For most rural young people material insecurity meant focusing on immediate daily concerns rather than a long-term threat: completing routine tasks, getting food, water and soap, and maintaining parents' approval and peers' respect.
Mr. Rushdie, who was scheduled to appear at the Jaipur festival, was forced to stay away because of threats against his life; some reports say the threats, complete with fabricated names of gangsters, were concocted to keep Mr. Rushdie from coming to Jaipur.
"But nobody wants to have the threat of complete bankruptcy looming over their head.
Facing the threat of complete annexation, the Lithuanian opposition gave in.
Under the new contracts A&E is under threat of complete collapse.
In the meantime, Greek banks remained closed, as the threat of complete financial collapse loomed for the country.
But the odd thing about Mr. Cage in this movie is that even when he is responding to the threat of complete human extinction, you still can't help feeling that he's overreacting.
Very early in this slump — basically, as soon as the threat of complete financial collapse began to recede — a significant number of people within the policy community began demanding an early end to efforts to support the economy.
Unhappiness can become a habit and it takes courage to let yourself be otherwise, as Alain de Botton's protagonist (see above) discovers when he's beset by 'anhedonia' – the terror arising from the threat of complete happiness.
This would all be bad enough without the threat of complete ecological catastrophe bearing down on civilization.
Meshing the employee-owners of United with the often disgruntled, costly employees of US Airways may prove a graver threat to completing the merger than anything thrown in the way by antitrust authorities.
