noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bomb threat (= when someone leaves a message saying there is a bomb somewhere )
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He delayed his flight home because of a bomb threat.
a death threat (= a threat to kill someone deliberately )
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The writer had received a number of death threats.
a health risk/hazard/threat (= something that could damage your health )
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The report looked at the health risks linked to eating excess sugar.
a potential danger/threat/risk
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Tired drivers are a potential danger to other road users.
a serious threat
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In the developed world, over-consumption is now a serious threat to health.
a suicide threat (= when someone says that they will kill themselves )
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Depression may sometimes lead to suicide threats.
credible threat/challenge/force etc
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Can Thompson make a credible challenge for the party leadership?
idle threats
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She was not a woman to make idle threats .
imminent danger/threat/death/disaster etc
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He was in imminent danger of dying.
implicit criticism/threat/assumption
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Her words contained an implicit threat.
pose a threat/danger/risk
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The chemical leak poses a threat to human health.
present a threat
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The disease presents a grave threat to the livestock industry.
the terrorist threat
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He admitted the increased terrorist threat was causing the security forces great concern.
under threat
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Two of our national parks are currently under threat from road schemes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Ashes without phoenix Whatever the president decides in June, the biggest threat to a slimmer space station will be Congress.
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The latter tWo were not viewed as big threats .
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Interbreeding with feral cats is probably the biggest threat to the wildcat.
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Indeed, earnings worries represent the biggest threat to the bull market.
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The biggest threat to standards remains the state of the economy.
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What may be the biggest threat for most farmers is the length of time standing water remains on their fields.
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The biggest threat to this cosy world comes from within.
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Far better to spend some money exploring this new medium than to ignore the biggest competitive threat since television.
constant
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The small village appears to be under constant threat of a landslide from the steep slopes immediately behind.
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They lived under constant threat of exposure and extermination at the hands of the Inquisition, which monitored Christians' piety.
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The immediate past and the constant threat was poverty.
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Individual feelings and complexities are repressed and there is a constant threat of mutiny among family members.
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He was impeccable in defence, and posed a constant threat to the Springboks' defensive wall.
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They governed during the Cold War, with the constant threat of nuclear war.
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Moscow did not falter under the onslaught and their counter-attacking potential was a constant threat .
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The strain of working long hours under the constant threat of robbery took its toll on the family.
great
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It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals.
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Newspapers are under the greatest peacetime threat to their freedom this century.
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Nevertheless, its greatest threat comes not only from coal imports but from the Labour party.
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Either way, it represents the greatest environmental threat the world now faces.
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He said spiralling public sector borrowing was the greatest threat to a sustained economic recovery.
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And this may be the greatest threat to our reserves of groundwater.
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Disturbance and high tides pose the greatest threats to the breeding birds.
immediate
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My tardiness prompted an immediate threat of a fine, but it never materialised.
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The contamination does not pose any immediate public health threat because none of the seed has been planted.
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The immediate threat to the West may be inflation; the spectre in the shadows is deflation.
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The most immediate threat is to bird life.
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Officials said there was no immediate threat of tsunami, a seismic ocean wave, which could be catastrophic to the area.
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Although the gunman had her pinned down he wasn't her immediate threat .
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The creation of States posed an immediate threat to the freedom of action of lesser rulers.
imminent
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Most local papers are sympathetic to heritage stories and will give space to them, particularly if there is an imminent threat .
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Detain any person who poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.
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We face no imminent threat , but we do have an enemy.
major
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Public sector pay and the unpredictability of pay settlements have always posed a major threat to public expenditure control.
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But workers here are accustomed to lifetime employment and see the provisions as a major threat to their job security.
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Leicester City are the major threat to Boro's hopes, especially after a last-kick injury-time matchwinner against Tranmere Rovers.
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Losing the existing business was his major threat .
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For this reason fears have been expressed that rising house prices pose a major threat to price stability generally.
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The Christmas holiday, which is eight months away, will be another major threat to the system, analysts said.
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Policy choices reflected what governments perceived as the major threats to the cohesion and survival of the state.
military
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He further stated that the military threat from the Soviet Union was at its lowest level since 1945.
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Pete Wilson successfully transformed the image of the industrious immigrant into a military threat .
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We do not face outside military threats .
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Second, it could prevent us from dealing expeditiously with emergencies such as natural disasters or military threats .
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It would make more sense economically to bring them home, and would not create any military threat .
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Each country regarded the other as a major military threat .
potential
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The raven was determined to fend off any potential threat and maintain its fiefdom of Edge Wood.
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And the success of actions in these circumstances would serve to reduce the potential long-term threat associated with the event.
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But he did okay in our program, handling its challenges and its many potential threats .
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They regarded it either as virtually impossible to implement, or as a potential threat to themselves at the elections.
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Many see computers as a potential threat to their livelihood.
