Sentence examples for distinct threat from inspiring English sources

Still, "the strength and timing of the pickup remained uncertain and further weakness was a distinct threat in the near term," the Fed panel said.

In his book "Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony" Mr. Ginsborg argues that the unprecedented concentration of power Mr. Berlusconi enjoys because of his combination of political and media control makes him a distinct threat to Italian democracy.

A distinct threat radiates from his nerdish passivity.

As distinct threat adaptations co-opt proximate mechanisms related to anxiety, focusing on anxiety-reduction risks obscuring important functional differences.

Finally, constituencies within the health care system participate in enhanced advocacy efforts to raise awareness of poverty as a distinct threat to child health and to press for public policy responses such as minimum wage increases, expansion of tax credits, paid family leave, universal preschool education, and other priorities focused on child poverty.

King has defended the hearings, saying that radical Islam is a distinct threat that merits investigation, even though such an inquiry might not be "politically correct".

The NYT allegations pose two distinct threats to that continued success.

Like "weapons of mass destruction", they describe several different distinct threats, and are often used with imprecision.

The Fed is facing two distinct threats — an apparent slowing of the economy over the intermediate term and a short-term market panic that has caused lenders (both banks and investors) to tighten credit lines, putting a squeeze on banks and other institutions that rely on short-term borrowing.

Emerging Asia and Latin America will be more buoyant, but financial firms will face two distinct threats: higher interest rates in overheating economies, and less lending in countries exposed to the slowing developed world.The racier corners of the financial industry will have a particularly unpleasant year.

Absolutely right, one cannot fight an ideology, but these are real and distinct threats - to local, regional, and international security.