Spain is facing an unprecedented depression, which is putting at risk its very existence as a country.
J. C. Penney "is at a very critical stage in its history and its very existence is at risk," Ackman wrote in a follow-up letter on Friday.
Drastic cuts to programming at the English National Opera threaten its very existence, a group of leading composers and conductors has said.
The biggest complaint about the new place — aside from its very existence, at such a staggering cost — has been the drab grayness, as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike or Route 3 or any other artery.
In "At Berkeley," Wiseman, looking admiringly at the historic seat of student radicalism, comes up against the impossibility of a radical university — because real radicalism isn't something that responsible administrators unwilling to renounce the proper administration of the university itself, and maybe even to put its very existence at risk, can foster.
Nonetheless, Israel, believing that its very existence is at stake — and this is a feeling shared by most Israelis across the political spectrum — will certainly make the effort.
Leaders would be acting irresponsibly if they failed to employ the EU's borrowing capacity when its very existence is at stake.
Brad DeLong holds a faculty position at a state university that owes its very existence to an American war of aggression against Mexico, in a country whose founding documents were written by slaveowners, on a continent that was ruthlessly expropriated from its indigenous population.
Perhaps brud wants to make these critiques through its very existence — or at least use its low-brow as high-brow (or is it vice versa?) intellectual appeal as a veneer over the more crass (but potentially honest) mission of selling more shit more effectively through the use of spokespeople whose views only change when their creators want them to (it worked for Hollywood's star system).
