Another focused on indigenous lawsuits against the tar sands, which, over the long term, threaten thousands of tar sands permits.
Third, what Israel continues doing in the West Bank and Gaza is losing it sympathy far and wide, and in the medium- to long-term threatening its very existence.
There is evidence that in long term, life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer, preservation of trust and hope within the professional-patient relationship, is crucial in determining whether or not patients make best use of effective treatments (Barnes et al, 2007).
There are just two hitches: activism is stirring up resistance among managers and nobody is sure if it is a way to make money.Activists come in many stripes: short- and long-term; threatening and engaging; discreet and very, very public.
In the long term, the sequester threatens to cut out a generation of basic biomedical research.
Long term, the deficit threatens the strength of the dollar and the reliance on cheap imports and capital from abroad to help fuel the domestic economy.
It was not until my long term health was threatened that I considered not playing anymore.
The trillion dollar bailouts provided to the banks have plunged our national economies into long-term debt, threatening deep cuts to public services and the loss of thousands of public sector jobs.
Immediate demand for bluefin has far outpaced efforts for long-term management threatening the persistence of this species triad.
Forest elephants are increasingly confined and constrained by roads across the Congo Basin which is reducing effective habitat availability and isolating populations, significantly threatening long term conservation efforts.
The E.P.A. is scrambling to find funds for this year's planned cleanups, but lack of long-term financing threatens to stop or slow future work.
