Sentence examples for standing threat from inspiring English sources
They appear now to be finally making good on a long standing threat to buy success at home and in Europe.
Aside from the standing threat from Hamas and other militants in Gaza, the exercise included scenarios for more complex and far-flung threats.
With Reid's standing threat to filibuster bank deregulation, Brown's moderate underlings had no real incentive to freelance with Republicans, since the entire party would eventually be ordered to vote against a deregulation bill on the floor.
In a primitive religious democracy, surrounded by hostile Indian tribes and living under the crown's standing threat to revoke its colonial charter, it was potentially fatal.
Its disadvantages -- as a standing threat, every few elections, to arbitrarily thwart the will of the people and open a wide gap between the spirit and the letter of the law -- are in plain view.
The possibility of discovery (or postulation) of alternative 'natural' means of production would constitute a standing threat to any argument resting in part on a perceived absence of such means.
The problem is that we all have the power to inflict that evil on one another — even the strongest man can be murdered while he sleeps — and so we are forced to treat one another as standing threats.
There remains a long-standing threat from H5N1, which though rarer is fatal in two-thirds of cases.
This week's announcement that the municipal authorities had approved the renovation represented the final removal of a long-standing threat.
Captain Solo was found hiding in a rubbish skip and was declared to have been drunk.The Commonwealth summit, held in Edinburgh, decided it would not carry out a long-standing threat to expel Nigeria.
Dressed up as a nesting doll for Halloween in 2012 and 2013, the latter instance of which was the last fucking straw for Anna and forced her to act on her long-standing threat to leave you for Derrick Jones, who, coincidentally, was cast as the Nutcracker twice: There, there.
