Sentence examples for threat providing from inspiring English sources

Although Bargnani made 30 percent of his 3-pointers the last two years and averaged 12.7 points last season, Woodson stressed that he was still talented enough to be an offensive threat, providing support and creating space for Carmelo Anthony.

Perhaps it would not have been quite so dramatic or severe without the solecisms of the Bush presidency, but without an external threat providing a sense of urgency and danger, David Frum, Pat Buchanan and James Dobson share too few common interests to hold a party together particularly if that party decides to base itself on cultural and religious matters.

Rosenstock noted that the combination of perceived susceptibility and severity has been labeled 'perceived threat', with the threat providing the energy or force to act [ 32].

US officials hope the threat provides them with leverage.

Hakeem Nicks, their best deep threat, provided an upbeat development Friday.

Second, the Soviet threat provided a powerful incentive for Western Europeans to unite during the cold war.

The BBFC's guidelines for a 12A allow "moderate physical and psychological threat, provided that the disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained".

Strategically, the North Korean threat provides justification for Japan and South Korea to strengthen their defence capabilities, while bolstering their alliance ties with the US in a manner that directly undermines China's regional security priorities.

However, it may well conclude that a credible nuclear threat provides its only real means of deterring a potential American attack which, no matter how often America promises it has no plans for one, it evidently fears.

From the war room of "Dr. Strangelove" to the fallout shelters of "Seven Days in May" to the underwater battlegrounds of "The Hunt for Red October," the Soviet threat provided ready-made villainy and near-Pavlovian dread.

That threat provides a sobering subtext to the hyperactivity, which involves Prime Ministerial photocalls, expensively produced blueprints and a blizzard of self-justification, driven by statistics which are no longer taken at face value.