The phrase "a basic threat to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing potential dangers or risks posed to something or someone, often in a straightforward or fundamental context.
Example: "The report highlighted a basic threat to public health posed by the pollution in the area."
Alternatives: "a fundamental danger to" or "a primary risk to".
It is a basic threat to the economic security of the world.
The mad were lumped in with the poor and indigent as a basic threat to the social values on which a mercantile economy rested.
Indeed, by rendering our judgments unstable and prone to conflict, the emotions may pose a basic threat to human social life.
Deepak Gupta, who argued the Concepcion case in 2011, calls arbitration "a basic threat to our democracy".
The Interior Minister suggested everyone step back and cool off, but the Prime Minister continued to insist that the burkini was a basic threat to the future of France.
Deepak Gupta, who argued the Concepcion case in 2011, calls arbitration "a basic threat to our democracy". Incredibly, Wells Fargo went so far as to try and use a separate case to sweep this whole overdraft saga under the rug.
One needs to look no further than the arrest of two black men waiting in Starbucks to see that the most basic threat to the white feelings of safety or comfort quickly turns waiting into trespassing.
And yet at the heart of it was a basic threat of war, which neither side ever relinquished; both India and Pakistan felt quite emotional about these issues even as they were manipulating the chessboard.
"These industries rely on a basic threat: If you mess with us, we can turn the seniors against you," said former Senator Alan K. Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, who tried cutting Medicare payments while he was in Congress.
That change in approach has involved the open endorsement of an ideology that Russia's political leadership calls "conservatism". In the ideology of the Putin regime, hostility toward the West has assumed an increasingly prominent position, as Putin charges that the West is generating the most basic threats to Russia's identity, its security, and its domestic stability.
Although epidemiologists are aware of basic threats to inferential validity from observational studies, there is little agreement, even among workshop participants, on whether epidemiologists should consider the policy implications of declaring an association to be causal.
