The phrase "underlying threats" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing risks or dangers that are not immediately obvious but may have significant implications.
Example: "The report highlighted several underlying threats to national security that need to be addressed."
Alternatives: "fundamental risks" or "root dangers."
A Tallahassee, Fla., judge ruled that the N.C.A.A. must publicly release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, and criticized the organization for making underlying threats against the university.
They alter perspectives for both the medical and legal professions, as physicians become better at spotting underlying threats to health, and lawyers engage in what he called "preventive law".
Turning from machine imagery toward fluid vital forms, Mr. Stayton writes in the catalog, was "at least in part a response to the unsettling ambivalence and anxieties of the new age," when the exuberance of prosperity could be upset at any moment by vague, underlying threats.
In general, any security protocol design methodology should be an iterative process addressing in each step critical contexts of increasing complexity as result of the considered protocol goals and the underlying threats.
But I do think these underlying threats to human existence permeate through culture and affect how we, as humans, lay claim to our lives, our identities, and desire to imprint something of ourselves on the walls and pages of communication networks.
Despite the many potential positive health and social benefits for child athletes in a healthy sporting environment, sport participation may have inherent underlying threats or dangers in an unhealthy sport culture where abuse and harassment occur.
As you make clear, extremists like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, are just part of the problem; federal policies that empower these men represent the underlying threat to immigrant communities.
offers an example: standard conservation assessments employ survey methods that focus on ecological variables, but do not usually address the socio-cultural factors that underlie threats.
All the sources I have spoken to say that while "the blowback issue" - the threat of UK jihadists returning to carry out attacks - has not gone away, recent events in Iraq have not so far affected the underlying terror threat to Britain.
This work brings into focus important mechanisms underlying the threats of domestic dogs to endangered prey.
But there's more to it than that, and he traces it back to the personality traits he inherited from his father: "A misogyny grown from the fear of all the dangerous, beautiful, strong women in our lives crossed with the carrying of an underlying physical threat, a psychological bullying that is meant to frighten and communicate that the dark thing in you is barely restrained.