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Recent newspaper reports have highlighted the potential threat to Britain when the Channel Tunnel links us with the Continent.
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The scientists warn of the potential threat to towns, beaches, golf courses, marinas and nature reserves along the coast.
real
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On form Cambridge look a real threat .
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Any team capable of getting this far had to be considered a real threat .
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They have no finishers or real scoring threat besides Owen Nolan, who has six goals.
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Small businesspeople in particular see the growing welfare population as a real and present threat to their future.
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Inflation running at 57 %, record unemployment, rampant corruption and real threats to democracy.
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Somehow they were more terrible than the real threat of the oozing wounds across his back.
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The real threat was more substantial, and imminent.
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But Chris's smile shows he clearly doesn't see any real threat to his golden 4,000 metres record.
serious
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Of these, logging poses by far the most serious threat .
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In this sense, the guns have a virtually religious import, and gun restrictions pose a serious psychological threat .
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Perhaps the argument that constituted the most serious threat to Copernicus was the so-called tower argument.
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His testimony presented a serious political threat to the incumbents on the city council and alienated Leroy from their affections.
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This search for a medical solution, then, may present a serious threat to civil liberties.
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The embryonic plot appeared to have been an amateurish operation which did not pose a serious threat to the government.
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Moreover, sunken waste containers could pose a serious threat over time as they begin to leak.
soviet
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In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat .
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The Alsops' war with Truman and Johnson centered on disagreements about the nature of the Soviet threat .
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Briefly At last we've found a convenient enemy to replace the Soviet threat .
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And, at bottom, what was the nature and extent of the Soviet threat and how should it be met?
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There is, after all, very little risk in defying the United States now that the Soviet threat is history.
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A Bevanite pamphlet appeared in July which argued - among other things - that the government was exaggerating the Soviet threat .
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In his view the Soviet threat was primarily political.
■ NOUN
bomb
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Pervez Musharraf, delayed his flight home because of a bomb threat .
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More than 50, 000 people carrying free foam-rubber tomahawks evacuated the stadium as if there had been a bomb threat .
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Many passengers switch flight after bomb threat .
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Last Thursday, campus officials received a bomb threat that was sent over the university e-mail system.
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Schools cancelled extracurricular activities, and many parents took their children out of classes after word of the bomb threat spread.
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Last Monday, a bomb threat against the county courthouse was delivered by telephone.
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It belongs to the man who called in the bomb threat 18 minutes before it detonated.
death
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Employees and shareholders have also received death threats and hate mail.
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Vince Tobin withdrew his candidacy for the job after both men got death threats from Ditka fanatics.
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He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people.
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Then came the death threats against Krueger himself, then the ambush of a convoy in which he was traveling.
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Teachers supporting their local community's campaigns have also been subject to death threats .
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J., was scrubbed because the promoter got death threats .
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They have found themselves the targets of death threats and kidnappings as a result.
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His family said he had been subjected to a campaign of racial harassment and death threats .
■ VERB
become
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We human beings ourselves have become a threat to our planet.
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This guy has become the offensive threat Lute and the other coaches have been talking about for the past three years.
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But I can see him becoming an instant threat in the Intercontinental division.
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Eventually, however, Skinner hopes to become an even bigger threat on the Cup circuit.
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This becomes a threat when the information in the marketplace is about humans, and private.
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It has become a pure threat signal rather than just the first stage of an attack.
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At this time localism had not yet become a threat .
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Current world trade agreements have become the foremost threats to democracy on earth.
carry
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There was no way to prevent White from carrying out his threat of f6.
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If Walden carries out his threat , the Tory government would fall, leading to a general election.
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There was nothing to stop the guy carrying out his threat to put the husband wise about Laura's past.
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Charles wondered if Alex Household had carried out his threat of feeding the wrong lines.
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Accordingly, on Oct. 22, Bush carried out his threat to veto the bill.
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Whether companies would carry out their threat to emigrate is debatable, with the huge costs that it would entail.
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Maybe she ought to have carried out her threat to go to the police.
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The question of whether the workers wish to co-operate becomes secondary as unwillingness carries with it the threat of losing their jobs.
counter
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Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat .
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They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians - largely Rome-based - to sit on the preparatory commissions.
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Edward's first move was to counter any possible threat to Aquitaine from the south and from the sea.
face
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Whalers face the threat of government reprisals should they start a commercial hunt which has been banned since 1985.
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Its cold-blooded use by cops facing no threat to themselves is plainly inhumane.
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We do not face outside military threats .
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Augustine says some of those patients may be facing collection agency threats .
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The 45 grammar schools among them face the additional threat of comprehensive reorganisation, or closure.
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Offenders will then face the threat of prosecution.
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If young men are estranged from the leadership of society, any society faces a threat from its young men.
issue
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Yet the Mugabe government repeatedly issues public death threats against its foes.
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The greater its dependence on others, the less its ability to issue credible threats or to mobilise for sustained hostilities.
