Threat.

But how much of this American unease is a justifiable response to a genuine threat?

"The only threat the UWSA is not prepared to face is major airstrikes by the Burma Army, " Soe Than was quoted in the cable.

As someone who used to be a hacker myself, I can say that in the age of the web, no one is truly safe from the cyber threat.

Well, we seem to have dodged the deadly pandemic this year that most of us feared, but this threat could reappear at any time.

Instead, he said, a more flexible defence would be introduced, allowing for a more effective response to any threat from Iranian missiles.

Sanders was worried. The guy definitely seemed scary. He gave him a 7 or 8 out of 10 on the threat level assessment.

The company's threat to sack anyone who went on strike was just (a) bluff. 6. You two are a perfect match.

With the threat of pandemic influenza looming, there has never been a greater need for health leadership, and health partnership.

There's a little bit of violence here and there, but nothing that's a threat to the general situation.

Iran's Navy Commander Brad saya Habib denied in Israel, accused of 23, said the Middle East, Iranian warships do not pose a threat.

He marked Andrea Pirlo out of the Milan game and was a constant threat against Liverpool, scored a wonderful winner of course.

But he said the spread of the organization's ideology ensured a continuing threat.

It would not be a threat to Mr Osborne's main fiscal target or to the bond markets' good faith.

The enemy threat was omnipresent, and this was a chance to truly lead from the front.

It had become obvious from quite early in the Campaign that the Labour Party did not pose a serious threat to the Tories.

Hareton did not appear to feel this threat; so the tears sprang into her eyes with indignation.

Two years on, it is clear that, when the international community works together to meet a shared threat, progress is possible.

But he said the environmental threat facing the globe today is just as serious.

Harry Truman used the same communist threat to get his way with a miserly Congress.

FOR a moment it seemed as though a mortal threat to businesses in Zimbabwe had been lifted. Now the usual lack of clarity has been restored.

James, who said the Cavaliers are still one of the top teams in the league, expects to be even more of an offensive threat this fall.

The question is how much this poses a threat to global economic growth.

"There was no bomb threat or hijacking, " he said.

Basically, your brain will tell you whether an item is a threat even before you know you saw it.

He also warned that the global nature of the downturn was a threat because exports would be hit.

As Hans-Werner Sinn of the CESifo institute in Munich notes, this threat seems to be closer.

Women can tell from other women's voices how much of a threat they pose to their relationships, anthropologists have claimed.

During the Lisbon treaty referendum the European Commission made clear that this was not and would not be under threat.

But he seems to have decided that conservative orthodoxies have become a vastly bigger threat to good economic policy than liberal ones.

changes that will be beneficial no matter how much of a threat global warming turns out to be.

International laws of self-defence would allow a nation to respond to remove the threat posed by an imminent or unfolding attack, he said.

At present, vehicle bomb has become the main means of the terror explosion. It has become a serious threat against the important buildings.

'Even as they objectively recognize the threat of a bubble, they just don't seem to care. '

I agree that saturated fats are dangerous, but a government should be able to tackle more than one threat at a time.

Buffet dismissed fears that the growing economies of India and China present any sort of threat to the United States.

Gangsters forced the city's police chief to resign, by carrying out a threat to murder one of his officers every two days if he did not.

The statement said the recent 'excessive volatility' of the yen was a threat to the global economy.

The bottom line of all this is, you can't just put up a wall around something and expect it to protect it against every possible threat.

Up to the end of the war, the allies had not introduce any effective means to counter the threat.

Mancini also issued a thinly-veiled threat to his employers that the arrival of any new faces would prompt his immediate departure.

Here, conducting an assessment of the threat of its system using markov latent effects (MLE) modeling from the point of system security.

He was convinced that the threat of general war was one of the chief fears of the Soviet Union.

The problem, as he saw it, was that workers could use the threat of industrial unrest to "extort" money from their bosses.

The threat of 15 damage from a simple shift should make your opponent think twice before trying to shuffle around the Captain.

I made that up, in the same way that alarmists have made up the threat levels.

The recovery now under way will be feeble: deflation will remain a bigger threat than inflation for at least a year.

MCs has a strong role in inducing liver tumor, and its chemical property was stable, so it had a threat to people's health.

He said her behaviour and acceptance of him proves the boars do not need to be feared because they are not a threat to well-meaning people.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami.

Without withdrawing his hand, he mouthed a threat at Teacher Fei, who lifted his arms as if surrendering and stood up to leave.

