Again, the tax was presented as posing an existential threat to the Australian way.
Of course, we hardly need to look for new cases of corporate existential threat.
For a country as small as Israel, even a small-scale nuclear attack could be an existential threat.
Which is understandable, because historically floods have not posed an existential threat to places like New York City.
But even weak, divided and incompetent governments can, when faced with an existential threat, undertake a major military action.
The pain would be more acceptable if the creditors acted as if they believed they faced an existential threat.
No matter how persuasive the arguments, Lord Grantham rejects them as being an existential threat to his way of life.
More than ever before, the Pakistani public, politicians and the military agree on the existential threat posed by the Pakistani Taliban.
Such a line of thinking is not only wrong-headed but leaves us perilously and continuously exposed to a deep existential threat.
While the product is unlikely to represent an existential threat to Netflix, it is likely to bring incremental dollars to Redbox.
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If terrorism has been seen by some Americans as an existential threat, climate change has arguably acquired the same status in Europe.
With communities believing -- not without cause -- that they face an existential threat, the need for a negotiated settlement is more urgent than ever.
In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat.
Another day, another existential threat to the city of Los Angeles.
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.
Politics notwithstanding, the commitment of governments to defend their banking systems removes the existential threat to the biggest institutions (or, more precisely, transfers it to sovereign borrowers).
That writer seems oblivious to the existential threat that aggressive inflation of the supply of Federal Reserve notes poses to their viability as a medium of exchange.
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Mr Netanyahu, more than any other Israeli politician, has been ominously outspoken since the mid-1990s on the existential threat to Israel, as he sees it, of Iran's attaining nuclear weapons.
"We once thought of Aids as an existential threat, now we live with it, " Major General Jonathan Shaw, commander of UK Cyber Policy at the Ministry of Defence told the audience.
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?
Reflecting on recent years, Sir Michael described the events leading to the publication of Lord Hutton's report examining the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly as the "greatest existential threat the BBC has faced in recent times".
If Windows has benefited all these years from ecosystem inertia, and Microsoft has only really had to compete with the previous version of Windows for more than two decades, why is there suddenly some sort of existential threat to the continued dominance of Windows?
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.
But does that constitute an immediate threat of existential proportions?
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