The regular change of leadership and key personnel both within the government and NGO was a challenge, threatening the continuity of activities and level of understanding of the project's aims and activities.
The chief minister, Prithviraj Chavan, compared the killing of the rationalist to the murder of India's most revered figure, saying that "just as Gandhi was killed by those who could not digest his thoughts…[Mr Dabholkar] too was eliminated".Who did so remains unclear, though the law he advocated must have threatened the lucrative activity of various local groups.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07270.001 Damaged DNA threatens the normal activity of living cells, so cells use a number of mechanisms to ensure that this damage is repaired.
35 Bone loss and arthralgia are associated with AI treatment and, depending on severity, may threaten the daily activities of patients.
That latter force, in turn, spent more than a decade conducting covert or "black" ops "to prevent insurgent activities from threatening the authority and sovereignty of" the Afghan government.
Kīlauea's ecological community is additionally threatened by the activity of the volcano itself; lava flows often overrun sections of the volcano's forests and burns them down, and volcanic ash distributed by explosive eruptions often smothers local plant life.
It has been suggested that the Na'vi, the indigenous race whose land is threatened by the activities of a powerful mining organisation in James Cameron's movie Avatar, were based on the Kondhs.
Her quiet call to arms is summed up in these words: "It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.
Sam Gejdenson, a former House Democrat from Connecticut who serves on the NDI board, said that certain players in the Middle East may have felt threatened by the activities of the regional office.
Although the origin of life on Earth is still a matter of debate, naturalist Rachel Carson wrote in The Sea Around Us that "it is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.
It can hence be anticipated that UNICEF's pulling out of this project component would not significantly threaten the continuation of activities.
