Sentence examples for our threats from inspiring English sources

Sudan evicted Osama bin Laden not because of American nation-building but because of our threats.

In the future, we would then need increasingly strong evidence that we would be willing to use military force to successfully deter through our threats.

'What then becomes of all our resolutions?' Connolly agonised; 'all our protests of fraternity, all our threats of general strikes, all our carefully built machinery of internationalism.

We have failed miserably in our attempts to deal with authoritarian governments that do not respond as we desire to our threats, economic or military.

"I am very much open to, and want the administration to feel, that they can think through this issue in terms of what numbers are still required, given the state of the world and where our threats are," Mr. Levin said.

The world has moved from a cold-war system, in which our biggest threats and opportunities flowed from whom we were divided from and which was symbolized by the Berlin Wall, to a globalization system, in which our threats and opportunities now tend to flow from whom we're connected to, and which is symbolized by the World Wide Web.

With traditional telephony, our threat model was mostly government wiretapping.

This year's threat assessment illustrates how dramatically the world and our threat environment are changing.

"Our threat assessments are fundamentally misaligned," a former American negotiator told me.

Our threat perceptions may currently differ, but Russia could also be threatened by ballistic missiles.

We thought we would have to make good on our threat.