"threaten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A long-lived, slow-growing species, they are gravely threatened by overfishing, habitat degradation and catastrophic natural events such as bushfires.
- Personality wise, Jamie is very cowardly and often runs at the first sign of danger, only showing bravery when he or his friends are gravely threatened.
- Were Pakistan and its nuclear weapons to fall under the control of Islamic fundamentalists, American security would be gravely threatened.
- He contended that goals like universal access would be gravely threatened if the world went to Internet-based services that were unregulated.
- The social fabric of our nation could be gravely threatened because they consistently put ideology over common sense.
- Ayub himself "felt gravely threatened by Maudoodi".
- The Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia seemed thereby gravely threatened.
- (2) Meanwhile the Spartans at last prepared to defend their own position in Greece, which was so gravely threatened.
- This unfortunate land is gravely threatened.
- Stocks of tuna in the Mediterranean Sea are also gravely threatened.
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