In addition, due to the escalating violence of Mexico's drug war, the Mexican drug cartels are considered the " greatest organized crime threat to the United States " according to a report issued by the United States Department of Justice.

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear force was often used as such an escalating measure.

As a result of the escalating attacks, Soviet commanders now view the Wolverines as a serious threat.

A U. S. investigation found that U. S. military personnel had acted appropriately, and had followed the proper rules of engagement in responding to hostile fire and incrementally escalating force until the threat was eliminated.

Third, diplomatic misunderstandings and / or opposing political ideologies may lead to escalating mutual perceptions of threat, and a subsequent arms race which elevates the risk of actual war — a scenario illustrated in the movies WarGames and Dr. Strangelove.

In spring 2000, rebel activity in Sierra Leone was escalating significantly with the rebel forces of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) presenting a credible threat to the capital, Freetown.

The conflict between the two sides leads to an escalating arms race, each competing to make bigger and better weapons to outdo the other, which results in the threat of mutual assured destruction.

The complexity of the thief progressed with the development of the retail industry ; escalating both the threat and the financial consequences.

This was particularly unnerving because much of the municipal water in Rose Park comes from scattered wells Though no contaminants were ever detected, the threat of contamination was enough cause for action.

The threat to urban populations from epidemics of waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhus lead to the development of a profession devoted to " sanitary science " that later became " municipal engineering ".

However, when the American battleships landed at Calbayog on February 9, 1900 the municipal officials of Bangahon burned their town to avoid encampment threat by American Soldiers.

Forced labor occurs when an individual is forced to work against his or her will, under threat of violence or other punishment, with restrictions on their freedom.

Victims of human trafficking and other conditions of forced labor are commonly coerced by threat of legal actions to their detriment.

The IWW was condemned by politicians and the press, who saw them as a threat to the market systems as well as an effort to monopolize labor at a time when efforts to monopolize industries were being fought as anti-market.

Among them are cases of severe beatings ; psychological torment, corporal punishment and forced intense, heavy-burden hard labor and stress positions ; solitary confinement in squalid conditions ; " heat treatment " including burning and freezing ; electric shocks delivered to sensitive parts of the body that may result in nausea, convulsions, or fainting ; " devastative " forced feeding ; sticking bamboo strips into fingernails ; deprivation of food, sleep, and use of toilet ; rape and gang rape ; asphyxiation ; and threat, extortion, and termination of employment and student status.

Solzhenitsyn argued that the Soviet government could not govern without the threat of imprisonment, and that the Soviet economy depended on the productivity of the forced labor camps, especially insofar as the development and construction of public works and infrastructure were concerned.

It provided a term of five years of prison for “ individuals considered a threat to the public order because of their ties in any way with the Bollshevik revolt .” In the case of unauthorized return from exile, there could be hard labor from 4 to 8 years.

Members emphasized instead the threat slavery would pose to free white labor and northern businessmen in the new western territories.

American industrialists recognized the threat of cheap offshore labor to American workers during the 1910s, and explicitly stated the goal of what is now called lean manufacturing as a countermeasure.

From the standpoint of labor, outsourcing may represent a new threat, contributing to worker insecurity, and reflective of the general process of globalization.

The June 1982 amnesty for political prisoners was replaced by a state of siege that limited the activities of political parties and labor unions under the threat of death by firing squad.

Although anti-trust actions were not a threat to baseball, which has long been exempt from anti-trust laws, that sport's reserve clause was struck down by a United States arbitrator as a violation of other labor laws.

The rise of the CIO in the mid-1930s represented a threat to Hague's policy of guaranteeing labor peace to the sweatshop type industries that might otherwise have fled Jersey City's high property taxes.

While the rupture of the membranes may not be followed by labor, usually delivery is indicated as infection ( chorioamnionitis ) is a serious threat to both fetus and mother.

The unity slate helped avoid the threat of disaffiliations from the labor federation.

Vargas ' elite backers in both urban and rural Brazil would begin to view labor, larger and better organized than directly after the First World War, as an ominous threat to established interests.

It has been alleged that villagers live under the constant threat of rape, beatings, arbitrary arrest or execution, conscription as slave labor for the Myanmar army, and having their food and possessions taken without compensation.

Unfree labour ( or unfree labor in American English ) is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will by the threat of destitution, detention, violence ( including death ), lawful compulsion, or other extreme hardship to themselves or to members of their families.

Knight, known as a moderate, and sympathetic to organized labor, faced a serious threat because the Republican Party was growing more conservative.

The labor radicalism represented by the Seattle General Strike fit neatly into its conception of the threat American institutions faced.

