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Sentence count:268+30Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: menacescourgeterrorSimilar words: threatenthreadthreethresholdwith regard towith respect togreatcreateMeaning: [θret]  n. 1. something that is a source of danger 2. a warning that something unpleasant is imminent 3. declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another 4. a person who inspires fear or dread. 
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(241) The earth was alive with poisons, and surrounded by the threat of outer space.
(242) Police, who were alerted to the photographs by Zona, deny that such a threat was made.
(243) It wasn't so much the threat of Dennis breaking his nose that had changed his mind.
(244) Schools cancelled extracurricular activities, and many parents took their children out of classes after word of the bomb threat spread.
(245) It can also, in another sense, be regarded as taking advantage of the vulnerability of the recipient of the threat.
(246) But even the hidden threat down there was part of its beauty for him.
(247) Again, neither involvement nor perceptions of threat has any significant association with the attitudes measured by this factor.
(248) Positive emotions are a blessing to reason. Negative emotions are a threat to reason. Dr T.P.Chia 
(249) A revolution would be a threat to the nation's bourgeoisie.
(250) There was a threat of industrial action against Mercury's shareholders.
(251) Accordingly, on Oct. 22, Bush carried out his threat to veto the bill.
(252) Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that if parliament did not approve his version, he would take it to a referendum.
(253) The code threatened doctors with suspension if they performed abortions unless the pregnancy involved rape or threat to the woman's life.
(254) Although that crisis seemed serious then, compared with the present threat to the world banking system, it was small beer.
(255) The latest addition is International Blue Shield, aiming to provide rapid reaction teams when an unexpected threat emerges.
(256) More recently, the threat of Quebec's secession confronted the country with the very real possibility of political breakup.
(257) Faced with such an unprecedented threat, Church leaders sprang into action.
(258) In the absence of a direct threat to order the public opinion which had caused Loris-Melikov such anxiety appeared powerless.
(259) An eagle looking down from above implies a threat whereas a heron flying from A to B suggests a more peaceable purpose.
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(260) The decision takes immediate effect and will remove for many workers the threat of reprisal from aggrieved party officials.
(261) The threat follows frustration at the lack of success of voluntary agreements to curb abstractions from the rivers.
(262) The aggressor must be prepared to deliver on his threat, with more bombs and, if necessary, with all-out war.
(263) Such action forces potential offenders, under the threat of legal action, to bear all the costs associated with their production.
(264) Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.
(265) Himes imagines a world conditioned by anxiety over personal safety, where the greatest threat to that safety comes from within.
(266) Microsoft faces three main challenges: the rise of the Internet, slowing applications revenues and the threat of break-up.
(267) Nevertheless there is no denying that the threat of removal has radically altered the relationship between chairmen and committee members.
(268) Law and order, to take an important example, wins few votes except by the threat of tough actions and crackdowns.
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