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River flooding could close highways, potentially top levees and threaten some homes and businesses.

He said he had to threaten to resign to prevent the promised introduction of the first patient waiting times for treatment being abandoned.

The only organised opposition are the neo-fascists of the Jobbik party on the far right, suggesting that the opposition on the streets this week might challenge Orbán but not really threaten him.

There is something symbolically apt, for example, about the way the grotesque figure of the dead paedophile, Father Brendan Smyth, has returned to threaten the position of the head of the Irish church, Cardinal Sean Brady.

If he spoke out, he said, the management would threaten to call the US immigration department.

The ratings agency cited fragile and weakening banks as the main factor in its decision, stating: In order to maintain appropriate domestic bank capital levels, the Cypriot government will likely need to provide financial support to the country's banks that could threaten the sustainability of the government's debt burden So, who are the ratings agencies?

And Gordon Brown has made a bad situation worse – for himself too, as MPs threaten to resign or resort to legal advice.

In a statement released after his conversation with the US president he said: "A deal that is based on this framework will threaten Israel's existence.

He did threaten to call his little boy Slinky as he was born out of a tumble down the stairs, but Mick's not one to rush names.

David Cameron told the BBC that Sturgeon had made "a series of ransom demands" which would threaten Britain's defences by allegedly linking support for Labour with scrapping the new generation of Trident missiles.

"This event absolutely is not a harbinger of war, more likely it's a means of political pressure, to threaten war," he said.

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