(In the field of conservation, the term threatened has a specific, technical meaning.
Only two weeks ago, Mr Suharto, who is expected to seek another five-year term, threatened to "clobber" anyone who tried to unseat him.Mr Bintang's calls for a boycott struck a raw nerve with the authorities.
It was reminiscent of how Mr. Clinton focused like a laser on opening Japan's markets in his first term, threatening sanctions if American carmakers were not given access.
So far, Mr. Bush has been reluctant to begin a major study of the intelligence assessments about Iraq, a study that adherents say would make sure that similar misjudgments are not made regarding other nations that could, in the long or short term, threaten American security.
Another focused on indigenous lawsuits against the tar sands, which, over the long term, threaten thousands of tar sands permits.
Participants also suggested alternative wordings on the translation of item 1 and 10, and suggested the translation of the term "threatened with commitment" in item 10 into a literal meaning of "threatened by applying law for compulsory admission" in Chinese.
Unfortunately for the administration, one of the deal's chief critics is Bob Livingston, the newly elected House speaker.In sum, the United States-Japan military alliance is not in great shape; and economic pressure on the Japanese, however justified on its own terms, threatens further to disfigure it.
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.
"Actually, as a black Angeleno, I feel in no uncertain terms threatened by such".
(Eagleton 1991: 7 8).... if there are no values and beliefs not bound up with power, then the term ideology threatens to expand to vanishing point.
