These represent a major threat to stability in Sierra Leone.

It is a major and urgent issue. The weaponization of outer space is a real and major threat.

Indeed, America s major threat is from within.

Indeed, weakening banking conditions are emerging as a major threat to the eurozone s recovery and stability.

Under these conditions, export led growth by major economies is a threat to the world economy.

Environmental protection is a threat that is a major challenge in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Even by this point in the war, the Persian navy still posed a major threat to Alexander.

Terrorism poses a major threat to global peace, as does the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

On the other hand, illegal forest related activities continue to be a major threat to sustainable forest management.

Iran, depicted by the Bush administration as a major threat, is a military dwarf, spending 6.6 billion on its military.

Mr. Muchemi (Kenya) said that transnational crime remained a major global threat whose negative effects could not be overstated.

Worried about the threat to its left flank in Bastogne, it organized a major combined arms attack to seize Noville.

The deployment of weapons in outer space is a major and genuine threat, the consequences of which would be multiple.

Disasters remain a major threat to the survival, dignity, livelihood and security of peoples and communities, in particular the poor.

Rich countries could justify the expense in terms of the savings that would result from early detection of a major threat.

They posed a direct threat to life and limb, inhibited the safe delivery of humanitarian assistance, and presented a major obstacle to sustainable development.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction continues to be another issue posing a major threat to the system of collective security.

And yet desertification is a major threat on all continents, affecting some 110 countries and about 70 percent of the world's agricultural drylands.

The fact that there has been no major nuclear terrorist attack should not lull us into a fall sense of security. The threat remains.

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

Civil wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.

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.

Under the National AIDS Control Programme (NAP) the underlying approach is that HIV AIDS is not just a health issue but a major threat to human security.

As we are discussing disarmament and security, I would like to draw attention to aggressive separatism as a major threat to international peace and security.

That may not be surprising, but it is deeply troubling, because children s exposure to violence is a major threat to their physical, emotional, and cognitive development.

The actions taken to preserve the stratospheric ozone layer provide an example of remarkable success of scientific and political cooperation in addressing a major environmental threat.

The non transparent exploitation of these resources has become a major threat to the country's sovereignty and deprives the State Treasury of substantial sums of money.

Without such reforms, the nexus between drugs and terrorism will continue to be a major threat to Afghanistan's national security and to the Government's effective functioning.

There was consistent recognition that terrorism was a major threat to international peace and security and uniform condemnation of it, in all its forms and manifestations.

This major potential threat to financial stability has been alleviated, but not eliminated, by the ECB s large scale provision of liquidity.

With the advent of globalization, terrorism and terrorist groups became a major threat to international peace and security (see Security Council resolutions 1368 (2001) and 1371 (2001)).

It was noted that alternative development would be appropriate if there was a clear threat of overflow of cultivation from other major areas affected by illicit crop cultivation.

Many delegations and representatives of international organizations and non governmental organizations underlined that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing constituted a major threat to the sustainable development of fisheries.

After WWII Germany and Japan were the defeated aggressors, the Soviet Union posed a major threat, and China was engulfed in a civil war that would bring Mao's Communists to power.

The growing numbers of young men and women who lack prospects of ever being able to work for a decent living are a major threat to the future of this subregion.

All agree that the HIV and AIDS pandemic has emerged as a major threat to development, reversing, as it does, all the gains that have been made so far.

Islam is a threat.

The United Nations peacekeepers at one checkpoint objected to the presence of the monitors as a security threat, but they were allowed to remain at the two other major checkpoints.

The Damascus meeting reflects Iran s view of Israeli Arab peace as a major strategic threat, because it would condemn it to isolation in a hostile Arab environment free of its conflict with Israel.

The international consensus against Al Qaida and the Taliban remains firm, helped by a common understanding of the high level of the threat and of the international consequences of a successful major attack.

It is indeed astonishing that, in the report, that major and emerging security threat has been totally neglected and that the paradigm of dialogue among civilizations, already approved by this Assembly as the most efficient means to tackle the growing threat of a clash, has been overlooked.

The last threat to Roman hegemony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of Pyrrhus of Epirus in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well.

They are convinced that, even if Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime falls, Iran will be able to destabilize the country in such a way that would pose a major security threat to Israel.

A threat to the youth

There is again a major economic problem, the end of a credit driven boom, and a threat to the banks (except that it all looks much bigger, owing to the financial system s massive growth and internationalization).