We call it a 'MYI invasion' and that's going to be the threat as we transition to an ice-free summertime Arctic.

After years of enduring a worsening terrorist threat, many Pakistanis seem inured to all this.

'China has no reason to view this exercise, or this series of exercises, as a threat to its security, ' Mr. Whitman said.

These searches. . . do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States.

One of your basic objectives as a trader is to perceive the opportunities available, not the threat of pain.

And they react to these inner feelings just as any animal reacts to any hurt or threat: by readiness to fight or to flee.

``Free trade is always being attacked, '' Irwin said. ``The question is, how high is the threat level? ''

"Israel felt that this reactor posed such an existential threat that a different approach was required, " he said.

Changing the label and culling symbolic perks would not make a firm less of a threat if it failed.

However, Dudley said, the current "perfect vision" is still under the threat of hurricane season, there may not be realized.

But the deflationary threat is real and is beginning to be recognised even in Germany.

The only possible threat to this regime was a small group of Communist-led guerrillas whom eight years before he had all but liquidated.

The threat comes within days of Pyongyang saying it had begun reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant.

Republicans run Arizona and are now in a state of hysteria, competing with one another to deal most toughly with the threat.

In response to a threat from the front, the fly moves its middle legs forward, leans back and raises its back legs for a backward takeoff.

I had a death threat a year and a half ago and I had a death threat just before the release of my movie.

But Republicans and Democrats differ sharply as to which mighty institutions pose the greatest threat to the little guy.

The probe did not focus on whether the dishwasher fungi had been any threat to health.

Yeltsin bombed his way out of the threat of civil war and managed to hang on to power, but Russia was left hobbled.

"Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat, " he said.

Even the White House, Pentagon and Justice Department couldn't seem to agree on what kind of threat Padilla posed.

He said the threat of hostile takeovers would keep South Korean companies alert to the constant need to become more efficient.

Rooney's threat came always from counter-attacks, getting the ball early around the halfway line, turning and attacking Chelsea's defence.

This new Codex agreement now means that this threat has gone and the consumer right to be informed has been secured.

You could make a fairly tight argument to say that it is the single greatest health threat that has ever faced the human species.

Bin Laden was a greater threat to Pakistan than to America in recent years, yet Pakistanis behave as if they regret his death.

All the jubilation that follows can sound like an attempt to forget whatever existential threat the Scherzo poses.

"So what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them. "

And yet, all this progress is under threat. From economic crisis. Rising joblessness and inequality. Climate change.

We have no ambition in Iraq, except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own people.

NATO took the threat seriously enough to limit military exercises after volcanic glass built up in fighter engines.

His lack of a good education has posed a threat to his advancement even after years of trying hard.

She said the Secretary-General's ability to mobilize resources "is extremely vital when the world is under threat of an imminent pandemic. "

'Our development is peaceful and poses no threat to any other country, ' said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday.

Sweden is one of the few rich European countries for which globalisation has been a benefit, not a threat.

BBC Middle East business reporter Ben Thompson said the threat by the UAE was likely an attempt to wring concessions out of RIM.

The quality of their care cannot be guaranteed and the role of nursing is often under threat.

Many snake charmers have continued to work clandestinely since the ban, despite the threat of up to three years in jail.

It is comforting, slightly, that the regime is still at least a few years away from posing an immediate threat.

Security officers at railroad companies began to ward off rail fans, fearing that they might be a terrorism threat.

NATO took the threat seriously enough to limit military exercises after volcanic glass built up in fighter engines.

His lack of a good education has posed a threat to his advancement even after years of trying hard.

She said the Secretary-General's ability to mobilize resources "is extremely vital when the world is under threat of an imminent pandemic. "

President Barack Obama has said the biggest threat to US security is the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The goal, of course, would not be to encourage proliferation, but to use the threat of proliferation to help roll back the DPRK's program.

'Our development is peaceful and poses no threat to any other country, ' said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday.

Sweden is one of the few rich European countries for which globalisation has been a benefit, not a threat.

BBC Middle East business reporter Ben Thompson said the threat by the UAE was likely an attempt to wring concessions out of RIM.

The quality of their care cannot be guaranteed and the role of nursing is often under threat.

Many snake charmers have continued to work clandestinely since the ban, despite the threat of up to three years in jail.

BBC Middle East business reporter Ben Thompson said the threat by the UAE was likely an attempt to wring concessions out of RIM.

