The financial threat looming from the lawsuits already filed and coming is enormous.

To opponents, it was partly a financial threat.

The outsized Israeli phone bills were an aggravation, if not a financial threat.

But the university also faces an immediate financial threat.

A. The significance of litigation is not its financial threat to the tobacco companies.

But the appeals court ruling, for now, eliminates the government's biggest potential financial threat to the tobacco industry from the case.

And an even larger financial threat is looming: the cost of lead paint abatement.

The state lawsuits represent the major regulatory and financial threat they face.

Few of those cases represent financial threats for the future, analysts said.

With 177 stores and less than 1 percent of the market, Whole Foods is not yet much of a financial threat.