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It was only by issuing rather unconvincing threats of his disapproval that Peggy could keep the girl in line.
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For one sweaty moment I was sure it would be Famlio, about to issue dire threats and promises.
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His favourite line of attack was to start talking about finding useful employment for Vincent, and to issue veiled threats .
meet
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Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia.
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The army sent to meet this threat was decimated at Adrianople: the road to Rome now lay open to the barbarians.
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Thus the notion of security requires reformulation in terms of satisfaction of human needs: weapons can not meet the threat of starvation.
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The Army wanted enough flexibility to be able to meet the Communist threat at any level.
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In order to meet these threats , a warrior caste developed under the command of a chieftain or king.
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The lower bird turned momentarily upside-down to meet the threat from the larger, more agile predator with its outstretched talons.
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The intervention represented by the Newsboys' House, which your generosity made possible, can not suffice to meet this threat .
perceive
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This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine.
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They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government, which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
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Events and situations that you perceive as threats or challenges are called stressors.
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And like all perceived threats , the dangers are inflated.
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The children targeted were a public eyesore, nuisance, or perceived threat .
pose
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He posed no threat to anyone.
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In this sense, the guns have a virtually religious import, and gun restrictions pose a serious psychological threat .
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However, if demand falls collective action poses less of a threat , and may even be beneficial.
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Some fear that substances used in the process remain in the beans and could pose a health threat .
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The embryonic plot appeared to have been an amateurish operation which did not pose a serious threat to the government.
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Secondly, the packaging plastics themselves can pose a medical threat .
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This still, however, posed a threat to Stanley influence.
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Disturbance and high tides pose the greatest threats to the breeding birds.
present
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The advance of the disease presents a grave threat to the livestock industry.
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Because the early runoff of snow, heavy rains later in the year presented less threat of floods.
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This search for a medical solution, then, may present a serious threat to civil liberties.
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The Rams also present an inside threat with 6-2 senior Teresa James.
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Despite the foundation of the small national Independent Labour Party in 1893, Labour did not appear to present an irresistible threat .
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Women first are presented as bloodsucking threats , then impaled with gusto.
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Surely he presented no physical threat to anyone, but it was possible that he had knowledge that was threatening.
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His testimony presented a serious political threat to the incumbents on the city council and alienated Leroy from their affections.
receive
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Employees and shareholders have also received death threats and hate mail.
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Since Waco, agents have received so many threats that the bureau has established a computer database to track and analyze them.
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He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people.
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Last Thursday, campus officials received a bomb threat that was sent over the university e-mail system.
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The judges have received death threats .
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Capistran says his family received phone threats from authorities.
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The judges have received death threats and been excoriated in the state press by Mugabe and ministers.
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And some people have even received threats .
reduce
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To reduce these security threats , various protection methods are used.
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And the success of actions in these circumstances would serve to reduce the potential long-term threat associated with the event.
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Meantime, the government is already spending less, helping to reduce the threat of inflation and lifting bonds.
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That would reduce the threat not just to tigers, but also to rhinos, bears, pangolins and many others.
represent
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If it is the postman, introduce them; let him know this man represents no threat .
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Indeed, earnings worries represent the biggest threat to the bull market.
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We are envious of others who have power because they represent a threat .
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Unfriendly takeovers represent a constant threat to underperforming companies with ill prepared strategic plans.
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Either way, it represents the greatest environmental threat the world now faces.
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The neighbor or newcomer of a different faith or way has always represented a threat or an opportunity to those already here.
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Similarly, mimicry of the expressions, stance and actions of a truly violent encounter can represent an intention or threat .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vain threat/promise etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After the floods, contaminated water was a serious threat to public health.
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Global warming poses a serious threat for the future.
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He denied making threats to kill her.
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He showed no sign of carrying out his threat of making them pay.
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I'm prepared to listen to him, but I'm not going to respond to threats.
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Immigrant families in the area have received threats from right-wing extremist groups.
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It's nonsense to say that the protesters pose any threat to democratic society.
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Once again the people of Sudan face the threat of famine.
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She claims she received anonymous death threats after she gave evidence in the trial.
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The threat of inflation and high interest rates led to a wage freeze.
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the threat of invasion
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The latest outbreak of the disease can be seen as the greatest threat to UK farmers yet.
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The nuclear threat , while not gone completely, is reduced.
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There is a threat that the violence will break out again.
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Tuberculosis is a common threat when people live in crowded conditions.
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Your threats don't scare me!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there has emerged another threat .
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Bad weather is a regular threat .
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But below the mirror images of arts and architecture lurks the threat of extinction - Venice is in Peril.
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The contamination does not pose any immediate public health threat because none of the seed has been planted.
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There's no guarantee that whoever sent it won't follow up those written threats with actual physical violence.
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These two, plus Jones, Botham and Bainbridge, will pose a strong threat to any attack.