The quality of their care cannot be guaranteed and the role of nursing is often under threat.

Many snake charmers have continued to work clandestinely since the ban, despite the threat of up to three years in jail.

It is comforting, slightly, that the regime is still at least a few years away from posing an immediate threat.

Security officers at railroad companies began to ward off rail fans, fearing that they might be a terrorism threat.

She warned Putnam that she was incapable of fidelity, and she apparently made good on her threat.

'The American people need to understand the threat that they face and their responsibility to remain vigilant, ' he said.

In the last couple of years, when deflation was perceived by many to be a greater threat than inflation, the index was of little value.

Yes, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a threat, as this week's news of an outbreak among premature infants in London reminds us.

The threat of a deflation of the kind that plagued Japan in the 1990s enhances the need for a clearly articulated strategy.

In the last couple of years, when deflation was perceived by many to be a greater threat than inflation, the index was of little value.

Yes, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a threat, as this week's news of an outbreak among premature infants in London reminds us.

The threat of a deflation of the kind that plagued Japan in the 1990s enhances the need for a clearly articulated strategy.

That seems to me to define the wisdom of the new politics that we all need to embrace in the age of the mega threat.

He said the possibility of terrorists getting hold of nuclear material to make a crude weapon remains the greatest threat to world security.

Thus there was little being done to remove the threat to human health and the environment, or to provide remediation, from these sites.

I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat.

Do you know any child who willingly tells his sister "I'm sorry" without a nudge and perhaps a threat from his parents?

This vacuum, which had been temporarily filled by the U. N. , now poses the threat of chaos.

The threat of climate change was no more worrying than any other.

I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat.

Do you know any child who willingly tells his sister "I'm sorry" without a nudge and perhaps a threat from his parents?

This vacuum, which had been temporarily filled by the U. N. , now poses the threat of chaos.

The threat of climate change was no more worrying than any other.

Cartoon about a family under great threat, an evil force from space to another planet, they attempt to go up for people to entertainment.

There was no menace in her tone, no threat nor promise of danger; merely a relaxed, even concerned, conscience.

At a meeting with business leaders on Monday Yiin said the signing of a CECA with China did not represent a threat to Taiwan's sovereignty.

At least one senior minister close to Mr Bouteflika is said to be under threat too.

He took the fight against infectious diseases, and particularly the threat of pandemic influenza to a new level.

And indeed, our own internal assessment was very clear that Iraq's WMD did not pose a threat to its neighbors, let alone to us.

He took the fight against infectious diseases, and particularly the threat of pandemic influenza to a new level.

And indeed, our own internal assessment was very clear that Iraq's WMD did not pose a threat to its neighbors, let alone to us.

He said, "There will be a military response against the threat imposed by the United States militarily. "

And when Mr. Greenspan began to hear of a housing bubble, he dismissed the threat.

Mr Medvedev claimed that no Russian threat against Ukraine exists, as if he were unaware of his prime minister's statements.

China, a close ally of Pyongyang, said the exercises - initially planned for the Yellow Sea - were a threat to regional security.

But until this week we could at least pretend that China wasn't one of those countries that was a threat.

China has in the past engaged in invasions and wars in the region, and its presence is still felt to be something of a strategic threat.

If only, the argument goes, the world had not made itself dependent on a single failed gene, wheat would not be under threat.

'It creates a bigger threat, ' he said. 'Bank robbers go where the money is. Banks recognize that.

'It creates a bigger threat, ' he said. 'Bank robbers go where the money is. Banks recognize that.

He's a ranged threat, shooting up to twice per round with his magic composite longbow, and just as dangerous in melee.

If he threatened to run away she retorted by a threat to kill him. And she said it as if she meant it.

The storm sweeps away the threat, until the next time it reappears in the sky or up the road.

Instead, the main threat to the rally seems likely to be disappointing growth, at least in the developed world.

He made that threat during his State of the Union address and again as recently as a few days ago.

Financing and refinancing of the re-opening, the A-share market, the threat is no less than any of a blockade.

Few see much benefit in trying to overthrow the party: that, they fear, could cause chaos and an even bigger threat to wealth.

However, by the time the shelter had been finished, the civil war was over and the Empire was no longer a threat.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that low interest rates across the globe are a threat to world financial stability.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that low interest rates across the globe are a threat to world financial stability.

As we have already begun to see, the mere threat of a disruption to the world's oil supply has caused the price of crude oil to jump.

Inflation might be a possibility sometime down the line, but the front-and-center threat to the economy is deflation.

