Sentence examples for visible threat from inspiring English sources

The most visible threat to a bridge is usually corrosion.

The only immediately visible threat was the presence of a man swinging lethargically in a distant hammock.

(It's the boredom, stupid!) A plainclothes Secret Service agent sat last week guarding the empty driveway of Mr. Clinton's empty home from no visible threat.

While the job of cleaning the water, air and land continues, the world must begin tackling the less visible threat of global warming, an issue largely unknown 30 years ago.

But a gun's usefulness can reside also in its power as a visible threat, what Teresa Garvey, an attorney adviser for Aequitas, a resource for domestic-violence prosecutors, calls an "environment of intimidation".

A classic example occurs in the encounter with the young Prince Edward where the line "So wise so young, they say, do ne'er live long" is delivered to the boy's face as a visible threat.

But it is the war's visible threats, rather than mortality's veiled ones, that are Stein's subject and the object of her terror.

But the only visible threats to his pre-eminence at the moment are his age (nearly 76) and mortality.The other source of Mao's present strength is his firm conviction that his revolution is set on a victorious path.

HIGHLY visible threats to life and limb, such as terrorism, health scares and calamities, are especially likely to provoke wild misjudgments about the odds of a peril, and about its likely consequence.

From the junior officer level up through the senior ranks, these officers have outlined obstacles that they say frustrate the rebuilding just as much as the roadside bombs and terrorist attacks that are the more visible threats.

This is distinct from the city's fire department, which offers a web page with nearly live updates on dispatches, because citizens tend to steer clear of conflagrations but not of less visible threats, such as when suspected perpetrators lurk in the area.