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threatens

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Seats where Ukip threatens the Tories: Thanet South (where Nigel Farage is standing for Ukip).

White threatens to take on b5, winning another pawn and at the same time liberating knight and bishop, so Black's first move looks obvious: 1…b4, exploiting the pin on the long diagonal and threatening to capture on c3.

Indeed, the aggregate information that we seek threatens privacy far less than the scrubbed anecdotes that Google has already released, or the notifications that it is giving to webmasters registered with Google webmaster tools.

This threatens the established parties: in a world where governments seem to have so little power to solve problems and improve our lot, what does it matter who is in charge?

Moody's predicted political instability in the Netherlands for the rest of 2012, and also warned that the collapse of Mark Rutte's government also threatens Europe's drive for closer, tighter, fiscal unity: As one of the euro area's main proponents of rules-based fiscal discipline and monitoring, a Dutch failure to abide by these rules could weaken proposed euro area rules at their birth.

Greenpeace Reef Campaigner Louise Matthiesson said the decision was "one more body blow for the reef which further threatens marine life, its World Heritage status and Australia's tourism and fishing industries".

I'm writing from home now, as I start my maternity leave and everything that is calm and still in the world threatens to collapse around me like that bit in Inception.

One of the gang members threatens Hogan and his new squeeze with a blade while he demands money from the couple.

His appointment threatens to derail efforts by UN envoy Bernardino Leon to relaunch a political dialogue in Libya, which has rival governments and parliaments and is flush with armed militias.

In the article, Blair directly addresses the chaos left in the wake of the invasion when he argues: "All over the region and including in Iraq, where exactly the same sectarianism threatens the right of the people to a democratic future, such a campaign [for tolerance of other religious views] has to be actively engaged.

Related: The Guardian view on Turkey: growing autocracy threatens a crucial country | Editorial To change the system, the AKP needs a two-thirds, or 367-seat, majority enabling it to rewrite the constitution.

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