Reaching consensus between the various members was easier under Leonid Brezhnev's rule than under Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rule was marked by radical reform which threatened the interest of several institutional players within the system.

The spill threatened industrial facilities in ' Al Jubayl because of the seawater cooling system for primary industries and threatened the supply of potable water produced by seawater-fed desalination plants.

The railroad brotherhoods threatened in summer 1916 to shut down the national transportation system.

By 1847 he decided the Union was threatened by a totally corrupt party system.

The Globe and Mail wrote: "... any group that does not come under the control of the Party is a threat " Craig S. Smith of The Wall Street Journal suggests that the government which has by definition no view of spirituality, lacks moral credibility with which to fight an expressly spiritual foe ; the party feels increasingly threatened by any belief system that challenges its ideology and has an ability to organize itself.

Not only the workmen and the large class of proletarians attracted to Paris by the system, but rentiers and government officials, whose incomes were paid in assignats on a scale arbitrarily fixed by the government, saw themselves threatened with starvation.

The river system in Arizona, including in Tanque Verde, is threatened by the increased pumping and diversion of water from the rivers and streams for agriculture, industrial, and domestic use.

California DFG fears, perhaps unfairly, that pike may escape the lake and enter the Sacramento River system, posing a potential threat to native anadromous fish species that are already threatened, such as steelhead and salmon.

The Ottomans were traditional allies of the French and were a major trading partner, but the weakening of Ottoman power and the growth of Russia threatened the old system.

* NTP, Inc., an American patent holding firm that threatened to shut down the Blackberry system for patent infringement

After learning about the deal, Digital Research founder Gary Kildall threatened to sue IBM for infringing DRI's intellectual property, and IBM agreed to offer CP / M-86 as an alternative operating system on the PC to settle the claim.

In 2005 environmentalists complained that housing developments on London's waterways threatened the vitality of the canal system.

Various ideas regarding the origins of lex talionis exist, but a common one is that it developed as early civilizations grew and a less well-established system for retribution of wrongs, feuds and vendettas, threatened the social fabric.

In 1786-87 Shays ' Rebellion, an uprising of farmers in western Massachusetts against the state court system, threatened the stability of state government.

This generated a crisis of confidence in the British financial system which threatened the Pound's position on the Gold Standard.

The Hazard Ranking System ( HRS ) is a scoring system used to evaluate potential relative risks to public health and the environment from releases or threatened releases of hazardous wastes at uncontrolled waste sites.

They were reasonably prosperous, but eventually returned to England in 1826, one factor in their decision being a threatened lawsuit from neighbouring farmers, who claimed that Bentham's irrigation system was diverting the local water supply.

Captives world wide are threatened by Agamid adenovirus, a virus that compromises the immune system of the dragon, and leads to death from other diseases.

Clothing was already is short supply due to cloth rationing, and the immediate clothing needs of millions of returning veterans threatened to crash an already overtaxed system.

The mission conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, but suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U. S. spacecraft which threatened the lives of the astronauts and required immediate abort of the mission.

At one point President Karzai threatened that he would not run for the office in 2004 if a parliamentary system or semi-presidential system was created.

Yet they felt threatened by the rise of machine politics, one aspect of which was the spoils system, and by the rising power of immigrants in American society.

Alfred's burh system posed such a formidable challenge against Viking attack that when the Vikings returned in 892 and successfully stormed a half-made, poorly garrisoned fortress up the Lympne estuary in Kent, the Anglo-Saxons were able to limit their penetration to the outer frontiers of Wessex and Mercia.

Each element of the system was meant to remedy defects in the West Saxon military establishment exposed by the Viking invasions.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

European countries with a weak system of government would be unable to organize a suitable response would naturally suffer the most to Viking raiders.

The Navy proposed designing a rocket system based on the Viking and Aerobee rocket systems.

NRL was also responsible for developing the Vanguard rocket launch vehicles through a contract to the Martin Company ( which had built the Viking rockets ), developing and installing the satellite tracking system, and designing, constructing, and testing the satellites.

Each element of the system was meant to remedy defects in the West Saxon military establishment exposed by the Viking invasions.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

Each element of the system was meant to remedy defects in the West Saxon military establishment exposed by the Viking invasions.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

Utopia Planitia ( Latin: " Nowhere Plain ") is the largest recognized impact basin on Mars and in the solar system with an estimated diameter of 3300 km, and is the Martian region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on September 3, 1976.

ABMA provided valuable support on Viking and Vanguard, both with their first-hand knowledge of the V-2, as well as developing its guidance system.

Viking society was to a certain extent a stratified caste system.

It is argued that the completion of this system, of which Cricklade – situated only a little way down Ermin Street from Cirencester, the Viking base for a year – was a key element, precipitated the retreat of the Vikings from Mercia and London to East Anglia, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in late 879.

Viking 3, 9 February 1950, suffered from instability in a redesigned guidance system, and had to be cut off by ground command when it threatened to fly outside the range.

The rest of the group are the deposits of the massive northward prograding Brent delta system, which occupied the entire southern part of the Viking graben area.

Components of the system were developed separately on several types of aircraft, including the Lancaster, Viking, Devon and the Albemarle.

The waves in Mullaghmore were generated by a complex weather system nicknamed the " Viking storm " leading to the best big wave conditions in the area for the month of March for 15 years.

The system is a continuation of Jan Petersen's typology of the Viking sword, introduced in De Norske Vikingsverd (" The Norwegian Viking Swords ", 1919 ), modified in 1927 by R. E. M. Wheeler into a typology of nine types labelled I to IX.