Sentence examples for overt threat from inspiring English sources
If confirmed, this would represent an overt threat, and an unusually intense one.
"We are not lawyers and, like most civilians, find the law abstruse and the overt threat of serious punishment extremely disconcerting".
Kerry, who said nuclear-armed North Korea poses an "overt threat, a declared threat to the world", acknowledged that the two had not agreed on the "parameters of exactly what it would do or say".
In a briefing for reporters today, the commander of American ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, said: "Right now the Shia and any Iranian-influenced Shia actions are not an overt threat to coalition forces.
Quite apart from the overt threat, the MP lit the touchpaper of Malaysia's highly flammable racial politics; this was a Malay MP insulting a prominent member of the Indian community.
"And if he utters one threat, in the form of an overt threat — which, by the way, he has been uttering for years, and his family has been uttering for years — or if he does anything with respect to Guam, or any place else that's an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast".
Posting such videos alone, without overt threats of violence, should not necessarily sound alarms, some counterterrorism specialists said Monday.
Even so, officials and scholars say the ISI campaign extends to issuing both tacit and overt threats against those who speak critically about the military.
Some labor consultants have even said privately that a harder line from the mayor -- with more overt threats -- could help labor leaders save face with their rank-and-file members while trying to reach compromises with City Hall.
No overt threats are made, and no explanations given, but the family — Daniel Auteuil, Lester Makedonsky and Juliette Binoche, in her second starring role for Haneke — do the rest of the harasser's work for him.
The ACLU previously found that Geofeedia's marketing materials have referred to unions and activists as "overt threats" and that the company told police its product can help track the "Ferguson situation".
