Sentence examples for uncertain threats from inspiring English sources

What better example could he have hoped for of the uncertain threats against which British nuclear weapons might be an insurance?

"We remain to be convinced the Army 2020 plan represents a fully thought-through and tested concept which will allow the Army to counter emerging and uncertain threats and develop capability to deal with unforeseen circumstances".

In the end Mr. Brzezinski poses but does not really answer the essential question: Can a democratic superpower, rendered vulnerable by hidden and uncertain threats, advance its security by strengthening and binding itself to the world, or will it lash out in a way that leaves itself isolated?

Climate change must be treated like all real but uncertain threats.

Poor water management, increased competition for limited water resources, and the uncertain threats associated with global warming all highlight the looming water crisis that threatens agricultural productivity worldwide.

Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions.

The excellent coverage of "Avian Flu: The Uncertain Threat" (March 28) omits a fundamentally important word: evolution.

"Intelligent design" theory will not have the slightest usefulness in assessing or coping with this uncertain threat.

The Kyoto pact was seen in many countries as a courageous if imperfect attempt to come to grips with an impossibly complex and uncertain threat.

The fudgy square presents an immediate reward, compared with an amorphous, uncertain threat of extra kilos some time in the future and possible disease even later.

As an adult, in 2004, he told the soldiers under his command to stay back while he walked toward an uncertain threat.