greatest threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandthreat
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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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 ofgreatandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They also experienced thegreatestthreatto national identity.
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Thegreatestthreatcame from the third parties.
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In particular, it is bud-rot type diseases that pose thegreatestthreat.
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Conventional wisdom identifies the negative effects of neoliberal policies enacted and opportunities foreclosed as thegreatestthreatto indigenous peoples.
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In all environments, possibly thegreatestthreatto productivity is disease, especially those caused by fungal pathogens.
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Thegreatestthreatto pensioners is inflation.
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Thegreatestthreatof all is to rural bus services.
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Inflation is thegreatestthreatto corporate prosperity.
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Thegreatestthreatto humanity is the military nuclear arsenal.
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Thegreatestthreatto our shared objectives is political instability.
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But perhaps thegreatestthreatto salmon comes from pollution.
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Unemployment is thegreatestthreatto any country.
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That poses thegreatestthreatto the network's survival.
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However, the fact remains that thegreatestthreatis inflation.
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Inflation is thegreatestthreatto our long-term prosperity.
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Large-scale, highly mechanized agriculture is probably thegreatestthreatto the existence of billions of people, for reasons that will be discussed below.
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These events took place during mid- and late summer, the hurricane season when thegreatestthreatof structural failure inducing wind speeds existed.
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The hostility or indifference of the common people posed perhaps thegreatestthreatto ' true religion ': such at least was their perception.
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The intention of the convention was to protect endangered species, and thegreatestthreatto these species, as understood then, was uncontrolled trade in the species.
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In the beginning of this section (the book's most original one), the authors remind us that thegreatestthreatto any community is the loss of its members.
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Thegreatestthreatto democracy lies in failing in our economic tasks.
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Proliferation poses thegreatestthreatto the security of the world.
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That is possibly thegreatestthreatthat faces the world at present.
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Secondly, the rolling motorway concept presents thegreatestthreatto regional policy.
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Those that present thegreatestthreatto human life and coalition operations are destroyed first.
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