiotic resistance is a growing problem that threatens the entire globe. |
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It is a revolutionary story, which threatens to upend the world as we know it. |
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Vernon ultimately locks bender in a storage closet and, in a moment of weakness, physically threatens him. |
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So the squirrelly university teach keeps a cool level head about circumnavigating the snares of conspiracy theory that threatens to mock his work. |
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And she memorably threatens her boys with a tire iron when they aim to strike out on their own. |
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The flaw in Beatriz's plan, of course, is that in the economy of desire such transgressive behavior threatens societal order and may cast her in the role of madwoman. |
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Others contend that transhumanism threatens humanity's very nature. |
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The hope, according to Rucker, is that Beck threatens to contaminate Fox News' overall brand. |
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His adventurism threatens to de-stabilize the entire region. |
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Evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, England still is the countryside, and any threat to its conservation is a scandal because it threatens Englishness itself. |
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He's a mean, mingy quasi nutcase curmudgeon who threatens players, gives them cold pricklies, and who demands attention to things like gameplan, tactics, and skills. |
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Lined with red, the black box poem enacts its filiation yet playfully threatens its ground, where the once white chickens are now floating black hens. |
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And he's riding the crest of a big-tent movement in the Republican Party that threatens to leave the increasingly ossified Democratic Party behind. |
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It even threatens such veteran horizontally integrated favorites as Scrabble, solitaire, and the crossword puzzle. |
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Flix is a master at sidestepping when the story threatens to become too serious. |
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The room is never cleaned, so her mother nags and nags until she explodes with frustration and threatens to sell her to the lowest bidder. |
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Human impact threatens many species, with greater threats expected as a result of climate change induced by greenhouse gases. |
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These two temples each contain a wrathful deity who threatens the guests who ride through in World War II troop transports. |
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Duckweed further threatens the local ecosystem by choking out other plants as it shades large portions of the lake. |
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Some assert that the dead zone threatens lucrative commercial and recreational fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Some degree of gene flow is a normal evolutionary process, nevertheless, hybridization threatens the existence of rare species. |
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Thor arrives and tells Loki to be silent, and threatens to rip Loki's head from his body with his hammer. |
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Thor again tells him to be silent, and threatens to throw him into the sky, where he will never be seen again. |
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Thor responds with a fourth call to be silent, and threatens to send Loki to Hel. |
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A threat is not immediate if the wrongdoer threatens to use force of violence some future time. |
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A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen. |
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One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience. |
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Canada lawyer Danny Kreklewich threatens to sue the government if his property gets damaged due to diverted floodwaters. |
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Now they must overcome a national embarrassment which threatens their chances of winning the World Championships Acapella in Copenhagen. |
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A eurozone that forever threatens to pull the world's economy underwater. |
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This possibility threatens the security of many information collections now residing in computer data bases. |
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But when a grizzly bear corners the other children and threatens to eat them, Boomer uses his gift to turn the tide and save the day. |
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A giant garbage heap threatens to break through the cybersite's dome, and the CyberSquad must become garbologists to reduce the rubbish. |
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She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill. |
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When a terrible drought threatens the land of Eretz Yisroel, two messengers come to the great tzadik to ask for his help in prayer to bring rain. |
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Anything over that threatens the long-term survival of species like the oceanic white tip, porbeagle and several kinds of hammerheads. |
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When heavy rain or frost threatens, Craig suggests picking underripe but full-size tomatoes and storing them in a paper bag with an apple. |
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This process, modeled on a literary genre, threatens his final immurement in the madness which is life as art. |
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Jacqui finds a way of satisfying the debt collector while Michaela threatens to spill the beans about Amy's pregnancy. |
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Meanwhile, Adam''s moralistic attitude threatens to affect his medical judgement when he treats a patient accused of assaulting an underage girl. |
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In 1983, researchers found that a prawnlike Caribbean stomatopod that has just molted still threatens intruders by waving a claw. |
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The economic meltdown that made him now threatens to unmake him. |
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Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica is an invasive species that threatens Jersey's biodiversity. |
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Oil pollution threatens species with restricted ranges or already depressed populations. |
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Habitat degradation also threatens marine mammals and their ability to find and catch food. |
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This species has become invasive in Australia, where it threatens native rare plants and causes erosion and soil slumping around river banks. |
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Sand threatens buildings and crops in Africa, the Middle East, and China. |
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While Lewisite never became the battlefield hazard that had originally been feared, variations of BAL continue to be used wherever arsenic threatens human health. |
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While whaling no longer threatens the species, individuals are vulnerable to collisions with ships, entanglement in fishing gear and noise pollution. |
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The film is taglined 'When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes', but as a welcomely unheroic picture it rarely threatens to truly take off. |
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A catastrophic bioterrorist attack using a strain of crude-petroleum eating bacteria on Saudi Arabia's largest oil reserve threatens disaster for the world's fuel supplies. |
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Or is it, on the contrary, an institution that persistently threatens, like a fast-growing riverweed, to choke the channels of public administration? |
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As in the medieval entry plays, however, none of these possible communities succeed in containing or integrating the disparateness which threatens the unity of the collective. |
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The import of the sweet water turtle Red-ear Slidder, for example, which threatens native species like the endangered caretta caretta turtle, would be prohibited. |
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Hunting alone threatens hundreds of mammalian species around the world. |
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There are those who spitball and say that there is judicial over reach and unnecessary activism which threatens the fabric of democracy as it was envisaged. |
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A MELTING permafrost peat bog stretching the size of France and Germany threatens to unleash vast amounts of powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, scientists warned. |
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Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box. |
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The practice of keeping wild animals as pets threatens several species. |
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The recent emergence of quinolone resistance among gonococci isolated in South Africa now threatens to undermine the success of the syndromic management approach to date. |
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Should Victor refuse his request, The Creature also threatens to kill Victor's remaining friends and loved ones and not stop until he completely ruins him. |
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Potter threatens to cut her daughter off, Beatrix reminds them of her brother, Bertram, who married a wine merchant's daughter and was not disowned. |
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In contrast to the original, however, the producers decided to centre Sherlock in their adaptation, so Sherlock only threatens to stay behind in London. |
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But given the realities of state malformation in Africa, ethnonationalism has become a powerful centrifugal force that threatens to unstitch already loose and brittle states. |
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He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication. |
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The Raid is a blitzkrieg of severed appendages and broken bones, which threatens to overdose even the greediest adrenaline junkie on blood-spurting thrills. |
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In addition, spam threatens to stifle some of the major benefits of services such as e-mail and e-commerce, as well as reduce consumer confidence in the Internet. |
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The artist's seriousness, which sometimes threatens to tip over into sententiousness, is balanced by the vein of dark comedy that runs through his work. |
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At the time of their first encounter, Raven threatens to kill Anne, but is surprised and disarmed by her acceptance of the harelip he thinks makes him look ugly. |
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The natural inclination of man is to seek freedom and happiness, and freedom necessarily threatens a rigid theocracy committed to a conformist doctrine. |
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Australia's little wattlebird threatens fetch the gun, fetch the gun. |
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