Sentence examples for external menace from inspiring English sources

A similar external menace is pushing at Henry's bubble.

While Russia may lurk as an unknown military quantity, the chief external menace is from fanatics like the Woolwich murderers.

They've usually been assigned a walk-on presence as the surly brats that divorcing parents fight over or as bland symbols of innocence under threat from some external menace – Skins, also written by Jack Thorne, being a notable exception.

The most-threatening problem Heraclius faced was the external menace of the Avars and the Persians, and neither people abated that pressure during the first years of the new reign.

Cai did not elaborate on what these distractions were, but there's no mystery there; thanks to the proliferation of social media, the spectacular scandals induced by the Party's internal nepotism and corruption have caused a louder racket than any external menace its leaders can drum up.

Have you seen the levels of poverty that exist because of your government's conscious decisions on benefits?" The image lingered: not the external menace of the immigrant, but the internal decrepitude of the food bank, the homeless huddling around the depot.

A prion disease was suspected when the following signs were displayed: a combination of apprehension and gait abnormalities (stiff or ataxic gait) or a combination of over-reactivity to external stimuli (menace response testing and response to neck prick) and gait abnormalities in the absence of other abnormalities that could have explained these signs.

All BSE- and scrapie-affected goats displayed abnormalities in sensation (over-reactivity to external stimuli, startle responses, pruritus, absent menace response) and movement (ataxia, tremor, postural deficits) at an advanced clinical stage but the first detectable sign associated with scrapie or BSE could vary between animals.

This pig displayed over-reactivity to external stimuli prior to cull, which included both over-reactivity to the menace response testing and over-reactivity to neck probing.

In all the Scottish actor's best work there's a hint of menace and a feeling of an internal war being conducted underneath the external bluster.

Menace, menace and menace".