Sentence examples for compelling threat from inspiring English sources

It is not as if Iran presents any immediate, compelling threat.

Climate change is now recognized as a compelling threat among members of the lay public, not just the scientific community.

"Without a compelling threat, an immediate threat," Mr. Spratt said, "I don't think cutting education or the environment is going to work".

Mr. Bush, he argued, had relegated those problems to the back burner, adding that North Korea "was a far more compelling threat in many ways, and it belonged at the top of the agenda".

Mr. Kerry argued in his interview that North Korea "'was a far more compelling threat in many ways, and it belonged at the top of the agenda," but Mr. Bush declined to compare it to Iraq, apart from arguing that Iraq had defied the world community for longer than the other members of what he once called "the axis of evil".

But the strategic logic needs to be compelling, the threat to our national interest obvious, the case for war airtight.

What makes Counter-Strike so compelling is the threat of death that hangs over the player.

But Eliyahu Stern's comparisons to 19th-century Europe are not compelling because the perceived threat from Shariah law is not primarily connected to American Muslims (as the perceived threat of Jewish law was primarily connected to European Jews).

The need for expedited discovery is even more compelling given the imminent threat of further coerced repatriations.

By providing clear and compelling evidence of a threat, these events generate wide consensus among the political elite that the U.S. must increase its military power.

But when it comes to American citizens, there must be compelling evidence that the threat the citizen poses is imminent and that capturing the citizen is not a realistic option.