From here on in, more threats would only diminish fear and action could somehow strangely eliminate it.

That threat has now diminished, although it has not totally disappeared.

Be that as it may, you assume the Soviet threat is diminishing significantly.

And in the China of today, threats from the central authorities have diminished influence.

"As that threat diminishes, so does the need to confirm it."

Government and private experts agree that the threat of war with the Soviet Union is diminishing.

The spokesman said Washington's position has long been that when the threat to international shipping in the gulf diminished, "so would our presence."

The idea that the terrorist threat has not diminished is debatable and should be debated here.

He did not explain at what point he would consider the Iraqi threat "seriously diminished."

"Moreover, in our time, these threats are not diminishing," he said.