Terrorism is an existential threat.

Israel s nuclear deterrence is its ultimate defense against an existential threat.

All States should support their initiative to address this existential threat.

It has been said without exaggeration that Pakistan faces an existential threat.

They regard Iran and thus Maliki s closeness to it as an existential threat.

For Israel, war with Iran is not about neutralizing an existential threat it is about reasserting its regional status.

This partly reflected the existential threat that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, represented in so many people s minds.

The BJP s strategy of painting the Congress as soft on terror and demonizing Muslims as an existential threat to India badly misfired.

The extremists wanted to silence the majority that was waking up to the existential threat that radical Islam poses to their country.

The rise of Iran poses an existential threat to Saudi Arabia, because the country s oil rich northeast is populated by a Shi a majority.

World leaders' attention would be riveted on that existential threat, collective security mechanisms could be discredited and hard won freedoms and human rights could be compromised.

It would reemerge continuously, despite heavy repression over short periods of times, raising the kinds of challenges that pose an existential threat to any non democratic government.

On its own, terrorism is hardly an existential threat. What is catastrophic is the collapse of state structures in many of the countries from which the terrorists come.

The protest movement that gathered in Tiananmen that year posed an existential threat to the Communist Party state, proclaimed in that very spot 40 years earlier by Mao Zedong.

Likewise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt s foreign policy objectives and style were modest and incremental in his first presidential term, but became transformational in 1938 when he decided that Adolf Hitler represented an existential threat.

Indeed, its existential essence rendered it politically untranslatable.

In Netanyahu s view, solving the Palestinian problem would not remove the Iranian challenge rather, it is the neutralization of that existential threat that would pave the way to the creation of a Palestinian state.

Rather, it will emerge from a concept that addresses existential needs.

A second similarity is that both institutions face deep existential crises.

For all, a perilous existential moment is increasingly close at hand.

And the answer, of course, that we keep being given is as follows we're told that we went into Afghanistan because of 9 11, and that we remain there because the Taliban poses an existential threat to global security.

Even the aid agencies, who begin to receive an enormous amount of money from the U.S. and the European governments to build schools and clinics, are somewhat disinclined to challenge the idea that Afghanistan is an existential threat to global security.

But in a context where the EU remains too remote from citizens and where apathy and confusion define the referendum campaign, the No side has cleverly packaged its message of Europe as an existential threat to Irish jobs, investment and sovereignty.

The violence in the North Caucasus is becoming less a serious regional conflict and more an existential threat to the entire Russian Federation an evolution that reflects almost all of the mistakes, failures, and crimes of the post Soviet leadership.

To maintain their influence, it seems, they believe that they need to create an image of America as Russia s implacable enemy, which, by extending NATO membership to ex communist countries, is bringing an existential threat right to the country s doorstep.

To be fair, such an existential philosophy was not the right s monopoly.

Now we have awakened to an existential crisis for the common currency.

And I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me.

The only thing you should focus on would be to reduce existential risk because even the tiniest decrease in existential risk would just overwhelm any other benefit you could hope to achieve.

Stories accompany me, keeping my pieces and memories together, like an existential glue.

In their desperate pursuit of contentment, the French express a profound existential malaise.

Europe s moral purpose today is an existential question that all Europeans must consider.

General Motors, faced with an existential crisis, has sought to transform its business model.

We saw another turning point on a second issue of existential importance nuclear disarmament.

Each of these pillars is needed if Europe is to overcome its existential crisis.

In our lifetimes, we have seen a welcome change from the darkest days of the Cold War, when a devastating conventional and nuclear war in Europe was a real possibility, to a new era in which no state faces this type of existential threat.

Put aside the familiar arguments that the science is clear, that climate change represents an indisputable existential threat to the planet, and that every day we do not act the problem grows worse. Instead, let us make the case purely on bread and butter economics.

The uniquely dangerous combination of a nuclear Iran, which seeks to inspire the Shia in the Gulf states to rise up against their Sunni masters, coupled with Ahmedinejad s millenarian mysticism, poses an existential threat to Israel, which Ahmadinejad has threatened to wipe off the map.

By 2013, an Israel that rightly or wrongly perceives Iran s nuclear program to be an existential threat, and or the US, which has rejected containment of a nuclear Iran, may decide to strike, leading to a war and a massive spike in oil prices.

That is the existential issue confronting the world, to which our response remains hopelessly inadequate.

Should Iran manage to become a nuclear power, the Saudis existential fears would dramatically escalate.

Several major pension funds and foundations in the United States and Europe have recently made the move. They have wisely heeded the words of the former CEO of oil giant BP, Lord Browne, who recently noted that climate change poses an existential threat to the oil industry.

In reality, the one thing that non democratic regimes can never tolerate is independent workers organizations. That is why trade unionists were the first through the gates of Dachau, and why Poland s Solidarity movement posed an existential threat to Communist power throughout the former Soviet bloc.

Meanwhile, Israel s genuine, if arguably exaggerated, existential anxiety helps to explain its strategy of nuclear opacity.

It is now mired in an existential crisis more profound than at any point since 1945.