Sentence examples for threat means from inspiring English sources

Minimising the threat means doing more in places where jihadism flourishes.Then there is oil.

For three English-speaking Montrealers, facing an outside threat means relying only on one another.

The increased threat means the public expects properly funded counter-terrorist forces, including police, and rightly so.

The uncomfortable truth is that the slow response to this urgent threat means some climate change is now inevitable.

That their riders are unfancied – and no legitimate threat – means the team has a freedom that it would not have if it were more successful.

He says the Isis threat means that "we need a firm security response, whether that is military action to go after the terrorists, international cooperation on intelligence and counter-terrorism, or uncompromising action against terrorists at home".

But what does that threat mean?

It's a vaguely erotic threat, meant to upset Kate.

But the perceived Soviet threat meant that US leadership was never itself threatened.

So Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Wednesday sent a blunt message, a threat meant to have the effect achieved on Saturday afternoon, when Mr. Craig announced his resignation.

Martin O'Neill would reluctantly accept Euro 2016 games being played behind closed doors if the ongoing terror threat meant that was the only alternative.