Sabra Zoo serves as a timely reminder of the humanitarian disaster that continues to threaten the majority of Palestinians living in camps, and the precarious existence of displaced persons the world over.
Not only would that be terrible for the country -- it threatens the majority status of the Democratic Party.
Which brings us back to that opinion poll: When asked what most threatened them, the majority of Chinese cited non-traditional threats, like climate change, water and food shortages.
The original route of the DAPL took it north of Bismarck, threatening the white majority's source of drinking water.
The responsible stressors identified to date for aquatic systems include morphological degradation, high nutrient concentrations, pesticides, suspensions, and organic pollution, which threaten biota in the majority of streams worldwide.
"They've threatened the rights of the majority of people to try to control the conduct of a few, and that's just beyond the balance".
With a broad array of populist programs, he mobilized the electoral power of the country's rural majority, threatening the traditional domination of an established elite that includes the bureaucracy and military.
Mr. Brown's victory, in a special election for the seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy, was full of substantive and symbolic significance, costing Democrats their 60-seat Senate majority and threatening the passage of the national health care bill that Mr. Kennedy had once championed.
It's expected to be the most contentious Supreme Court nominee hearing in decades, as the conservative Kavanaugh, Trump's second SCOTUS nominee since he took office, could flip the court to a conservative majority, potentially threatening the standing of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
In return, Congressional Republicans yelled "no tradebacks" over and over in front of the TV cameras; House Republicans gave the already-compromised Stimulus Bill exactly 0 votes; and Senate Republicans threatened to not even allow the majority of the Senate to vote on the Bill by filibustering.
