Sentence examples for threat gained from inspiring English sources

The threat gained greater urgency with the impending publication in the United States of "God Is Red," a book by Mr. Liao about Chinese Christians, and a memoir about his time in jail, "The Witness of the 4th of June".

The risk, of course, is that the heated rhetoric and implied threats gain a momentum of their own.

Never an offensive threat, he gained fame for his hustling, acrobatic defense as one of Utah's "Blitz Boys".

Employers value not only the level of threat intelligence gained in the armed forces, but also the organisational and logistical experience.

The question of whether cyberwar is a serious threat has gained more attention in recent months.

The question of whether protected areas truly do mitigate environmental threats has gained increasing attention [11], [51], [52].

What some of them want is independence; all of them use this as a more or less explicit threat to gain more public money and powers.

Its government worries that competition from Chinese factories and American farms represents too great a threat, while gaining more access to world markets is of only limited attraction.Other poor countries are also unsure what they would gain.

Several people with knowledge of the issue said that the prospect of a vote by the council had been used in recent weeks as a threat to gain support for new regulations among S.E.C. commissioners.

The government says it is considering the possibility of requesting an international force - it could be an empty threat to gain more leverage on all the militias - but it could also be that they feel they have run out of options.

Analyses of the types of seeds gathered, together with information from questionnaires about the visitors' travel habits in the year before their Antarctic visit, suggest that between 50% and 60% of the seeds reaching Antarctica arrived from areas with similarly cold climates and therefore pose a threat of gaining a foothold.