But it is Macedonia's own tensions that make instability across the border so threatening.
Why was an effort to prevent bribery and corruption abroad so threatening to these corporations that they had to challenge the basic premise of public disclosures?
And though fewer firms are defaulting than were doing so or threatening to do so a few months ago, the ratio of upgrades to downgrades by Moody's, a credit-rating agency, continues to decline.
East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) thanked the bus driver but said the case was not life-threatening so other emergency calls had taken priority.
Health Which? said some ambulance trusts were re-classifying certain conditions as non-life threatening so that they did not have to meet the eight minute target.
Some are so intimidated by the threatening notice they write a check without trying to respond further.
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And in doing so, she is threatening her human capital.
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We must work together to raise awareness, increase access to services, improve preventive care, and end the silence surrounding this life-threatening illness so at-risk and infected individuals can receive the assistance they need.
So where circumstances are life-threatening and where circumstances make it appropriate to use plastic baton rounds we will do so but only in such circumstances.
Just told me that somebody called her and he'd been threatening her, so I said well I'll be over there.
Mitsubishi Motors, along with most other big firms that have recently announced a restructuring, did so only because bankruptcy was threatening.
We achieved for the second year running the eight-minute target for life-threatening emergencies, so that's a major improvement in the past 18 months.
We change how we talk so as not to sound threatening.
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By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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It would reduce the officer fear of the life-threatening incidents that they so frequently respond to because there'd be a lot more of them.
It does, of course, depend how strong the belief is, but if that is what the patient demands - even in life threatening circumstances - then so be it.
Such a turnaround is dramatic: not so long ago Turkey's generals were threatening to invade the Kurdish enclave and Mr Barzani was vowing to fight back.
So after years when no team came close to threatening their record, the Lakers recognize this could be the end of their time at the top.
Five years ago, he had been on a team overhauling Ahmedabad in India, where city services were so poor members of the peaceful Jain community were threatening violence.
Armed with a black bag and blackberry, DeJonge visits mostly the elderly who either can't get to a hospital or are so ill that moving them would prove life-threatening.
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Every day, I have to introduce myself to new clients, judges and other attorneys and actually think of how I can say my own name so that it might sound less foreign, less threatening.
One of the considerations, observes Golden, is that it takes time to find and train new employees, so many employers may be making a mistake by threatening and pressuring workers just after a national disaster.
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From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, Transformers: Dark of the Moon explodes with high-octane action when a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day threatening to bring a war to Earth so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save us.
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Katrina didn't seem threatening when it came through the Gulf, so they waited until the last minute to leave, grabbing what belongings they could on their way out the door.
In order to get the up or down vote on Owen that Republicans want, Majority Leader Frist is threatening to change the rules of the Senate so that Democrats can't require 60 votes to move on the nomination and Republicans would need just a simple majority.
Criminal charges would be life-threatening, which is probably why Goldman shares dropped so sharply on the news last week.
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The dazzling party scene, meanwhile, has brought a new kind of anything-goes culture to Singapore that is threatening the sense of order that helped make it so alluring in the first place.
So if we find a large asteroid heading towards the Earth, threatening to wipe out civilization, we need a better plan than that.
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Symptoms of so-called acute altitude sickness, which are not life-threatening, include: mild headache, shortness of breath during ordinary activities, loss of appetite, insomnia and malaise.
An operation to remove the prostate can have serious side-effects, such as loss of control of urinary function, so doctors are unwilling to operate unless the cancer appears life-threatening.
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