Existential threats have a funny way of making people very nervous, and the long arm of the law is usually the first place to turn to when that happens.
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Shaft was an existential adventurer with a relentless libido.
Existential threats have a way of focusing the mind.
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Would we allow the Israelis - who are under no illusion that their country faces an existential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran - to act alone against a danger we may share?
Optimists say that has turned the eurozone crisis from an existential crisis into a more standard financial and economic crisis, not so very different from the crisis that the UK and the US are still labouring to put behind them.
So, enter the Cambridge Project for Existential Risk, a joint initiative between a philosopher, a scientist and a software entrepreneur, wants to create a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks around the spread of robotic technology.
Many people see geoengineering as a false solution to an existential crisis akin to encouraging a heart-attack patient to avoid exercise and continue to gobble fatty food while simply doubling his dose of Lipitor.
These are existential decisions made by a prisoner of the moment whose longtime M.
But even weak, divided and incompetent governments can, when faced with an existential threat, undertake a major military action.
Such a line of thinking is not only wrong-headed but leaves us perilously and continuously exposed to a deep existential threat.
It has enemies, but none that pose a potential existential threat.
And what many will fear, with some justification, is that Germany has set those limits in a way that sustains a serious existential threat to the eurozone.
Then there are more existential threats, like a digital generation that favors 99-cent iPad apps over traditional toys, a shrinking number of toy stores and the looming concern that DIY 3-D printing will render premade plastic toys obsolete.
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Which leaves us with that existential question: what is a page?
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But when he looked at Poland some years after its freedom was won, he wondered if many of his kinsman had not chosen a kind of existential enslavement to Western materialism.
The first is that although the West is safe in the sense that the existential threat of invasion by a malevolent foreign power or a first strike by a nuclear-armed aggressor is now vanishingly small, the rise of jihadist terrorism has left people feeling vulnerable.
Which brings us to the interesting, almost existential, question of when is a page a page?
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For all its success, Facebook now faces a bit of an existential crisis: What to do about death?
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But there is a deeper, almost existential problem looming for the Lib Dems.
For Labour, which would struggle to win an election without its Scottish MPs, it is a matter of almost existential import.
With communities believing -- not without cause -- that they face an existential threat, the need for a negotiated settlement is more urgent than ever.
The club is going through a bit of an existential crisis the last several years with the departure of Cesc Fabregas and potential departures of Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott being interpreted as a failure of the Wenger youth model.
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Man is an existential sad sack who instinctively sets up a game of hide-and-seek with the audience.
It may be one of the existential questions of this age: how can a hashtag have a trademark?
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In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat.
Presumably, that would be because the government of Israel has drawn them so as to define existential threats to the state, not simply as a matter of rhetorical posturing intended mostly for domestic political consumption.
But a city like New Orleans, with its rebuilding challenges, its violence, its rich culture, the odd mix of civic virtue and corruption, and its long-term existential risks from hurricanes and rising seas, deserves a first-class newsgathering operation.
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But the fact is, as my colleagues know, Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus are meeting every day with Iraq's democratically-elected leaders to help them reach compromise and reconciliation on a range of complex, painful, and existential issues.
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