Ratings on $23.3 billion in debt may be cut to a level below investment grade unless progress is seen in the request to lower the requirement, Standard & Poor's said.
He hinted that the North would get no major economic aid unless progress was made in ending its nuclear weapons programs.
But its existence, if only in draft form, has given the Liberian government a look at what lies ahead unless progress is made toward halting the trafficking in diamonds and arms.
But all attempts to improve relations between the two countries are liable to founder fast unless progress is made on the most intractable issue: the fact that India controls the mainly-Muslim state of Jammu & Kashmir in apparent defiance of the wishes of its people.Kashmir holds all else hostage.
AT THE end of March, as a burst of fighting between Macedonian security forces and Albanian-nationalist rebels was dying down, the country's leading ethnic-Albanian politician, Arben Xhaferi, made a forecast: shooting would restart in four weeks unless progress were made towards righting his community's grievances.
In a brief passage from his playing days, for example, he recalls a flashpoint in the N.B.A.'s labor history, when before the 1964 All-Star Game in Boston, he and his fellow players threatened to boycott the game unless progress was made with owners toward a pension deal.
Norway agreed to its role before the conference started, said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, who said he met with Secretary Powell about three weeks ago to urge him not to attend unless progress was made on deleting the language that Israel opposed.
January 2011: As the Doha negotiations enter a tenth year, ahead of a meeting of trade ministers in Davos, WTO head Lamy warns tensions in the global currency markets threaten to spill over into protectionism unless progress is made on concluding the round.
The National Union of Teachers' conference has voted for a one-day strike in England and Wales in the week beginning on 23 June, unless progress is made in further talks.
History shows the very opposite of progress when it comes to these democratic sovereignty-shredding and job-exporting corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is referring to fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global corporations.
