In Anchorage, Alaska, a group was planning to converge on city hall to hold a carol-singing protest in defence of Christmas customs they believe to be under threat, such as the habit of wishing someone "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".
Located at the thin end of the Thames tidal estuary, it is considered to be one of the cities most under threat from rising sea levels with around 150 square kilometers located below high tide level -- home to more than one million Londoners.
"It would be an act of betrayal to the species and habitats now under threat for this government to drop the whole bill because of the impractical and ill-thought-out access provisions they have added to it, " said Tory environment spokesman Damian Green.
Now many Muslims and Jews are concerned their fundamental traditions are under threat and that circumcision may be the next element of religious freedom to be withdrawn.
First, when someone will only do something under the threat of aggression, we can be reasonably certain that he or she would have preferred to do something else.
Where girls and women live under the daily threat of violence, there can be no real collaboration.
Refugee resettlement is granted by the U.S. Embassy in the country of origin to those who are deemed to be under threat in their home country.
Giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers acknowledged there may not be a lot of direct evidence that local political donors would be under threat if their names are published.
In her new role she will continue to be a stoic defender of funding for research which in many countries is under threat because of the economic climate.
It also revealed police stations across London would also be under threat, with five already approved for sale, under moves to dispose of a third of its estate.
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That record will not be broken this year, but the more recent cold March of 1987 looks under threat - its mean temperature was 3.3C.
As for Mechai, the ousted Krung Thai chairman still heads state-owned Telephone Organization of Thailand, although some wonder whether his position might be under threat.
Elsewhere, traditional ways of life, still beautifully and scrupulously pursued, seemed to be under threat.
There is a real risk these areas of beauty could soon be a thing of the past and it is not just Lancashire's wildlife under threat.
Gaffney, Jr. observed in a column distributed by National Review Online on Monday, the urgency with which such deployments must be undertaken has grown as awareness spreads of a heretofore under-appreciated danger: the threat of short-range missiles launched from ships off the U.S. coasts.
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Professor JAY BARTH (Hendrix College): That's what was kind of driving the desperation that I think everybody was feeling to get something done, to allow Medicaid checks to continue to go out, to allow education to continue to be funded, all of those kind of basic state services which were really coming under threat.
Speculation also suggested a move to Juventus could be on the cards, particularly with his place in the team under threat following the January arrival of Javier Mascherano.
But in the naysayers' view, it is precisely these idyllic scenes that are under threat from machines that may cover an area the size of Manhattan and be taller (at 134 metres) than the Statue of Liberty.
They may even be aware that the rite of burning an effigy on November 5th (a tradition admittedly under threat from political correctness and the health-and-safety police) celebrates the foiling of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
With their organizations under threat of higher taxation as well as public opprobrium, other shareholders ought to be more exercised over the remuneration issue.
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