And we recognized the value of national negative security assurances -- assurances that the United States and other nuclear powers have made that we will not threaten -- use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against other state -- non-nuclear weapon states who are in full compliance with their NPT, nuclear non-proliferation obligations.
In a video message to the High-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
In his video message during the high-level segment, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
Whether or not you consider obesity a disease or a disorder, rising rates of Type II diabetes and other obesity-linked complications threaten the long-term economic health of our country.
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Ironically, the American Civil Liberties Union, often a target for the commentator's jibes, has sided with him, saying revelation of the records could threaten doctor-patient confidentiality.
Christensen's 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, describes how new, low-quality products can threaten established ones--such as Nintendo toy cameras threatening mighty Kodak.
America had no option whatsoever to threaten in-kind retaliation.
Yet Mr David worries that Wall Street's initial strength may prove misleadingly optimistic, as it does not reflect new rules on higher capital requirements or the reforms introduced by Dodd-Frank, which threaten to curb risk-taking.
The bad news is that a one-in-five chance of recession reflects the fact that so many significant risks threaten the still-fragile recovery.
Do these disparities, and the trouble in Greece, threaten the break-up of the euro, as some believe?
This will both make the companies richer, by making their catalogues more valuable, and threaten their long-term survival.
However the government has been moving toward increased regulations in medicine lately, and this could threaten the prescriber-patient relationship.
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If this strategy works, it will threaten those full-service brokerages that have so far largely left Internet broking alone.
They struggled to threaten the try-line and instead looked to their forwards to bulldoze their way through the middle.
The recent developments threaten the power-sharing agreement, which was to end months of turmoil and violence that followed the country's March presidential elections.
Because Werness' annuity isn't reinsured by an insurance company, serious trouble for New Life could threaten his ten-year payout (see box, p. 184).
Allowing viewers the choice to ignore commercials could possibly threaten the free-programming model that has dominated television for so many decades, and even cut into broadcasters' revenue streams.
The sanctions for misbehaviour were not credible: to threaten a deficit-ridden country with huge fines is like chastising a man hanging on to a cliff by treading on his fingers.
In one of the movie's better running gags, she proves it again and again when she delivers a vicious sucker punch to the throat of anyone foolish enough to threaten her well-being.
It could give Silicon Valley a chance to address the problems that threaten its long-term ability to remain the world capital of high-tech: an overburdened infrastructure, skyrocketing house prices and increasing social inequality.
Not only will this content be more expensive, but it will further threaten the pay-TV providers as it will give their subscribers an incentive to drop cable subscriptions, for example, and subscribe to Netflix.
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While the Democrats will have full control of the economic portfolios, their efforts at decisive action could be hampered by pressure from their partners, who may threaten a pull-out if the pace of reform is too fast.
The Gunners continued to threaten and centre-half Philippe Senderos had a 35-yard shot that flew just over the bar while Walcott failed to hit the target from six yards out as he connected with an Adebayor centre.
That is also why thoughts of an uprooted road in 20th century Bethlehem are worth holding on to as the pomp and ceremony of millenium celebrations - the anniversary of Jesus's birth - threaten to make us forget.
It led to those eight teams - under the umbrella of Fota - to threaten to quit Formula 1 and establish a rival series next season - a move that Mosley claims "is an attack on the FIA's right to regulate its Formula One world championship".
As for the next financial crisis, which will most threaten the highly-leveraged, nothing in the Dodd Frank act, or any specific regulation, precludes the Fed from once again deliberately inverting the Treasury yield curve and triggering the next recession and credit crunch, as it has done so frequently in the past.
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Escalating health-care costs threaten to stifle the growth of American entrepreneurship--a principal driver of economic growth and improvements in living standards.
And Diaspora, the open-source, nonprofit that was supposed to threaten Facebook's laissez-faire attitude toward privacy, has yet to crack half a million users.
And when tough times inevitably come -- when war and economic hardship threaten to blow us off course -- we do what Americans have always done.
He said scientists have identified 95% of asteroids more than a half-mile in diameter -- the kind that threaten human existence if they strike Earth, like the six-mile-wide one believed to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago -- and found none on a collision course with the planet.
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