Sentence examples for unlikely threat from inspiring English sources

With the benefit of hindsight it looks like the framers protected America against an unlikely threat.

If Martians were an unlikely threat, invading armies certainly were not.

It may lack the visceral fears aroused by the unlikely threat of a shark attack, but it is also far more lethal.

Smallpox seems an especially unlikely threat, and if an attack were launched with anthrax, the chance that it would affect an enormous number of people seems extremely small.

Nearly deaf and close to blind, a veteran Beijing protester who was sentenced to re-education through labor in her late 70s, Wang Xiuying, now in her 80s, seems an unlikely threat to China's secretive bond with North Korea.

Only time, and 20/20 hindsight, will prove whether the anticontagion strategies of Ms. Reich -- and countless other New Yorkers -- are wise precautions against a virulent menace or overreactions to an unlikely threat.

But the report ranked most germ agents as only possible or unlikely threats.

Community preservationists' concerns about the Disneyfication of Harlem (in particular, the not-unlikely threat of theme-restaurant-style renovations at period clubs like the Lenox Lounge) reached Mr. Reed through newspaper articles, he said.

Now, in 2008, Nader's presidential candidacy looms again as a potential--though unlikely threat to the election of a Democratic president if there is an unexpectedly close finish.

Though it is considered unlikely, the threat of a conventional war with North Korea is still an issue, too, officials said.

Whatever you may think of the efficacy of political fasts — Agrawal's demand for a complete moratorium on Ganges River dams seems unlikely — the threat of death has a way of separating the saints from the softies.