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

Terrorism is an existential threat.

PARIS Ten or 20 years ago, the existential question facing the European Union was whether it still had a purpose in a globalized world. The question today is whether the EU can respond effectively to major external shocks.

Indeed, its existential essence rendered it politically untranslatable.

But the mutually reinforcing recession and debt crisis that Spain now faces have reinvigorated Catalonia s long standing secessionist movement austerity has transformed a chronic, though manageable, problem into an acute existential question.

And it raises an existential question, which is, if I'm having this experience of complete connection and full consciousness, why am I not visible in the photograph, and where is this time and place?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It is as if Moshe Dayan s old existential political philosophy is being brought back to life.

Likewise, Europe s latest existential identity crisis is again creating a great deal of policy uncertainty and unpredictability.

But only Europe s currency union faces uncertainty about its future America faces no existential crisis for its currency.

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

Consider, for example, the biggest challenge facing us, which deserves to be called existential global warming and climate change.

But the existential challenge political agreement on the key elements of banking and fiscal union is only just beginning.

The eurozone is gripped by an existential crisis that is slowly, but inexorably, destroying the monetary union s very foundations.

NEW YORK As Pakistan atrophies in its existential crisis, a fundamental question about the nature of the country is coming to the fore Are the country s citizens Pakistanis who happen to be Muslims, or are they Muslims who happen to be Pakistanis? Which comes first, flag or faith?

The existential and social and political impact an artist has on his nation's development of cultural identity is very important.

We may debate the means by which it was pursued, and how successfully, but Russia s existential challenges were largely overcome.

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

Nevertheless, whichever direction the euro crisis takes, its ultimate resolution will end the extreme existential uncertainty that clouds the outlook today.

Aron wrote cool, sleek prose about the most heated geopolitical conflicts, while Sartre could turn any triviality into an existential crisis.

This is the language of existential war, the most dangerous kind. Indeed, the terminology of World War II is being deliberately revived.

Defending Israel against its Islamic enemies may indeed be a factor in the existential alarmism that underlies the present war on terror.

And yet one senses among elites from emerging countries something akin to existential doubt, which the European crisis has served to reinforce.

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.

Ultimately, the spiritual gloom and existential dread that we have come to associate with Eastern Europe are merely an extension of our own.