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Example sentences for: threat

How can you use “threat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But the threat of Lutherans, Calvinists, and other heretics shifted the emphasis to repression, culminating in the Counter-Reformation formally proclaimed in 1563.
It is a grotesque relic of a defused threat, and we can feel good knowing that we have triumphed over its implications.
However, even leaving aside what are, in all three of those examples, to me very valid questions of interpretation (I think--I haven't seen Dogma ), given that the resources of political activism on the behalf of special interests are necessarily limited, I would prefer to put my dollar and my anxiety down on the side of protecting actual, real live human beings suffering actual, real live oppression, or the threat thereof.
Little effort was made to consider an integrated policy toward terrorism, which might range from identifying the threat to addressing vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure; and the piecemeal approach in the Congress contributed to the problems of the executive branch in formulating such a policy.
They were quite powerful, and in order to nullify any threat they might pose to the gods, Zeus cut them in two.