11.   Its very success, however, threatens its existence.

12.   Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG said the discovery of accounting irregularities hiding losses and potential losses at a plant unit threaten the existence of the entire group.

13.   Most Serbs in Kosovo are hard-line nationalists, seeing their very existence threatened by the Kosovo independence movement led by the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army.

14.   Now deforestation is destroying the climate here, perpetuating drought and threatening the existence of this indigenous group.

15.   Opponents of decentralization have warned that it threatens the existence of the United Kingdom itself.

16.   The Dalles may help light thousands of homes, but to the salmon, it is just one more human obstacle that threatens their existence.

17.   The Internet is becoming a more popular sales vehicle, which threatens the existence of traditional record stores.

18.   The Kremlin threatened the existence of so many countries that it was always possible to maintain a modicum of allied cohesion to isolate it economically and militarily.

19.   They claimed the program opens the door to sales-tax fraud and exposes consumers to privacy violations, and also threatens the existence of their businesses.

20.   This will allow the big to get bigger and threaten the existence of local and independent broadcasting companies.