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It is Apollo's intimate parts that, in Khudyakov's opinion, pose a dire problem.

IHS Screen Digest TV research analyst Guy Bisson says Netflix and other over-the-top (OTT) services pose a "dire competitive threat" to pay TV operators, which could lose their subscribers to lower-cost internet-delivered services available on a variety of devices.

Since the Leveson report was published in November his paper has been among those arguing most vociferously that any form of statutory underpining for a new regulator, as suggested by Lord Justice Leveson, would pose a dire threat to press freedom.

The presence of occult metastases at the time of diagnosis together with the lack of effective chemotherapies pose a dire need for designing new and targeted therapeutics for pancreatic cancer.

A climate change agreement committed 195 nations to curb emissions that pose a dire threat to the entire world.

If conserving elk is their goal, clearly such slob-hunters pose a dire threat to that goal.

Beijing is adamant that granting concessions to any Tibetans, even Tibetans in exile, poses a dire threat.

TWO years ago today, the Chinese government outlawed Falun Gong, saying the spiritual movement posed a dire threat to social stability.

But he is skeptical that the Iraqi government poses a dire threat to the world, even if it is hiding stockpiles of chemical and biological agents.

Given the arid, vegetation-sparse, and rocky landscape of the desert nation, the rainfall from Chapala posed a dire threat, with as many as 1 million people affected.

HONG KONG — A prominent New Zealand economist has set off a storm by suggesting that cats should eventually be eliminated from his country, claiming that they are posing a dire threat to native bird species.