"threatening position" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe an act, event, or situation that people feel is intimidating or intimidatingly powerful. For example, "The government's growing influence puts its citizens in a threatening position."
He had denied Bryan Habana an early score and was still at it in the closing stages when he snuffed out a threatening position with a clattering tackle on the considerably larger frame of the No 8 Duane Vermeulen.
Avoiding inconsistent information prevents them from threatening position which could modify their attitude.
Long did get into a threatening position at the other end moments later but his low cross was gathered by Almer as Walters threatened to pounce.
Freekick to Atletico in a threatening position.
Every time a Celtic player gets the ball in a threatening position he is instantly engulfed.
We're purely defensive, and the reason we have to be defensive is because there is a threatening position of the DMZ, so we long for peace.
Nicolás Otamendi, meanwhile, was a disaster at right-back, committing foul after foul in threatening positions.
The chief culprit was Fernando, who gave away possession in threatening positions, a cardinal sin for all holding midfielders.
Roy Keane's response to the busy, bustling presence of Ray Parlour was placid - not a description often applied to his game - and Paul Scholes took up threatening positions without making much of them.
The administration rightly declares America's goals to be verifiable limits on North Korea's development and export of long-range missiles, international inspections of Pyongyang's nuclear facilities and shifting the North's conventional forces, now facing South Korea, into less threatening positions.
Both teams adopted defensive tactics in the first half but Donegal showed the greater ability to break tackles as Frank McGlynn and youngster McHugh were able to burst into threatening positions on a number of occasions.
