Sentence examples for threat of something from inspiring English sources

There's no avoiding the threat of something colliding with Earth.

The restaurant, filled with artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, collectors, critics, gallery owners, hangers-on, hummed with a sense of intrigue and with the threat of something not coming off.

And then there is the threat of something terrible happening to a child somewhere and with the well-informed expectation that the media will be out hunting for someone to blame beyond those who abused or neglected the child.

Or perhaps fulfilling the eternal threat of something to do with the Apple TV will really kick microconsoles into high gear.

It's the threat of something else: the mental collapse.

Thus Britain was facing a "supreme emergency": an (a) imminent threat of (b) something utterly unthinkable from a moral point of view.

In Kagan's case, any fear of looking like a hypocrite was far outweighed by the threat of revealing something potentially flammable about her judicial philosophy and opening up a Pandora's box of irksome follow-up questions.

It's interesting that terms like "doing your bit" and "digging in" hark back to the process of rebuilding nations broken by the Second World War the lasting moment when Europe united against the threat of fascism, something indelibly connected to what's known in Germany as "Nationalstolz".

"For children who face the unnecessary threat of stunting – something that not only deprives them of physical good health but dramatically weakens their potential to learn, to earn a decent income and to contribute to the prosperity and growth of their communities – today's gathering in London underlined a global determination to meet that threat," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake.

Consequently, her encounter with Nocturnal Animals – taking place over three nights while her husband attends a conference – is full of an unspecified threat, a memory of something awry, associated with both the compulsion to read and the fear of reading.

He does not bring cases in Russia or Ukraine because of court corruption and threats of violence, something Forbes should know about since its Moscow editor was murdered just a few years ago (allegedly because of his interest in the type of defendants whom Mr. Marks sues).