Sentence examples for threat of clashes from inspiring English sources

It has not taken public protests or workers' strikes to force a climbdown merely the threat of clashes with bureaucrats and vested interests.

The Foreign Office warned of there being "a high threat of clashes between the Kenyan military and armed Somali groups along the border", citing recent attacks on Mandera by Somali militias; heavy fighting was reported over the weekend between al-Shabaab and Somalia's transitional federal government forces near the town.

On the timing of the next general elections: There continues to be threats of violence; we still see certain groups of people not allowing their political opponents to campaign freely, and always threats of clashes between supporters.

Meanwhile, with the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians unresolved, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon represent a chronic threat of violent clashes with Israel.

The ELN recently published a report warning of the increasing threat of a clash between Russian and Nato planes, not just around Turkey but also over the Baltic Sea, where the Russian air force has been flying close to, and occasionally into, the airspace of Nato members.

Similarly the perceived threat that people from Bangladesh will immigrate to northeastern part of India due to its low population density once climate change intensifies cyclones, floods and sea level rise in the coastal belt of Bangladesh has raised threats of ethnic clashes and violence in the region.

As the Muslim Brotherhood planned competing protests on Friday, Egyptians faced another threat of bloody street clashes in what has become a long and wearying cycle.

Mr. Khatami has repeatedly used the threat of resignation in clashes between his reform-minded government and the Guardian Council, a 12-member body dominated by clerics that has sweeping power in Iran.

The threat of a military clash prompted the South Korean authorities to block the activists, mostly defectors from the North, from reaching Imjingak, a border village northwest of Seoul, where they had planned to release the balloons.

The threat of an immediate clash in the Gulf appeared to recede over the weekend when the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier and its task force, including the British frigate HMS Argyll and a French warship, travelled through the strait of Hormuz without incident.

Since being quoted (Culture clash as threat of 100% cut in arts funding divides city, 30 January) describing Newcastle's approach as a "political stunt", there's been some misunderstanding about what I meant by that phrase (Letters, 2 February).