Sentence examples for threatening possibility from inspiring English sources

They write that during debate preps, some staff members assigned to Sarah Palin by the McCain campaign discussed the "threatening possibility: that Palin was mentally unstable".

Advisors Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Mark Salter and Rick Davis reportedly held a meeting on 27 September to begin "discussing a new and threatening possibility: that Palin [is] mentally unstable".

The article looked at how the focus on the school toilets as a source of the disease "may have masked the more threatening possibility the children were involved in sexual contact".

The argument about motion does not quite make it explicit that this is what he is committed to, but it is a reasonable inference: given his insistence that bodies are always at one place or another at any given time, he might well suppose that infinite divisibility of time would open up the threatening possibility of indeterminacy as to whether the change of place has taken place.

But there are cracks in both that allow us to elide aspects of what constitutes "normal" or even "reality" ― realism by enforcing a norm that ignores threatening possibilities, un-realism by casting actual aspects of modern reality as elements of a fantasy world.

The intensification of force used against demonstrators has led to concern that protesters will retaliate, threatening the possibility of a broad war that could engulf the country.

Practices are expanding, with larger teams and more enlisted patients, thereby threatening the possibility for patients to choose their doctor and stay with him.

In many places practices are expanding, with larger teams and more registered patients, thereby threatening the possibility of patients staying with their own general practitioner (GP).

In some states, if your ex stops paying alimony, you can ask the court to hold your ex in contempt (or issue an "earnings assignment order" to garnish wages).[49] This may provide incentives for your ex to pay what is owed, such as threatening the possibility of jail time.

A fire won't be possible and hypothermia is a life-threatening possibility.

"I think the assumption was that the Americans must have learned their lesson, that there would be budget conflicts, but nobody again would threaten the possibility that we would default.