But the germ appears to be spreading, and investigators are unsure how much of a threat it poses.

Nobody was planning an assault of any kind, nor was anyone powerful enough to pose a threat with enough strength to justify such a fortress.

No doubt understanding that his regime and his own survival are under constant threat, Kim has been quite unwilling to disarm.

The rapid recovery in emerging markets, now a year old, is beginning to create a threat of inflation from China to Argentina.

Proliferation to non-state actors is now as much of a threat as the spread of nuclear weapons among states.

Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long-term potential of our species.

And, I have no doubt that, were we to withdraw tomorrow, then that threat would be returned, and it would increase.

And, I have no doubt that, were we to withdraw tomorrow, then that threat would be returned, and it would increase.

At a time of uncertainty and threat, people had more confidence in the president they knew than in the candidate who seemed unproven.

All of NATO understands that al-Qaida is a threat to all of us and that this collective security effort must achieve its goals.

Aircraft carriers and their accompanying ships are unable to defend themselves against such a threat.

It is all a reminder that the biggest threat to a healthy economy is not the socialists of campaign lore. It's C. E. O. 's.

The Hoffa camp seem to see Ms Pope, whose CB radio handle was "Troublemaker" , as a threat.

Taiwan's past governments have reacted to this threat by trying to limit the island's economic dependence on the mainland.

He said: "If economic sanctions do not achieve their goals, they should issue a credible threat of force. "

Ahead of the visit, Gates said he did not see China as a military threat to the United States.

Pursuing peaceful development and a national defense policy which is defensive in nature, China poses no threat to any other countries.

Pursuing peaceful development and a national defense policy which is defensive in nature, China poses no threat to any other countries.

Online advertising will pay for everything. As if click fraud is any kind of a threat.

The word "sin" should be changed to "lack of love, " because "sin" is a man-made word with threat connotations which he made up himself.

For years it had used the threat of its veto to keep North Korean adventurism off the Security Council's agenda.

But inflation does not seem to be a threat with the current softness in the American housing market.

This espionage is not only an enormous threat, but it also suggests that serious acts of cyber warfare would be easy to carry out.

So much of a typical American's wealth is tied up in bricks that the threat of house- price deflation stokes panic .

The company insisted it had taken this long for it to realise the seriousness of the threat.

The country's leaders, they say, are beginning to appreciate how much of a threat climate change poses to China itself.

The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the threat was credible and involved al-Qaeda, but that it was unconfirmed.

The country's leaders, they say, are beginning to appreciate how much of a threat climate change poses to China itself.

The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the threat was credible and involved al-Qaeda, but that it was unconfirmed.

He said Tehran was not going to take "any unreasonable" action, but was "ready to counter any threat" .

U. S. companies have been banned from trading with Iran since 1995, when President Bill Clinton declared it a threat to national security.

It was designed to be a slap to the face of Americans. Everyone knows that China is the only real threat we have to world domination.

He said the most urgent threat that Barack Obama and other presidents after him will have to deal with is another attack.

White House officials said that the president had been briefed on the threat on Thursday morning and updated throughout the day.

The statement certainly makes good on an earlier threat to respond to any new UN sanctions with a "super-hardline" response.

The threat has by no means receded, and we would be very unwise to let down our guard, or slacken our preparedness measures.

Event of a real physical threat to children and small bodies Li Bo, the general can only yield to the bad guys.

Event of a real physical threat to children and small bodies Li Bo, the general can only yield to the bad guys.

And, on the whole, the threat of religious extremism with which strong men used to justify repression has not materialised.

'Do you know, Newman, that sounded to me very like a threat, ' I said as we climbed the hill homewards .

I do not believe China is a military threat to the U. S. or to anyone now or at any time in the near future.

"It has the ability, I believe, working within the alliance, to beat any North Korean threat, " he said.

Estimating how big the output gap is, and how much of a deflationary threat it still poses, is not easy.

"Global imbalances" have been seen as a threat for so long that it's tempting to conclude that the world economy is, in fact, in harmony.

Too arrogant to think of him as a threat and deliberately ignorant of his designs, we supported him.

General Petraeus said the threat from Sunni militants of al-Qaida in Iraq has been significantly reduced, but the group is still lethal.

The study did not focus on whether the fungi had been a threat to human health.

China's development will not pose threat to any other country, but will only benefit regional and world peace and prosperity.

