The phrase "a threatening force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an entity or situation that poses a danger or intimidation to someone or something.
Example: "The storm was a threatening force that disrupted the entire city, causing widespread panic and damage."
Alternatives: "an intimidating presence" or "a menacing influence."
The Romney camp, on the other hand, views Islamists — even the most moderate — as a potentially threatening force.
If we can get some more consistency and sort the discipline out, we could be a really threatening force.
At first, it was an enemy, an impossibly vast, threatening force, hiding hostile "savages" and foiling attempts to farm.
In this way, the new machines of mass reproduction and diffusion that fill modern times, from the daguerreotype to the World Wide Web, came not simply as a new or threatening force but also as the fulfillment of a standing American dream.
Lots of small errors in judgment can turn into an offensive or even threatening force.
This silence and loyalty to Bush has always seemed out of place given the well-publicised ambivalence Bush and Karl Rove felt towards Powell, who they saw as a threatening political force that they needed to neutralise.
Alice tells Robert that his mother has died and that her last words were a warning about a threatening dark force (Va Vaa! dit-elle).
Assistant secretary of state Daniel Russel also said this week that Russia's annexation of Crimea heightened concern, particularly among some Southeast Asian nations, about the possibility of China "threatening force or other forms of coercion to advance their territorial interests".
It has an elected president and an elected parliament, and its 20m people enjoy rights and prosperity unknown to the 1.2 billion across the strait.By routinely threatening force against Taiwan, China equates itself with Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, both of whom shed blood to preserve their empires.
