Europe s Triple Threat

The threat is economic rather than military.

Any woman who objected was hit and threatened with death.

By guile and by bluster, by night and by day, I battered and scattered the fools from my way.

They were all Muslims, the friends who helped me decorate the tree.

Since the early twentieth century, Mexicans have felt worried and threatened by American strength.

Journalists and other opinion makers were the victims of homicides and threats by illegal armed groups.

(k) Alleged reprisals, intimidation and threats received by persons reporting acts of torture and ill treatment

Subject matter Fair trial in criminal contempt case, torture, death threats and personal security

And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.

(g) Alleged reprisals, intimidation and threats against persons reporting acts of torture and ill treatment

The threat that this would represent is not abstract the Kingdom s borders are very porous.

Indeed, the parallels between financial crises and the threat of cyber meltdowns are striking.

He was ordered to stand on one leg for four hours. He says he was beaten repeatedly, as threats were made to rape his mother and sisters.

Critical Mass addressed issues of terrorism and the threat from weapons of mass destruction two years before the events of 9 11.

The al Saud face two threats one from violent Islamists, and the other from liberal reformers.

But peace and quiet based on tanks and the threat of air strikes cannot be enough.

In certain situations, weakness and the threat that a partner will collapse can be a source of bargaining power.

Admittedly, Obama inherited a collapsing financial system, a declining world order, and the ever present threat of global terrorism.

The Japanese government also sought to improve the country's civil defenses in response to the Doolittle Raid and the threat of further attacks.

The project is being pursued in the face of strong Egyptian objections military intervention has been threatened yet it continues apace.

The most significant threats to the security of United Nations staff and operations continue to be physical attacks, threats, robbery and theft.

Climate change also represents a case study of how we can make a virtue out of a necessity, and an opportunity out of a threat.

To deny this, to threaten to undo Polish German reconciliation, is to harm Poland s fundamental national interests.

The significant threat posed by MANPADs has been acknowledged globally measures to prevent their diversion must be strengthened.

2.5 The author claims that, whilst being interrogated on the day of his arrest, he was beaten, threatened and insulted, and was not provided with a lawyer.

Determined to vigorously oppose foreign domination, threat, aggression, alien occupation, coercion, intimidation and pressure against the Member States

Now it is us the supposedly hostile West and the threat posed by color revolutions to Russia s hard won stability.

Responsibility was also attributed to the guerrilla groups in selective killings of and death threats against public officials, teachers and indigenous persons, among others.

2.3 In early January 1999 the complainant was detained at a police station, where he was ill treated and threatened with death.

For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.

One reason is the continued division of the Korean Peninsula and the threat that a nuclear armed North Korea poses to its own people and its neighbors.

It is not a coincidence that the most impoverished regions are the ones suffering the most protracted conflicts, where human rights are often trampled and threatened.

Rather than relying on sanctions and threats of force, the idea is to underpin long term prosperity in today s unstable regions.

The audience was convinced by these arguments, so disconnected were they from the realities of the Arctic summer storms, fogs, high humidity, and ever present threat of ice formation.

PRINCETON The most recent phase of the financial crisis, since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, has been characterized by large bank losses and the continued threat of bank collapses.

It includes acts that inflict physical, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of liberty .

According to the study, detainees are held in solitary confinement, forced to give birth in prison cells, tortured, verbally and sexually abused and threatened.

What followed were many hours of harassment, humiliation, threats with live hand grenades, shots fired at the feet of one of our colleagues, and looting and ransacking of the IRC premises.

Now when US politicians talk about freedom, people see bombing campaigns, torture chambers, and the constant threat of lethal drones.

Iran s war rhetoric and threat to inflict a deadly blow on Israel is served by dispatching a drone in the general direction of Dimona.

Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

Asian governments will probably gradually lose their battle in this war in 2011, allowing their currencies to appreciate in the face of inflationary pressures and threats of trade retaliation.

Maintaining these profits requires a population conditioned by this theater of fear to submit to anything even the sexual quasi abuse of themselves and their children.

Reports also continued to be received of abuses of women and children attributed to paramilitary groups, in particular rape, threats, torture, selective killings, imposition of codes of conduct and sexual slavery.