Threat in sentence

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They call climate change a threat multiplier that could harm stability and security, while governments around the world are evaluating how to respond.

This reaction expands into adulthood and becomes sort of a full-blown disgust response, no longer just about whether or not we're about to be poisoned, but whenever there's a threat of physical contamination from some source.

It removes the need for a hair trigger for retaliation to make your deterrent threat credible.

Likewise, we use "force" to indicate not only physical force, as in, "Rose forced the door to open," but also interpersonal force, as in, "Rose forced Sadie to go," not necessarily by manhandling her, but by issuing a threat.

If it was the case, we wouldn't have between 200 and 300 million cases of malaria every year, and we wouldn't have a million and a half deaths from malaria, and we wouldn't have a disease that was relatively unknown 50 years ago now suddenly turned into the largest mosquito-borne virus threat that we have, and that's called dengue fever.

Nothing pulls people together like a common threat or a common attack, especially an attack from a foreign enemy, unless of course that threat hits on our polarized psychology, in which case, as I said before, it can actually pull us apart.

Sometimes a single threat can polarize us, as we saw.

But what if the situation we face is not a single threat but is actually more like this, where there's just so much stuff coming in, it's just, "Start shooting, come on, everybody, we've got to just work together, just start shooting."

As before, we've got a problem, we've got to start working on this, we've got to do something, and what's wrong with you people that you don't see my threat?

The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts.

You put it in your search engine, and you create the drug to treat the threat.

But terrorists aren't the only threat we face.

There was an age in the Age of Empires when you needed those people who can survive under threat.

We need to shift that balance back from threat to pleasure.

That feels like a pretty real threat.

The threat to worry about isn't strangers.

The threat to worry about is whether or not we're getting our fair share of strangeness.

But the middle class is clearly under huge threat right now.

It's a threat for democracy and society.

This is not meant to be a threat.

I remember, for example, sitting up one night on guard outside my parents' room to protect them from what I thought was a genuine threat from the voices.

I mean global warming certainly is a massive threat to mankind and we are putting a lot of time and energy into, A, trying to come up with alternative fuels and, B, you know, we just launched this prize, which is really a prize in case we don't get an answer on alternative fuels, in case we don't actually manage to get the carbon emissions cut down quickly, and in case we go through the tipping point.

Without Iraq balancing Iran, Iran could now become a threat, some in Israel argued.

Now, they kill a lot of people too, but when they kill them, they provide very careful narratives and descriptions for why they did them, through newspaper insertions, YouTube videos, and billboards that explain that the people who were killed were killed because they represented a threat not to us, as an organization, of course, but to you, as citizens.

Part of it might be, and there are terrorists, but are we really thinking about terrorists as such an existential threat that we are willing to do anything at all to fight them?

Do we really think terrorism is such an existential threat, we are ready to do anything at all?

But unfortunately, these animals are under constant threat from poachers who hunt and kill them for their body parts.

This is because honor killings are a real threat for untold numbers of women in the Arab region.

The first was that, after years of keeping inflation under control, central banks were trusted to take the money-printing away if inflation became a threat.

Secondly, inflation simply never became a threat.

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