"threat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rather, many of them behaved as though they did in order to avoid the plausible threat of extreme physical abuse.
- And if it's negotiated away, can it still be claimed that the Soviet Union poses a plausible threat to invade Western Europe?
- No plausible threat yet exists that would justify a major effort to develop and deploy space-based weapons.
- But the striking thing about the Pentagon list is how far its planners had to stretch to come up with any plausible threats.
- What is more, they argue that Washington regulators already have sufficient power to cope with any plausible threat.
- It was a plausible threat.
- The operation against the mech was a success, in the sense that a plausible threat to the ship was removed.
- But we face far more plausible threats than terrorists cutting across Lake Michigan in small boats.
- The money could be better spent addressing more plausible threats like climate change and infectious disease.
- General Powell has criticized Defense Secretary Les Aspin for trying to match American forces to plausible threats.
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