For a decade from 1968, however, Brookmeyer mostly retired to the west coast studios as a session musician and staff arranger – years in which alcohol took charge of him to a life-threatening extent, until he dried out after rehabilitation in Los Angeles in 1976.
The Beijing regime has repeatedly announced its intention of squashing any Taiwan independence move, going to the extent of threatening to engage military action if it needs be.
This question has come to preoccupy many readers of Berlin's work, and predominate in discussions of his legacy, to the extent of threatening to overshadow other aspects of his thought.
IV13 Rural postnatal woman One participant spoke of the desperation of a woman who had conceived straight after her previous birth, even to the extent of threatening suicide.
Already, freedoms in Hong Kong have been threatened to an extent unprecedented even during the 150 years of British colonial rule.
The automotive industry's current woes are so severe, members of the local ruling class say, that they feel threatened to an extent they haven't before.
The 50th annual Red List, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, claims there are more than 22,000 animal species whose survival is to some extent threatened.
The conversion of natural habitat to urban settlements is a primary driver of biodiversity loss, and species' persistence is threatened by the extent, location, and spatial pattern of development.
The shift toward car-based sport utilities threatens to some extent the profitability of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler, which have earned up to $15,000 each in profits on some of the pickup-based models, which are much cheaper to design than car-based models and slightly cheaper to manufacture.
