UNICEF is concerned that a failure of negotiations could lead to increased peril for all the children of the region.
More urgently, though, it has to safeguard the country's territory, its people and its political independence against the increasing perils of external threats, international adventurism and internal strife.
Although the Chinese workers in Egypt were later released, the two abductions have highlighted the increasing perils that China's 5.5 million overseas workers face as Chinese companies expand their operations in some of the world's least hospitable places.
Improvements in technology (especially access to cellphones) and infrastructure (especially better roads) have also made it easier to discover and reach jobs in new places, fueling the classic urge to improve one's lot without the obstacles and increasing perils of the trek north.
Here are the most notable movie one-handers, ranked in order of increasing peril.
The Belgian film "Our Children," a standout from Cannes directed by Joachim Lafosse, stars Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup in a story of longtime male friends and the young woman (Émilie Dequenne) who, to her increasing peril, unwittingly comes between them.
Elphicke said lorry drivers passing through Calais faced increasing peril from people seeking to get on to their trucks using desperate measures, and that France and Britain need to cooperate to remove the so-called Jungle camp near the French port, a base for thousands of people seeking to reach the UK.
Policymakers, instead of heeding these economic risk and security threat assessments, are putting their states, and thus the country, at increasing peril.
The president's forceful messages recognize that the crisis at hand is about much more than one nation's membership in the EU, but rather about protecting a global economy still fragile from the effects of the financial crisis and ensuring the strength of the Western alliance in these times of increasing peril.
