Sentence examples for powerful threat from inspiring English sources
"Investigation by the licensing authority is a powerful threat, almost guaranteed to induce the desired conduct".
They view the rise of democracy in Iraq as a powerful threat to their ambitions.
-- C. M., Australia You should alert your current employer to this powerful threat lurking over the horizon.
But many companies win these battles because of a powerful threat: a bankruptcy filing that bondholders would rather avoid.
The city has not yet used eminent domain to help Ikea, but it is a powerful threat.
But, and this is the heart of what I want to say today, I do see powerful threats to what I think of as serious journalism, the craft of a Charles Wheeler and a Jon Snow.
Black has to be more creative after 26.Ne6 with 26...Bf6!! 27.Nxf8 Kxf8 with powerful threats, e.g. 28.Qc2 c4 29.Qd2 Rb3 winning; or 28.Rc2 Rb3 29.Rhc1 Nc6 and the threat 30...Nb4 decides, since after 30.Qxd5 Bxc3+ 31.Rxc3 Qb2 mates.
"Koreans' nationalism is a modern phenomenon with roots in Korea's history of relative isolation and self-enclosed identity in the face of powerful threats and occasional invasions from China, Japan, and more recently Europe and the US," Armstrong told me.
Under progressive protectionism they have to be sited here to sell here and at a stroke the all-powerful threat of relocation is rendered impotent.
That powerful, lingering threat is the difference between Las Vegas and other cities.
