Sentence examples for more distant threat from inspiring English sources

"Syria is a more distant threat.

Medvedev's darker, but also more distant threat to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad and Krasnodar to target Poland and Romania, is, of course, anything but smart.

Some analysts contend that high-speed Internet connections will ultimately make discs less relevant as consumers download more music and movies, though this is a more distant threat.

With some sanctions lifted and a more distant threat of military action, Iran may resume its games again; Mr Obama would only be curbing the Iranian threat, not eradicating it.

When they are older, it's not Big Mother who is likely to be reading, but their friends and their frenemies, with teachers, administrators and parents a more distant threat.

Even if Mr Putin is bluffing about nuclear weapons (and there is no reason to think he is), any nationalist leader who comes after him could be even more dangerous.Towards midnightChina poses a more distant threat, but an unignorable one.

People innately fear more immediate dangers that can be readily imagined than more distant threats.

It has been suggested that women may perceive themselves to be less susceptible to osteoporosis with age because the longer they live without experiencing the disease, the more distant the threat of the disease appears, the more likely they are to perceive the disease occurrence to be low, or the more dissimilar they view themselves to women with the disease [ 24].

In fact, as with the more distant but existential threat of climate change, terrorism is something that has to be dealt with cross-border.

Children who carry knives are unlikely to understand consequences and fear the immediate threat of violence and ridicule among their peers far more than the distant threat of court sentencing and custody.

The Pacific tsunami warning centre said the quake generated a wave that could cause destruction along nearby shores "and could also be a threat to more distant coasts".