However in urban centres like New York, historic street art continues to be threatened by gentrification.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reelection chances may be threatened by more scandal.
Italy, for example, will be threatened by Libyan missiles much sooner than Britain or Norway.
But correspondents say the summit could be threatened by clashes between the US and the region's left-wing leaders.
Kim Jong Un himself may be threatened by the mere prospect of a summit with South Korea's Iron Lady.
Russia be threatened by increase in emigration at some point in the future, perhaps even in the very near future?
The future of Bristol Airport could be threatened by a buyout of Cardiff Airport, a South West MEP has warned.
These have been seriously disrupted, and continue to be threatened by sabotage.
Contact travel agents and providers as soon as your plans appear to be threatened by a major storm, advises Jeanenne Diefendorf, a spokeswoman for Orbitz.
But just almost as soon as things get going, the process is going to be threatened by the September 26th expiration of the moratorium on the Israeli settlement construction.
On Monday, Commons Speaker John Bercow warned the security of the ballot could be threatened by Friday counting and demanded an end to the "passive acceptance" of the practice.
The people of Newry realise that the local economy is still far from perfect, and that their new-found prosperity could be threatened by any setbacks to the peace process.
Llyr Huws Griffiths, Plaid Cymru AM for North Wales, raised concerns that "far more families will be threatened by homelessness due to the changes to benefits" implemented by the UK government.
The Afghan president sought to assure Americans that Afghanistan would soon be able to provide for its own security and would never again be threatened by "terrorists from across our borders".
"I think it has finally sunk in that Pakistan's own security could be threatened by greater links between Afghan and Pakistani Taliban once most of our troops leave, " said one US official.
"Nearly 60% of the island's more than 22m people could be threatened by a significant worsening of hunger in a country that already had extremely high rates of food insecurity and malnutrition, " it added.
An urgent public signal should be sent concerning American support for the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, the Baltic states and other reformist ex-Soviet republics who might be threatened by a Kremlin that reverts to form.
As women continue to make gains in the workplace, wouldn't it be easier if men just learned not to be threatened by women with money in the first place--and redefined the "trophy" part of trophy wife?
In meetings over the past several months with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Secretary of State Colin Powell has tried to allay Russian concerns that its tight commercial relationship in Iraq would be threatened by a new sanctions.
Though the elephants have been able to beat the heat and drought of their environment, researchers warn they might be threatened by violence in their politically unstable home, which has been wracked by an uprising of Islamist militants.
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In telecoms, for instance, private-equity firms are mostly trying to buy established firms often former national monopolists that, while they might be threatened by internet telephony, have strong cash flow, physical assets and plenty of scope to improve the quality of management.
This columnist once heard Mr Welch tell a chief executives' boot-camp that the key was to have the compensation committee chaired by someone older and richer than you, who would not be threatened by the idea of your getting rich too.
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Facebook is blocked in China, along with Twitter, YouTube and other foreign social media, a reflection of the leadership's fear that its power could be threatened by allowing citizens to organize outside of Communist Party control and enjoy unfettered access to information.
They claim this principle of "equal votes" would be threatened by a move to AV - where second preference votes given to the candidate with the least support are re-distributed after the initial ballot if no-one gains over 50% of first preference votes.
We've talked about it a lot over the last few weeks, but he really does like people who have different points of view and is confident enough in his own leadership abilities that he wouldn't be threatened by having somebody of her stature on his cabinet.
Mr. President, I support your call to all nations to struggle for a nuclear-free world and we fully support the nuclear strategy of the United States, and we say that all the countries that support the Non-Proliferation Treaty will get the support of nuclear powers and will never be threatened by any nuclear state.
The third step was to build an even larger more magnificently wonder of technology in Puerto Rico, where the ships dock full of used electronic goods to be recycled rather than dumped in the sea, or shipped to India to be stripped by young workers whose health could be threatened by processing the recycling by hand.
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It would have seemed preposterous that, for example, the Great Barrier Reef the biggest structure ever made by life on Earth could be mortally threatened by any present or foreseeable environmental change.
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Middle and upper income Americans will no longer be seriously threatened by the AMT as periodic AMT patches will no longer be necessary.
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