Financial companies have complained that such laws threaten to make them uncompetitive against foreign rivals.

Some operators said the law is threatening small businesses.

Such a law would upset the system of checks and balances and threaten all minority groups.

Yet the two-child law is now unseating, or threatening to, some of those who have gained access to power for the first time.

The columns represented the start of sanctuary and many fugitives made their way there when the law threatened.

Such laws, he said, are "threatening the future of peoples."

But these restrictive laws have threatened the operations of ham radio operators.

If Washington isn't satisfied with the results, the law threatens punitive tariffs on imports from the targeted countries.

The law also threatened the corporate charter of any industry that did not comply.

If the law threatened press freedom, it was for Parliament, not the courts, to change it.