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Even when it threatens to disintegrate into nightmare at times of winter floods, Carnival shenanigans, or summer hordes, visitors can take refuge in a café once frequented by Casanova or in a quiet back alleyway away from the congestion, and continue their dream uninterrupted.
If your next dinner party threatens to turn dull, you might try antagonizing sophisticates with a Revisionist Schumacher Hypothesis.
The Mars Polar Lander disaster threatens to cripple NASA's space exploration program, which has struggled since the "national psychic letdown that followed the moon landings."
See Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc. v. Ragland , 481 U.S. 221, 237 (1987) (Scalia, J., dissenting); see also Leathers v. Medlock , 499 U.S. 439, 447 (1991) ("[D]ifferential taxation of First Amendment speakers is constitutionally suspect when it threatens to suppress the expression of particular ideas or viewpoints").
Now the sea threatens to undermine the rock on which it stands, and concrete breakwaters have been positioned to hold back the waves.