Stresses some funds suffered during the financial crisis threatened system-wide disruptions.
With the advance of technology, the power density (temperature) increases rapidly to threaten system performance, reliability, and even system safety.
If the court pushes on with its chainsaw, cutting down programs that trigger matching funds, it would threaten systems in Connecticut and Maine, and judicial-race financing systems in Wisconsin, North Carolina and elsewhere.
And different from the distant military threats of the Cold War, are we now exposed to threatening systems which seem to function only as long as they are deeply interwoven and are interfering with a civil society's private communication.
Almost by definition, trauma, loss, and major life changes create a crisis of meaning and can threaten systems of belief and personal identity.
The subsequent revolt by millions on the street, though quickly put down, again threatened the system's survival.
It has given us a dangerously threatened monetary system, an unfavorable balance of international payments, a sorely depleted gold reserve.
The arrival of the Americans and the industrialization they ushered in threatened the system and the ruling class that long benefited from it.
However, the advent of the side-firing gunship threatened the system.
That's why Everglades National Park exists; it was the first park created to protect a threatened ecological system.
While this system doesn't threaten our system of representative democracy, it certainly makes it harder for it to function well and regain the public's trust.
