"threat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is much we can do now to be able to respond to whatever threats confront our communities in the future, be they anthrax, smallpox or bioterrorism in a form we have not yet imagined.
- Her training has prepared her for moving stealthily into hostile territory and neutralizing whatever threats may confront her.
- More urgent threats confront us below.
- No such imminent threat confronts the Social Security trust fund as a result of Congressional action taken in 1983.
- The threats confront both countries: There are 6,000 United States soldiers and 50,000 American civilians in Saudi Arabia.
- Both the major reallocating of state aid the bill would require and Ms. Morheuser's threat of the lawsuit compound problems already confronting local school-budget officers.
- But what about the existing threat confronting our communities, the one that the EDL thugs are attempting to confront in their own violent and misguided way.
- The text is also useful in that it provides a more precise (although specialized) definition of the concept: "any cognitive situation in which the threat of inconsistency confronts us" (1).
- Officials say the Bush Administration's blunt threat to cut off financial support for the W.H.O. has confronted many developing countries with a painful choice between support for the P.L.O. and the loss of badly needed medical assistance.
- The greatest threats to our world need confronting, and practical and workable solutions need to be found.
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