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How to use the word Threat in a Sentence? Page #9

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Economically, because of sanctions that will be slammed on Russia immediately. Militarily, because we are not the country that will give up. This is our land, we will be defending it, you see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

Dmytro Kuleba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think what we are now faced with is a new normal in European security. We see Russia being willing to contest fundamental values for our security by the use of force and also by the threat of use of force, we have reinforced and implemented the biggest reinforcement of collective defense since the end of the Cold War, with battlegroups in the Baltic region, in Poland, with increased defense spending every year since 2014 and with a higher readiness of the NATO forces.

Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over the past few days, the US has hyped up the threat of war and created tension, which has severely impacted economic and social stability and people's lives in Ukraine and added obstacles to the dialogue and negotiation of relevant parties, such persistent inciting and spreading of false information by some people in the United States and the West have only added more turbulence and uncertainty to the world full of challenges, and intensified mistrust and division.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These illegal blockades are being heavily supported by individuals in the United States and from elsewhere around the world, we see that roughly half of the funding that is flowing to the barricaders here is coming from United States. The goal of all measures, including financial measures in the Emergencies Act, is to deal with the current threat only, and to get the situation fully under control.

Justin Trudeau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Cybercrime is the number one threat facing every business today.

Satya Nadella

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's been incredibly frustrating and frankly angering that as we see gun sales skyrocket, as we see gun homicides skyrocket, as we see a dramatic increase in the threat of political violence in this country and mass shootings, that this President has yet to issue a truly comprehensive plan of action.

Igor Volsky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During the Cold War, most people knew about the Soviet threat, and we did not need to provide evidence to show that was an issue.

State Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

(Bale) had his opportunity and he made the most of it. He could have scored, he gave us a threat up front, he did all we asked of him.

Carlo Ancelotti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any American in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible, and in any event in the next 24 to 48 hours, we obviously can not predict the future, we don't know exactly what is going to happen. But the risk is now high enough and the threat is now immediate enough that this is what prudence demands.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We obviously can not predict the future, we don't know exactly what is going to happen. But the risk is now high enough and the threat is now immediate enough that this is what prudence demands.

Jake Sullivan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have no information of a specific, credible threat against the Super Bowl, what this is all about is planning and preparation to prevent any incident from occurring.

Alejandro Mayorkas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No family, no block, no community in the City of Chicago should have to endure the looming threat of guns and gangs, this is a tragedy, there are too many incidents just like this. We’re losing too many young people, and it’s really saddening.

Police Superintendent David Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And we are witnessing not a threat, but we are witnessing an absolute invasion that is taking place right now.

Matt Rosendale

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This does not appear to be a random act of violence, and there is no threat to the public.

Kate Loveland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Declaring a state of emergency reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations and highlights the need for support from other jurisdictions and levels of government.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The still shot shows the image of the firearm in the subject’s hands, at the best possible moment when the lighting was fully on him. That’s the moment when the officer had to make a split-second decision to assess the circumstances and to determine whether he felt like there was an articulable threat, that the threat was of imminent harm, great bodily harm or death, and that he needed to take action right then to protect himself and his partners.

Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is absolutely serious, we are distracted now by Russia, but China is the real threat.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've already heard a direct threat from the Beijing organizing committee threatening' certain punishments' for those who engage in political speech that violates the spirit of the Olympic Committee, as the Chinese official put it, and they have not walked back those comments. Those threats stand, but the IOC rules do not prohibit athletes from speaking freely to the press.

Bennett Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are facing an existential threat as a downtown business. We are forced to begin a move to a safer location outside of Portland. The city’s riches will be diminished with the loss of these good citizens. I do n’t blame the campers. There are few other options for housing, there is a plague of meth and opiates and a world that offers them no hope and little assistance. In my view, where the blame clearly lies is with the City of Portland. Please continue to follow through on funded initiatives. Fulfill the many promises made to the citizens. And give these human beings back their dignity.

Dar Crammond

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The biggest threat to superintendency and public schools is what is happening with the radicalization of school boards.

Steve McCammon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The deployment of Russian troops within our own territory has frequently occurred on varying scales before and has not caused any hysterics whatsoever, the discussions about a threat of war is provocative in it of itself.

Vasily Nebenzya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At his best, Christian has the ability to dictate games of football, he can find the right passes and is a goal threat. He also has very, very good set piece delivery, both from corners and direct free kicks.

Thomas Frank

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The ballistic missile launch and the ones before it are a threat to our country, the region and the international community, this series of launches violate U.N. resolutions and we strongly protest this action by North Korea.

Hirokazu Matsuno

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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