Current economic trends threaten to undermine any progress made.

All these developments, aggravated by global recession, threaten to undermine the purposes of the United Nations.

But this logic failed to account for the political ramifications, which threaten to undermine European unity further.

Further delays in handing over the remaining three Palestinian cities and in releasing prisoners threaten seriously to undermine President Abbas.

The Taliban, while unable to undermine the October presidential elections in Afghanistan, continue to threaten the stability and reconstruction of the country.

The most serious problem today is that the country s ethnic tensions and recriminations threaten to undermine the cohesion of the fledgling, multiethnic Afghan Army.

They threaten a major protectionist backlash in the United States and Europe and they undermine the recovery in developing and emerging markets.

Indeed, a week before Rato s resignation announcement, the Fund asserted that it had the right to censure countries whose intervention policies threaten to undermine global economic stability.

The construction of the wall and the expansion of settlements seriously threaten the right to self determination of the Palestinian people and undermine prospects for Palestinian statehood.

It is well known that armed conflicts cause loss of life, force people to flee their homes, threaten peoples' basic human rights, undermine development and exacerbate poverty.

Unlike Egypt, however, whoever takes power in Libya will not necessarily inherit poor economic conditions that could threaten their legitimacy and undermine their popularity.

We have seen some in South Africa people who fear that their narrow interests may not be preserved under the new, democratic dispensation threaten to undermine that dispensation.

In fact, these high prices undermine, threaten and compromise the fight against poverty and all the goals that we have established and pledged to fulfil by the year 2015.

Moreover, these ongoing unlawful actions threaten the fragile ceasefire and calm that has been recently achieved by the Palestinian side and will seriously undermine efforts to revive the peace process.

Who am I to threaten?

Get heated, threaten to sue.

They dare to threaten you?

We are encouraged by the statement that the major industrialized countries are determined to curb protectionism and that no recourse will be made to initiatives and arrangements that threaten to undermine the open multilateral system.

How to Undermine an Alliance

Morales sympathizers threaten to erect roadblocks.

Authorities threaten to close Boys Town.

Socio economic imbalances, deeply imbedded in South Africa by decades of apartheid, also continue to plague the majority of the population and could threaten to undermine peaceful and stable development during the transition period and beyond.

We emphasize that such actions not only undermine the principles enshrined in the charter of the United Nations and international law, but also severely threaten the freedom of trade and investment.

Those weapons continue to interfere with conflict prevention measures, undermine the provision of humanitarian assistance, exacerbate armed conflict and insecurity, threaten security in refugee camps, and frustrate the sustainability of peace processes and peacebuilding efforts.

However, this demand for concurrent processes harbours the prospective danger that an achievement lag in either component, military or political, may tend to undermine confidence in the entire peace process and thereby threaten the understanding.

Indeed, as Security Council resolution 1566 (2004) reaffirms, acts of terrorism seriously impair the enjoyment of human rights, threaten the social and economic development of all States and undermine global stability and prosperity.

I don't threaten easily.

Threaten a few deadbeats.

Did he threaten us?

I did not threaten to kill your child.

This action aims to address the need for a concerted effort by the international community at both the institutional and civil society levels to bridge divides and overcome the prejudice, misperceptions and polarization that undermine trust and potentially threaten international security.

Nuclear Steps Undermine Peace

Both parties should concentrate on fulfilling their respective obligations and commitments and refrain from any and all unilateral actions which threaten to prejudge the outcome of final status negotiations and undermine efforts at building confidence on the ground.

Economic and financial nationalisms threaten.

These weapons threaten human existence.

Threaten your emperor, will you?

They reassure us, threaten us...

Second, the upheavals threaten to leave Israel more isolated.

They are bound to threaten global prosperity and stability.

Together with the lack of schools, problems of school drop out and economic pressure on local neighbourhoods, all these factors undermine community networks and social capital and threaten the traditional social controls in neighbourhoods and cities.

Global warming and sea level rise continue to threaten us.

I didn't want to punish him. So don't threaten him.

Today, two factors threaten America's recovery.

To Hamas, however, they appear to undermine its very raison d'etre.

If not, these forces will work to undermine the state.