Sentence examples for a gathering threat from inspiring English sources

In the Free Syrian Army, the government faces what is surely a gathering threat.

Lower wage levels in the neighbouring eastern countries are a gathering threat.

In Iraq, we dealt with a gathering threat, and removed the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq was a gathering threat, and Al Qaeda was largely unchallenged as it planned attacks.

"The senator used to recognize that Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat who hated America," Mr. Bush said.

First, the lesson of Sept. 11 is when this nation sees a threat, a gathering threat, we've got to deal with it.

A few years later, Cronkite saw a similar gathering threat to the American body politic in the Watergate scandal, and CBS was alone in devoting two lengthy reports to that abuse of power, well ahead of the competition.

A pre-emptive strike against a "grave and gathering threat" requires more explanation.

"Beijing does present a clear and gathering threat to Washington," Mr. Halper writes.

"There is just no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was a grave and gathering threat to America and the world," Mr. Bush told reporters as he met with the Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski.

President Bush declined Tuesday to repeat his claims that evidence that Saddam Hussein had illicit weapons would eventually be found in Iraq, but he insisted that the war was nonetheless justified because Mr. Hussein posed "a grave and gathering threat to America and the world".