"threat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As always, threats to commerce provoked the creation of navies to police the trade lanes, and the first system navies of interstellar warships appeared.
- Likewise, the threat of international peacekeeping troops could provoke further violence in an already unstable Muslim world.
- In Washington, the threat provokes less alarm than mirth.
- The boldness of his words took Kasak by surprise, disarming whatever threat or action his statements might have provoked.
- The promise, or threat, has already provoked controversies in several states.
- A threat expressed in guns and missiles provoked a response of guns and missiles.
- A threat to a person's property in his presence might very well provoke the use of force by way of self-protection, which would seem to qualify.
- The threat of its use often provokes a violent reaction from one's adversaries, especially when that adversary feels surprised and insecure.
- He couldn't let Steej's threats provoke him into saying something that might expose him.
- This is one reason America's threat to bomb Iraq is provoking such resistance.
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