Sentence examples for barely a threat from inspiring English sources

Competition from BSkyB's digital rival, ITV's ONdigital, and the cable operators, NTL and Telewest, has been an irritant to BSkyB but barely a threat.

Right now the academy barely poses a threat to larger institutions like the School of American Ballet or the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theater.

The game was held here in Volos, 40 miles from Larissa's Alkazar Stadium, because that does not meet Uefa standards, and for half an hour Larissa barely posed a threat.

Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.

For the Potters, defeat sees them slip to 16th and boss Mark Hughes may have to reconsider his attacking options after a performance in which his team offered barely any threat until they went two goals behind.

Ed Davey, a spokesman for the opposition Liberal Democrats, said Britain had "rolled over in the face of a barely credible threat from a friend" and accused Mr. Miliband of standing "in the way of allowing justice to take its course".

Italy made a barely veiled threat along these lines this week.

This was a barely veiled threat against the National League for Democracy and its leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the commanding symbol of the pro-democracy movement.

He has alleged improprieties in a charity for the handicapped run by the family of Salman Khurshid, the country's new foreign minister — prompting a barely veiled threat from Mr. Khurshid.

Then he offered a barely veiled threat to the security of Russia's 2014 Sochi Olympics.

It was a barely veiled threat towards the Hutus living in Katoyi.