I'm pretty sure that she doesn't see me as a sexual threat, but she thinks of me as an emotional rival and I suppose she's right.

AP off of a giant balloon out of control, and a serious threat to flight safety in the air the other aircraft.

While Herzog denies wielding a gun at the time he made the threat, he has said he did have a gun on set.

If so, it risks losing its capitalistic crown, not as a result of any external threat, but through its own fault.

Retaliation, or even the threat, would carry more legitimacy if it were part of a multilateral agreement and done on a world stage.

On the Korean peninsula, 'any aggression is a threat to the interests of every country in the region, ' she said.

The losses of wildlife and habitat are a threat to being able to live sustainably within the enviroment in the future, she said.

I knew I was no threat, and just politely contradicted him and said I'd give the Wall a shot, anyhow.

When tourism was more limited, fishing by settlers from the mainland was the main threat.

However, in the case of personal performance contracts, it may also be ensured through the threat of proceedings for contempt of court.

But Mr Edano said the radiation levels outside the plant , operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), did not pose a major health threat .

Then he sends him on a suicide mission to find out who or what is at the bottom of the Mine Valley threat.

Somehow I seemed to have chanced across a second ailment with a forbidding reputation that carried no immediate threat to my well-being.

"He is still a threat because he is an exceptional talent, " said the manager. [He is a] very intelligent talent as well.

No, Mr Rajapaksa is under threat because Mr Fonseka, by his very presence, trumps his best card, that of the conquering hero.

Faced with the threat of a full- scale military invasion, the general has no choice but to cooperate.

Homelessness is often seen as a threat to migration and tourism.

It surpasses the performance of any current projected threat submarine, thus ensuring U. S. undersea dominance well into the next century.

But he said the planned system will allow expanded capability if that threat increases.

Two years ago, we met together at a time of great uncertainty, as we faced the threat of a global influenza pandemic.

Once the enemy radar is detected, the system can automatically compare the signal with its database and prioritise the threat of the target.

For now, Microsoft seems to be staring down the Google threat, especially with large business customers.

"There are a couple of odd stories, " he said, "but I don't think they're any threat at all. "

Free speech was one of the semi-bright lights in Iraq, though it has come under more threat as time passes.

It said the president was assured that the device did not pose a threat to the public.

The rapid ascent of Facebook has no company more worried than Google, which sees the social networking giant as a threat on multiple fronts.

Either the squirrel thought the bat was a threat to it, or to its young if they were around, or to a food source.

The source was not affiliated with the White Dragon Society but, they made it clear they that this threat was to be taken "very seriously. "

Nonetheless, the threat of the enemy provoked numerous changes on Coruscant in the name of increased security.

We evaded the Soviet proposal of banning nuclear weapons in war and substituted for it a clause abjuring the threat of force in peacetime.

It could become a major threat to world food security, as it has a strong impact on food production, access and distribution.

The company's threat to sack anyone who went on strike was just (a) bluff.

They eventually found a way through when they offered more of a varied attacking threat, and the impact of substitutes was a key factor.

She said the deteriorating situation poses what she called a "mortal threat" to the United States and the world.

Mr. Sarkozy's spokesman later appeared to backtrack somewhat, saying 'there is no threat' to leave the summit.

How bad has political correctness become that people are up-in-arms about a schoolyard slur but totally okay with a threat of violence?

It would give the president the emergency power to shut down or seize parts of the nation's Internet in the event of a major threat.

You enter it against your freedom of choice, and you cannot get out of it without punishment or the threat of punishment.

President Obama said the U. S. government must be able to act decisively when information surfaces about a potential threat.

Ferguson had not been joking when he said he regarded Arsenal as a threat.

"With unemployment relatively high, there's no wage pressure, and until we see that, there's not a huge threat of inflation, " he said.

Pretending to keep a military threat on the table while trying to talk or bribe Iran out of going nuclear is not a bad policy.

As a result, Islamic radicalism now seems to be becoming an increasingly serious threat to India just as it is in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He is not a reed shaken by the wind and his belief will not be shaken by threat.

It appeared that -- after less than two months as president -- Madison had been able to remove the threat of war.

The body's response to any threat is the same: fight or flight, as the stress hormone cortisol rushes our systems.

With the threat of contracts being torn up in bankruptcy, the United Auto Workers might accept scaled-back staffing and benefits.

Though her voice was rarely heard during the past 14 years of her house arrest, she's still the most feared political threat to the regime.

The SNB said the massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc posed an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carried the risk of deflation.