Sentence examples for plausible threat from inspiring English sources

"Radiological terrorism is a very plausible threat," said Dr. Steven E. Koonin, a physicist and national security expert who is provost of the California Institute of Technology.

As Borlaug turned his attention to high-yield projects for Africa, where mass starvation still seemed a plausible threat, some green organizations became determined to stop him there.

Maria Kirilenko vs. Laura Robson: Robson, the only British player beside Andy Murray considered a plausible threat to reach the second week, was dealt an immediate roadblock by the draw, facing No. 10 Maria Kirilenko in the opening round.

And their tastes matter enormously in Africa because countries such as Zambia earn much of their hard currency from agricultural exports to rich countries, so any plausible threat to this trade has to be taken extremely seriously.In this section The clockwork computer Better dead than GM-fed?

But, as the Wall Street Journal has doggedly pointed out, America's Licence Raj has extended its tentacles into occupations that pose no plausible threat to health or safety occupations, moreover, that are governed by considerations of taste rather than anything that can be objectively measured by licensing authorities.

The existence of the plausible threat from the sovereign in turn makes promise keeping rational.

We only observed systematic effects on anxiety are restricted to plausible threats.

This design is distinguished from quasiexperiments in that the plausible threats to internal validity, regression and maturation, as well as the threats to statistical conclusion validity (Cook and Campbell 1979) must be controlled by a statistical model.

They tend to see the will of the patient as free will, which should take precedent over all other considerations unless the person poses even merely potential albeit plausible threats to others or to herself.

Her enemies were the enemies of all liberals: armed reactionaries, who had murdered her friend the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh for exploring misogyny in the Qur'an, and were making all-too-plausible threats to kill her, too.

Mr Nemtsov did not present any plausible political threat.