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In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and more global warming pollution which threatens the entire planet.

Dan Becker

We see this as something that threatens the image ... of the Olympics. I think that is the way most sponsors feel.

Norman Black

There is nothing humorous about steroid abuse. I would think that the California Milk Processor Board and their advertising agency would know better regarding an issue that threatens America's youth.

Tim Brosnan

All further relations with Saudi Arabia must be entirely contingent on the kingdom's progress cracking down, reigning in and snuffing out its terrorist problem. Deeds -- not words -- must be the benchmark of Saudi progress in solving the terrorist problem that threatens its society as much as it threatens our own.

Frank Lautenberg

Deteriorates markedly further from here, and threatens the strong business investment outlook.

Anthony Thompson

A hidden energy crisis threatens our world. Society throws people into chronic physical, emotional, and spiritual depletion. Multi-tasking lets us manage a deluge of very real duties, but it also jeopardizes the now.

Judith Orloff

Our biggest fear is that the other issue -- the undocumented workers -- bogs down and threatens the entire bill.

Ralph Hellman

We must discard it while we are still capable of controlling it, not turn its descent into a roulette that threatens the entire global community.

Yuri Semyonov

The IFC threatens to turn Ground Zero into a place of endless controversy, not a place of honor.

Anthony Gardner

Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it.

Stephen Biddle

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Felix Klein

Eminent domain has been used historically very judiciously and mostly appropriately in North Carolina and other states. Our opposition is strictly based on our concern about the potential change in direction with eminent domain that the Supreme Court had opened that threatens private ownership of property.

Ken Chalk

While thousands are dying in Iraq, here at home our government is waging a new war, a 'war on dissent' that threatens to dismantle the constitution and severely challenge our country's basic democratic principles of free speech and peaceful assembly.

Michael Mcconnell

The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.

Chris Low

He has been moved to the prison hospital ... suffering from a high level of acetone in his blood and urine, which eventually leads to a coma and threatens his life.

Gameela Ismail

Our petition to list the polar bear as a threatened species is based on the overwhelming evidence that global warming threatens the bear with extinction.

Andrew Wetzler

There are no environmental myths to rebut in this debate, ... The overwhelming opposition to this project is coming from informed citizens and public officials who, with eyes wide open, understand that LNG in Fall River threatens the Taunton River, Mount Hope Bay and Narragansett Bay.

Jane Austin

We are outraged by terrorism, which threatens and devastates human lives and institutions in such a limitless fashion.

Ferenc Madl

Their involvement in (the election) campaign threatens free and fair elections as it borders on voter intimidation.

Jale Baba

We will distribute it broadly in outdoor-related stores. Here in the Rocky Mountains, that could mean in convenience stores. Whirling disease affects anyone who's in the water-it threatens their recreation.

John Duncan

Intimidation by extreme rhetoric and the threat of physical violence threatens judges as well as the Constitution itself.

Louis Butler

This ruling, if it stands, threatens to undermine and erode our power as states to hold accountable out-of-state polluters who foul our air, ... Carbon dioxide pollution endangers public health and the environment, just as other harmful emissions. These companies must be held accountable and forced to clean up.

Richard Blumenthal

Alcohol and drug abuse by miners threatens the safety of their colleagues, and that cannot be tolerated.

David G. Dye

I will only make the call if the storm becomes a Category 3 and threatens this area.

Oscar Ortiz

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering change that threatens to engulf him.

Owen Arthur

He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent.

Legal Maxim

There are signs that the long-term drivers of prosperity are weakening. The loss of our competitive edge is a continuing corrosive process, which threatens our economic well-being in the long term.

Alan Duncan

We will continue to fight the scourge of terrorism against humanity and reject the culture of extremism and violence in any form or shape, from whatever source or place, regardless of justifications or motives, being fully aware of their dangers as a plague that threatens the peace and stability of the whole world.

Hosni Mubarak

Breast cancer is the disease that, for a long time, women feared the most. In this country, we're so focused on physical looks. We tie the issue of femininity to physical appearance, and people think primarily of breast cancer that threatens your breasts -- though those who have it realize, more significantly, that it threatens your life.

Fran Visco

This is the gangland mob that threatens to rule us ... this is the mob that will savage our constitution and the very fabric of our society unless we destroy it now before it destroys us.

Sergio Apostol

With smart policies, climate protection could become an economic engine, unleashing entrepreneurial creativity on a problem that otherwise threatens huge economic and environmental costs.

Jennifer Morgan

This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordinary harm to people.

Cecilia Munoz

We are facing an epidemic of obesity that threatens the public health of California and the rest of the nation. We must improve our children's nutrition and level of physical activity if we are going to reverse this trend.

Sandra Shewry

I think something has to be done about this really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model.

George Reyes

Our policy is to immediately notify the authorities if we come into contact with anyone we know has committed a serious crime or threatens to harm anyone, including themselves. Until this young man was arrested and identified, we did not know who he really was or whether he had committed any crime.

Leonard Downie

Trying to illegally enter the United States from the maritime domain is inherently dangerous and threatens the lives of all involved.

