Sentence examples for threat at hand from inspiring English sources

In fight or flight, we focus narrowly on the threat at hand, seeking to restore safety at any cost.

That suggests the animal adapts its mimicry to counter the threat at hand, the team says.

Students played the role of the police, of hackers, of the media and of the general public in assessing and responding to the threat at hand.

"When selecting between these two weapons, the choice should be based on a case-specific assessment of the threat at hand, the evidence in possession and a careful consideration of what will best allow us to achieve justice," he said.

(Plus, given that snakesare more of a predatory threat to primates than spiders, studies show that humans detect snakes more rapidly—supporting the idea of amygdala "memories" in which the level of anxiety corresponds to the evolutionary threat at hand).

After Sept. 11, just such a threat is at hand.

General Nkunda had refused to surrender his command and integrate his troops into the national army, as other armed groups had done, contending that Congolese Tutsi faced a unique threat at the hands of the Rwandan Hutu extremists who carried out the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in 1994.

But a more immediate threat lay closer at hand: what he was doing was illegal under British law.

Thus the threat need not be at hand to justify action; the threat need not even be established.

The locals believe he is unconscious and discuss the "situation"; however Black is awake and overhears everything, realising there is a greater threat than savage dogs at hand.

A10 Claims of Cover-Up in China Residents of Dongzhou, China, who claim that a police crackdown on a demonstration on Dec. 6 ended in the deaths of 20 or more people, say that they have endured beatings, bribes and threats at the hands of security forces who have tried to prevent accounts of what happened from emerging.