These cracks appeared to have been caused by quakes, but they had not been repaired, and might have been left to slow down any threatening force.

Pterin's manner and the threatening force of tough fighters he had brought with him had the other priest much on edge.

But rather more often it is the woman who is seen as a threatening force.

His efforts transformed the Godavari River system from a threatening and deadly natural force into a tame and fertile water resource.

At least there was no sign that the threatening forces the Prince had just escaped were going to pursue him here outside the City.

But the Croatian Army is the only threatening force in the area.

The presence of such a threatening force in the galaxy had heightened their conviction that they needed to regain their power-and their numbers-at all costs.

Meanwhile, as diplomacy delays military action, the coalition can continue to assemble an ever more threatening force.

It is only the larger and more threatening forces, like mountains, that are deprived of sight.

They also provide incentives for the Soviet Union to move to a less threatening force of single-warhead, land-based missiles.