genuine threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgenuineandthreat
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genuine
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn/us/ˈdʒen.ju.ɪn/
If something is genuine, it is real and exactly what it appears ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk/θret/us/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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(Definition ofgenuineandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We face agenuinethreat.
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They are agenuinethreat.
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That posture worked, so long as they represented nogenuinethreatto the survival and status of traditional landlords.
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To do so, we must engage ingenuinethreatassessment.
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There is also agenuinethreatto public order.
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Therefore, there is agenuinethreatto our children.
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This is agenuinethreatto the whole quality of life in our cities.
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I believe that there is agenuinethreatto academic freedom in these matters.
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We are talking of agenuinethreatto the way of life of a community.
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So a first priority of burden-sharing must begenuinethreatassessment.
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That is agenuinethreatwhich must not be dismissed lightly.
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I think that there is also probably agenuinethreatto the six-mile limit in terms of open access.
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Many people take the receipt of such a letter extremely seriously; they would consider it agenuinethreat.
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Firms that have previously received the temporary employment subsidy will not be precluded from support under the scheme if agenuinethreatof redundancy arises.
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There is agenuinethreatthat, in total, the sums that find their way through to good causes would be smaller.
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It is wrong that the people who serve on those boats and those who repair them should be put at risk when there is nogenuinethreat.
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That is agenuinethreat, not a mirage in the desert, and all my life it has dominated the political and geopolitical balance of the world.
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They have money, believe there is agenuinethreatagainst their lives, or are a government official.
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They seem to have been regarded by the government of the time as agenuinethreatto social order.
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Those restrictions must be applied on the basis of the personal circumstances of those concerned and on the judgment that those concerned represent agenuinethreatto public order.
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The latter article argued that the communists posed agenuinethreatand that the current government was incapable of dealing with it.
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