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This answer almost amounts to a threat.
The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind.
I interpreted his remark as a threat.
We thought his threat was only a joke.
His request was tantamount to a threat.
She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.
Yellow fever and smallpox were no longer a threat.
What kind of threat do terrorists really pose?
They're not a threat.
You're a threat to our mission.
Tom's a threat.
Tom didn't think that Mary would actually carry out her threat.
That's not a threat, that is a warning.
This is just an idle threat.
Today young people find themselves, through no fault of their own, living in a world torn by international bitterness and the threat of nuclear destruction.
He sensed that threat early in his career.
She interpreted his remarks as a threat.
There is a threat of a storm.
In Ankara, I made clear that America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
In Ankara, I made clear that the United States is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
Don't underestimate him. Believe me, he'll make good on his threat.
The threat was inexorably close.
Don't worry about Tom. He isn't a threat.
Is that a threat?
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It felt like a threat.
Now, Miss Newsome and Roger are new to the scene, sir, but they've already picked up a couple of ribbons and are considered a real threat by the other owners.
You uttered a death threat, Mr. Stoddard.
Did anyone witness her uttering this threat?
We live in an age in which the world has endured the threat of annihilation at the hands of nuclear weapons.
Right now, the only thing that matters is the immediate threat.
We have a credible threat you're being targeted.
Almost his last words were a threat to return from the dead.
It's not a threat, it's a warning. Oh.
Ward Bryant, publisher and leading crusader against the rackets receives a telephone death threat against himself and his family.
And, then, under the threat of publishing her disgrace, to force my consent to their marriage.
But none of them are any good unless the threat of death is behind them.
We're concerned with a threat to what we call our American way of life.
It was only a threat.
The A.I. running the Savior tanks seemed to detect no threat as far as those capsules are concerned, but we can deal with that by reprogramming the settings.
And so, in order to return to the limelight as combatants, you've fabricated a nonexistent threat.
That the Forced Evolution Plan might very well result in producing a human species that poses a threat to us.
But we still can't be sure that they're a threat to humanity.
If we stand idly by, it won't be long before these fugitives become a threat to humanity.
Right now, the only thing that matters is the immediate threat. Your husband. Finding out who he is and who he works for.
I might've made a gesture that she took as a threat.
Use your right as a threat.
Oh, Sir Ronald, even though I'm convinced that the threat means nothing and that a routine police guard would be quite adequate, you can depend on me.
Miss Brandon fears this drawing may be a threat.
How can I can sleep with this threat over me?
You knew from the first that note was a real threat.
I know Church well enough to know that's a threat.
We have a threat you're being targeted.
This is a threat, folks.
Considering the ever increasing ravage, caused by tramps and looters, I enact to the farm-houses and villages, to set up permanent guards, to protect their values, against the common threat.
But no one else follows them. because everything is a threat when you live in poverty. It never occurs to you that things could change. and the worst is always yet to come.
Carl isn't the real threat to me.
But it's more a hope than a threat.
If I could get the Princess to Spain, the King will protect her. Under the threat of war we'll compel the Council to reject Lavalle and recognise my son.
A triple threat.
Don't think for a minute that was an empty threat he made.
Threat you me with telling of the king?
News and current affairs
The problem exists in all countries affected by the threat of terrorism, though in many it has not become quite as specific.
BEIJING - Before July 2007, most economists agreed that global imbalances were the most important threat to global growth.
The common threat of international terrorism must be faced jointly.
The Council would declare that further proliferation of nuclear weapons is a threat to peace, and that any country moving in that direction is subject to sanctions.
Yet it also noted that the region's biodiversity was under massive threat, with little or no protection.
For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.
Indeed, the most curious aspect of the ECB's position was its threat not to accept restructured government bonds as collateral if the ratings agencies decided that the restructuring should be classified as a credit event.
It had an antecedent, that is, a lack of pre-emptive resistance at home and abroad to the threat that built up in Nazi Germany during the 1930's.
In this connection, Pakistan views the Karzai government in Kabul as unfriendly to Islamabad and a threat to its key strategic interests.
But, by aiding the Taliban, Pakistan is playing with fire, because there are now also Pakistani Talibans who pose a threat to Pakistan.
While the war in Iraq has been based on wishful thinking, the war in Afghanistan was necessary and unavoidable because it was there that the terrorist threat of September 11, 2001, originated.
During the Cold War, most Europeans tolerated America's tendency to lead unilaterally, because of the Soviet threat and the preponderance of US power.
Closing Chernobyl will not eliminate the Chernobyl threat.
In other words, we must act in accordance with the recognition that climate change and its effects on people in both rich and poor countries remains a threat to global security.
Developing countries have lagged behind in this process, but, with the common threat of global warming, there is now growing pressure to adopt conservation policies.
But autonomous economic regions should be avoided as a threat to Afghan national unity because they would play into the hands of the warlords.
Pakistan's government does not share the same threat assessments or priorities as its American benefactor.
Given the magnitude of the threat to the world's coral reefs, the international community's response has been frighteningly slow.
Euro-skepticism, on the other hand, and the looming threat of anti-European populism, is directly linked to the idea that the EU is not merely incapable of offering a solution to the crisis, but in fact is part of the problem.
Japan, whose economic recovery is attributable largely to its deepening ties with China in recent years, is also eager to demonstrate that it regards China not as a threat but as an opportunity, as least in economic terms.
It takes a threat to oil supplies to get world leaders to pay attention to Africa.