Chris O'neil

It?s the first step onto a slippery slope that will dismantle many of the freedoms that Americans have come to know. AOL?s pay-to-send scheme threatens the free and open Internet as we know it.

Timothy Karr

Certification has now become a risk and threatens our business plan.

Jack Pelton

The Latin American populists like Chavez have a very limited capacity to do anything that threatens substantial harm to our interests, so it's key in those cases not to overreact.

Andrew Bacevich

I'm not sure I'll ever hit that level and to the level of official stature that Bob Woodward had for his Nixon coverage, simply because I'm an outsider, ... But to the degree that the story now threatens a president, I do think it's on the same level as what Woodward and Bernstein did with their coverage and applying the pressure.

Matt Drudge

The Likud faction was established before Sharon, and will continue to exist after him, ... It is a faction that chooses its leader, not a leader that chooses a faction. How is it possible to submit to a man who made a joke of the institution of this faction and its decisions, who now threatens that he will not stay in the faction if he loses in a democratic vote.

Uzi Landau

SCE has borrowed billions of dollars, which threatens the company's solvency, through eight and a half months of inaction and delay by the CPUC, in order to continue to serve its customers, ... There was no reason for the CPUC to take this action, except for reasons of publicity. This decision undermines confidence in the fairness of the decision-making process at the CPUC.

John Bryson

If a citizen threatens an officer or another citizen with death or imminent bodily harm, an officer has to react. I think our (officer-involved shooting) level is not out of line.

Carla Johnson

The IFC threatens to turn ground zero into a place of endless controversy rather than a place of honour.

Anthony Gardner

This preliminary injunction threatens every American technology company's right to innovate and define what goes into its products. The ruling puts the government into the middle of complex product design issues in an industry that, for more than 20 years, has experienced incredible growth, innovation and competition - without government intervention.

William Neukom

The Internet threatens to give every child with access to an interactive computer a free pass into the equivalent of every adult bookstore and video outlet in the country.

Seth Waxman

It does put a lot of pressure on the individual employees. It threatens them with arrest if they don't follow the law, and being fired. We think that Greyhound is going overboard.

John Trasviña

The evil hand of terrorism, which threatens the very fabric of civilized society, has taken away yet another champion of peace.

Mahinda Rajapakse

The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference-- that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars.

Byron Paulson

Our homes are our sanctuaries. It's where we take our safety and security when something threatens us like that.

Tim Donohoe

By opposing Measure A, we are maintaining the integrity of the Napa Valley Ag Preserve. Any measure that threatens this should be opposed by the NVV.

Hugh Davies

A master sergeant in the Army is in danger of losing his lavish lifestyle when a Pentagon official threatens to close Fort Baxter.

Phil Hartman

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Jan Peter Balkenende

I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him.

Roger Bannister

China now threatens not just Taiwan but every corner of the Pacific Ocean with its aggressive expansion of military power.

Annette Lu

TB-HIV co-infection threatens to reverse the steady progress toward achieving this goal.

Dr Shigeru Omi

Any time a country threatens to cut off oil supplies, the people in New York say, 'Golly, that'll happen,' and the price of oil goes up. They have a little leverage with their oil production. But if you cut off oil exports, you cut off your foreign exchange earnings.

Robert Ebel

In Japan, the Bank of Japan is telling markets absolutely everything, leading short-term bond yields to rise to a level that threatens prospects for an accelerated end to deflation.

Tony Hughes

By consensus decision, all governments have re-affirmed the moratorium on a genetic engineering technology that threatens the lives and livelihoods of 1.4 billion people who depend on farmer-saved seed.

Pat Mooney

It's a stupid idea to believe that somebody can destroy Israel now. The moment Israel complies and accepts for us to live in a state beside Israel, I assure you we, the independent Palestinians, will fight anybody who threatens that agreement.

Nashat Aqtash

The events of the past month help make clear that the United States must become more energy independent, but we must not let today's crisis drive us toward oil or gas development that threatens the North Carolina's coast.

Carolyn Mccormick

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

John Lancaster Spalding

When defense lawyers are murdered, the rule of law is doubly at stake. Human rights law requires that all murders be investigated in a credible manner. Moreover, defense attorneys are critical to a fair trial, and their systematic assassination threatens the entire process.

Philip Alston

A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.

Benedict Xvi

Who tries to keep the Civil War at bay and his family safe as the battle spreads and threatens their very existence.

Charlie Anderson

The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world energy supply, but also the climate.

Lester Brown

There's a reason why it's illegal for public employees to strike in New York. It doesn't just negatively impact our economy. It threatens the health and safety of every single New Yorker.

George Pataki

Judge Roberts as chief justice threatens decades of a federal court system tipped against equality.

Joe Solmonese

When police officers lie, the potential danger extends far beyond an individual case. It goes to the heart of the justice system and threatens the entire relationship between the city and community.

Eugene O'donnell

Most people, most of the time, get their music free. And that's not a marketplace. In fact, it directly threatens the concept of the music marketplace.

Eric Garland