Sentence examples for threat to face from inspiring English sources

LESS than an hour after a Nissan Pathfinder was found spewing smoke and rigged with a car bomb on West 45th Street on May 1, several members of the Analytic Unit had gathered at their secret office on the West Side of Manhattan trying to assess what, by all accounts, was the most severe terror threat to face the city in years.

Police officers loitered on Prospect Avenue, waiting for a threat to face as partiers watched Trump's speech from behind the glass windows of Flannery's bar.

Thus, test questions are construed as a direct threat to face.

Further systematic exploration of the data set may reveal test question sequences that are associated with a threat to face, and it will be important to explore how these differ from the examples here in terms of interactional context.

However, for Alex and Graham, it is possible that the interactional joint activity of reminiscing about their trip may reduce any threat to face engendered in the sequence of test questions that Alex asks.

Sometimes they can be a positive method of promoting language use (Aaltonen & Laakso, 2010; Bauer & Kulke, 2004) and, in other instances, a behaviour that engenders a threat to face, arouses frustration and even distress (Burch et al., 2002; Lock et al., 2001).

We have far worse threats to face on their behalf.

'Where's Mommy?': A family fled death threats, only to face separation at the border.

"[T]he best insurance policy against these threats is to face the challenges of climate change and our nation's failing infrastructure simultaneously".

"That's the ultimate threat we have to face up to.

We have to push the United States to use international organizations to face threats to our common security".