Sentence examples for useful threat from inspiring English sources

It's also a useful threat, so long as China's currency plans remain vague.

"As political theater," he said, "the debt ceiling is not a useful threat, because politicians are basically threatening to shoot themselves, as they will rightly shoulder the blame for the serious global economic consequences of a default".

As political theater, the debt ceiling is not a useful threat, because politicians are basically threatening to shoot themselves as they will rightly shoulder the blame for the serious global economic consequences of a default.

"As political theater, the debt ceiling is not a useful threat, because politicians are basically threatening to shoot themselves as they will rightly shoulder the blame for the serious global economic consequences of a default," Vincent Reinhart, chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley, writes in DealBook in the Another View column.

The report found these centers do a terrible job funneling useful threat information from the local law enforcers to national intelligence agents.

That is, representatives of an active constituency of weekly worshippers of 8% of the British population, all of them votaries of ancient superstitions, all of them with grubby hands rummaging in the pot of public funds, and some of them doing it with the useful background threat of violence and civil unrest unless the rummaging pays off.

Multi-channel imaging which includes short-wave infrared (SWIR), mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) systems are useful for threat detection, tracking, thermal signature detection and terrain analysis.

But from a customer point of view, that veiled sense of power, however useful, carries the threat that it could be turned against us.

Again, Ike's example is useful; he used foreign threats to initiate economic projects at home.

I shall be visiting Jo Thompson's to look at a garden that hopes to inspire a greater awareness of the perils of introducing disease with foreign plant material – useful with the threat of ash decline on the horizon.

This would work as a threat useful in blackmailing.