Republicans, in particular, are acutely aware that economic troubles could seriously threaten them in next year's elections.

Carter realized that this unexpected visit must mean that trouble threatened.

Where trouble threatened, The Shadow would be needed.

Easily bored, he did what he wanted, knowing how to duck when trouble threatened.

But when the first flush of light filtered through the water, trouble threatened.

Falsythe had large interests in the shipping industry, and when trouble threatened he liked to observe the situation at close range.

So Willow accompanied him with some sense of assurance that if trouble threatened, Dirk was probably its equal.

The trouble he could smell in the air threatened to be far more serious than a mobsters' shoot-out.

That report had a special importance this day for, if any trouble threatened, the Prince knew he could not afford to go dancing in Brussels.

When trouble threatened the one, the other would be by his side.