Sentence examples for background threat from inspiring English sources

The latter's presence looks like it will be clearly felt in Fantastic Beasts, though perhaps as the kind of background threat that Voldemort presented in the early Potter books and movies.

That is, representatives of an active constituency of weekly worshippers of 8% of the British population, all of them votaries of ancient superstitions, all of them with grubby hands rummaging in the pot of public funds, and some of them doing it with the useful background threat of violence and civil unrest unless the rummaging pays off.

All results still hold if the background threat takes the form of a reducing in government subsidies.

This paper develops an economic model to analyze the use of a policy that combines a voluntary approach to controlling nonpoint-source pollution with a background threat of an ambient tax if the voluntary approach is unsuccessful in meeting a pre-specified environmental goal.

To this end, we measure each event in two ways, first without any consideration of the event's time proximity or its significance relative to the so-called background threat, and then in the context of the expected risk from other objects over the intervening years until the impact.

The exception to this is when an agent offers to help another overcome a background threat (a threat that was not introduced by the proposal).

Because of his football background, the threat of a hard foul does not scare him -- remember the hit he took from P. J. Brown in the 1997 playoffs.

In the background hover threats of great retaliation in the form of tariffs or other trade barriers if one nation does not agree to ceilings on emissions.

Updated at 3.25pm BST 10.33am BST Julian Borger, our diplomatic editor, has some interesting background on the "threat" issued by Britain.

Lurking in the background is a threat from the religious Shas Party to leave Mr. Olmert's coalition as soon as talks on Jerusalem begin.

But most of Mr. Bush's talk tonight was meant to be inspirational and help Americans adjust to a new era when normal life goes on against a background of the threat of catastrophic terrorism.