Sentence examples for developments that threaten from inspiring English sources

Unprotected lake and wetland habitats are increasingly subject to developments that threaten their waters.

But LGBT organizations, the American government and the relatively powerful Armenian diaspora must unite in putting real pressure on the Armenian government to reverse the worrying anti-democratic and fascistic developments that threaten to completely engulf the country.

He has been involved in bringing public schools to the neighborhood and fought to scale back growth in commercial developments that threatened to overwhelm the area.

But a closer look reveals evidence of the residential development that threatens to overwhelm the East End's open spaces.

Local residents and preservationists are challenging this decision in court.Re-enactors detest a development that threatens the ground they revere.

Some countries and food processors are demanding only nonmodified crops, a development that threatens American farm exports, unless the identity of varieties can be guaranteed.

But Iran could take advantage of this inevitably slow process to build a weapon.The other development that threatens the West's interests is happening around Iran.

But claims the practice has allegedly been employed to remove problem prisoners before inspections is a new and serious development that threatens to plunge the Prison Service into crisis, especially if it triggers further suggestions that the practice is widespread.

The islands that cover about a third of Jamaica Bay's 9,000 acres are losing marsh grass at an alarming rate, a development that threatens to disrupt the entire bay ecosystem.

But a body of recently published scholarship suggests that the achievement gap between rich and poor children is widening, a development that threatens to dilute education's leveling effects.

Thousands have taken to the streets across Tunisia to protest the killing of opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi in the capital Tunis – a development that threatens to derail a transition to democracy in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.