Some of them, such as Lepke Buchalter remained in the industry as labor racketeers who took over unions for the opportunities for raking off dues and extorting payoffs from employers with the threat of strikes.

The threat revealed by this pact reduced the influence of pacifists in the Federation, the socialist Party, and in the labor movement.

Worse, IH now not only faced a threat of stiff competition in each of its main corporate businesses, but also had to contend with greatly increased production costs, primarily due to labor and government-imposed environmental and safety regulations.

In arts, the liberalisation of all aspects of life starting from the Khrushchev Thaw created a possibility for the evolution of various forms of non-formal, underground and dissident art ; still repressed, but no longer under the immediate threat of Gulag labor camps.

At the war's end, following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, American authorities saw the threat of revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bomb campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

This can be seen as detrimental to wage levels in the U. S., and as a threat to the ability of labor unions to organize workplaces, with the threat always present that if workers organize they can easily be replaced by cheaper legal or illegal labor.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

However the Space Shuttle would never pose an economic threat due to its immense launch costs.

For example: a threat of violence can change the likely costs and benefits of different actions ; so can a financial penalty in a ' voluntarily agreed ' contract, or indeed a friendly offer.

* the threat to cattle and humans from bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ); possibly caused by the unnatural feeding of cattle to cattle to minimize costs

Slow selling vehicles were eliminated from the U. S. market, purchase projections for the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance have been scaled back, and 10, 000 jobs have been shed to cut costs with 3, 400 workers at its Australian plant and other loss-making operations still under threat.

Models of signals ( such as threat displays ) without any handicapping costs show that conventional signalling may be evolutionarily stable in biological communication.

However, due to rising fuel costs these services are under threat.

" Automotive industry consultant Dennis DesRosiers said that General Motors had missed the chance to slash labour costs, pointing out that bankruptcy was a looming threat, Ottawa and Queen's Park demanded cuts to the labour bill as a condition of the bailout, and that the deficit to the pension fund would prevent the CAW from striking.

In addition to the energy savings, reduction in staffing costs and the ability to locate the site further from population centers, implementing a lights-out data center reduces the threat of malicious attacks upon the infrastructure.

In Michael Spence ’ s model, black students in a bi-racial university face psychic costs, such as the stigma of " acting white " to convince the admissions committee that they will be a good student, or the threat of stereotyping.

A threat serves as a deterrent to the extent that it convinces its target not to carry out the intended action because of the costs and losses that target would incur.

Huth outlines that a threat is considered credible if the defending state possesses both the military capabilities to inflict substantial costs on an attacking state in an armed conflict, and if the attacking state believes that the defending state is resolved to use its available military forces.

Costly signals are those actions and statements that clearly increase the risk of a military conflict and also increase the costs of backing down from a deterrent threat.

Prior to the BNA Act, 1867, the British colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island discussed the possibility of a fusion to counter the threat of American annexation and to reduce the costs of governance.

Prior to the BNA Act of 1867, the British colonies of the Province of New Brunswick, Province of Nova Scotia, and Province of Prince Edward Island, discussed the possibility of a fusion to counter the threat of American annexation, and to reduce the costs of governance.

Modeling programs are being designed to simulate the threat of bullet and fragment impact in an effort to reduce testing costs.

The decrease of costs allowed a reduction of ticket prices, but the line was still under threat until in June 1969 it was decided that the line's closure would result in significant hardship, and so a grant was allocated to ensure continued services.

Hence, one way to make a fighting threat credible is for the incumbent to artificially raise the cost of exit, for example by having high sunk costs.

Unprecedented challenges included: all public transportation needed to be restarted, stoplights and street signs were destroyed, the city ’ s world famous street cars were in total disrepair, bankruptcy was a real threat, bonds were downgraded to junk status, half the city ’ s workforce was laid off, millions of tons of storm debris and construction trash had to be removed, construction costs tripled and an historic number of building permits needed to be issued.

* Nov. 30, 1961-President John F. Kennedy authorized, " Operation Mongoose ," a plan to clandestinely assassinate the leader of Cuba's revolutionary military forces and potential threat to America, Communist Dictator Fidel Castro, at all costs.

This hypothetic paternal threat could increase the maternal costs associated to selfish pregnancies, thus reduce the chance that males just waste their efforts.

But these challenges pale in comparison to the threat posed by a rogue Republic agent ... one who is determined to win Adumar's allegiance once and for all-even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives.

Generally, this exploitation of opportunity or mitigation of threat will result in one of two more outcomes: an increase in revenues or a decrease in costs ( or both ).