The phrase "threatening factor" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a factor or situation that could potentially be dangerous or damaging. For example, "Climate change is a threatening factor that is having a negative effect on the environment."
Food waste (FW) related issues in developing countries is currently considered to be a major threatening factor for sustainable development and FW management systems.
Fragment size and isolation affect both communities but the last one seems to be a stronger threatening factor for the epiphylls.
Among the landscape components taken into account, urban/industrial land areas turned out as the most threatening factor for both total species richness and the richness of the ancient forest species.
But given the global interconnectedness of financial institutions — and connectedness, not size, is the relevant and threatening factor here — the Fed and Congresss) could easily be back in the bailout business unless proactive steps are taken.
The most threatening factor of the area was that Juhapura did not have the positive image among suppliers.
Second, we found a weak measure of invariance across groups with respect to the threatening factor scales used in this study.
A one-way ANOVA was used to examine the associations among professional status, threatening factors and variables of professional well-being.
Since vision loss, by itself, is not readily regarded as a life-threatening factor, it may indicate a more serious problem (e.g. diabetes, stroke).
Although some items were withdrawn by the instrumentation, these do not threaten the factor structure.
A condition known as insulin resistance is emerging as yet another risk factor threatening the good health of your heart.
"What are hungry, frustrated people going to do? Climate change could be the single most important factor threatening [US] national security," Heinrichs suggests.
