Hence, the danger to Israel lay in the Sisyphean effort to subjugate the Palestinians.

Many in the Japanese Army initially regarded the Soviet Union as the main threat facing the country.

And the unemployed young face the additional risk of becoming a lost generation.

Iran's current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected two years ago to face the foreign threat of having Iran considered a part of the 'axis of evil'.

But it is Iraq (another country about which the US needs to show the utmost concern) that now faces the gravest spillover effects.

The Threat to Public Health

That is the second major challenge facing Haiti.

But crop insurance suffers from what economists call a moral hazard, because it reduces farmers incentives to ensure the crop s success.

Indeed, America s major threat is from within.

Pakistan remains India s single biggest challenge.

The third challenge for Lagarde concerns the circumstances of her election.

Zimbabwe is not the only country facing that dire prospect.

Humanitarian threat posed by ERW

But the challenge for them is much bigger and the process slower.

The continuing absence of such policies is the gravest threat to the euro.

The threat to coastal communities, food security and irreplaceable biodiversity and natural resources, which are shared by all the nations and peoples of the earth, is too high a price to pay for the short term profits of subsidized longline fishing.

There are no substantial grounds for believing that someone is at risk of torture unless it is established that he or she personally will run such a risk in the State to which he or she will be returned.

That is the challenge facing American public intellectuals today.

The Maldives is the only country experiencing such a funding gap.

The energy challenge that confronts Europe calls for an ambitious and courageous approach.

The same can be said for the challenge facing the democratic left.

Five or six years hence, the world economy faces the danger that it faced two years ago, although the fear this time is not of a sudden crash in the dollar s value, but of a sudden crash in the value of the dollar and the euro against Asian currencies.

But the biggest challenge for countries such as Italy or Spain remains competitiveness.

The greatest systemic risk to the global economy, far greater than that associated with any financial institution, is the explosion of public debt.

A second danger concerns the regional consequences of North Korea s test.

Yet there remains a danger that this positive progress can still be undermined.

Currently, the only clearly inherited risk factor is alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency (AAT).

This is not the only, or even the most important, downside risk facing the global economy.

The second threat to economic recovery is high oil prices.

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

This threat to seafarers and the shipping industry is of great concern to my Government.

Many researchers believe that the threat to life and property from NEOs, when averaged over long periods, is comparable to that from more familiar natural hazards such as earthquakes and extreme weather events.

Bernanke Meets the Press

Gore has an unshakable faith that climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world. To be fair, he deserves some form of recognition for his resolute passion.

The challenge for China is implementation, which means reform and systemic change.

A year ago, the euro zone s most important challenge was anemic economic growth.

The challenge for South Korea stems from the inevitable tradeoff between legitimacy and workability.

But the new regime, facing continued unrest, eventually allowed multi party democracy.

The key challenge in the provision of such technical assistance is twofold firstly, to increase the number of technical assistance projects.

The danger inherent in Bangladesh s course is very real.

The true risk implied by the US deal with Russia lies elsewhere.

Banditry has become the main threat to civilians and to humanitarian activities in Darfur, with highway robbery, kidnapping, burglary, theft and armed attacks occurring on a regular basis.

Pools of Danger

States of Risk

The biggest challenge Asians face is to use their intellectual and political leadership to save the world and themselves.