Another is the fact that there are an increasingly hostile set of attackers out there.
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The American public, already skeptical of free trade, is becoming increasingly hostile to it.
Certainly energy companies now face a potentially implacable foe and a re-energized, increasingly hostile bureaucratic apparat.
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But the political climate has become increasingly hostile to religious liberties and all threats must be watched more carefully.
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But, thanks to managed care and ever-growing government intrusion, we are creating an environment increasingly hostile to initially expensive innovations.
In addition, managed care's emphasis on curbing immediate costs is creating an environment increasingly hostile to innovations, which, initially, are expensive.
Not only has Obama adopted the Palestinians' increasingly hostile policies towards Israel.
Assuming the premiership after Mr Blair's decade in office, he also inherited an electorate that had grown bored and increasingly hostile to Labour.
China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Myanmar and Venezuela are among those increasingly hostile nations who have obtained nuclear weapons or are working to get them.
Russia, like other oil-rich countries in the Middle East and Latin America, has become increasingly hostile to foreign investment in the oil sector in recent years.
The system now evolving will become increasingly hostile to innovation.
It has been a tough week so far for the major stock market averages, as ratings cuts and the increasingly hostile environment in Washington have cut several rallies short.
For if there is rescue fatigue in northern Europe, there is reform fatigue in southern Europe, with electorates increasingly hostile to austerity programmes that appear to be leading to deeper recessions.
In Israel, where Margret lives full time, she and Steven partner on projects that are intended to both alleviate poverty and build bridges between the increasingly hostile Jewish and Arab communities.
Georgia's increasingly hostile neighbor, Russia, supports these autonomous territories.
Because the US refuses to recognize radical Islam as its enemy, it fails to connect Turkey's erratic and increasingly hostile behavior to the fact that the country is ruled by an Islamist government.
The conference attended by Cabinet members, women's leaders and others occurred as Obama's re-election bid kicked into high gear, with Romney marching toward the Republican nomination and the two exchanging increasingly hostile attacks this week.
Interestingly, the promotions came amid a slight easing in what had become an increasingly hostile relationship between North and South Korea in the wake of the North's sinking of the South Korean navy vessel Cheonan in March.
Beck came to Israel to launch a global movement of activists committed to supporting Israel, not in order to "rape" it, but in order to empower it to defeat its enemies and to stand up to an increasingly hostile world.
He is one of hundreds of thousands of Arabic-speaking Turkish Alawis, most living near the Syrian border, and fears the sectarian conflict next door could open the same fault lines in Turkey especially as relations between the two former allies become increasingly hostile.
They were profoundly unhappy with Mr Netanyahu's apparent commitment to the two-state solution - although many of the prime minister's critics maintain he, too, is increasingly hostile to the notion of a Palestinian state, certainly within the so-called "Green Line" or 1948 ceasefire lines.
It seems obvious that the momentous decision of whether to terminate the F-22 at just 180 aircraft one that could prove fateful in deterring a future conflict with increasingly hostile and aggressive adversaries should be made not by a lame-duck presidency but a newly mandated one.
He said the governing African National Congress's rhetoric was increasingly becoming hostile to white South Africans.
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The formal commitments to reconciliation have been increasingly undermined by hostile propaganda from both capitals.
The downside to this is that the country is increasingly protectionist and hostile to foreign investment and business.
Islam, which has been present there for centuries, is spreading, and many Muslims are becoming increasingly vociferous and hostile to western influence.
Yet the conservative movement has increasingly become a hostile place for people who think for themselves, no matter how deeply they understand their subjects.
Czech and Polish public opinion was increasingly sceptical, or outright hostile to the bases.
As Dresdner exhausts its options for friendly, domestic deals, a hostile foreign approach looks increasingly likely.
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