continual threat
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontinualandthreat
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continual
adjective
uk/kənˈtɪn.ju.əl/us/kənˈtɪn.ju.əl/
happening repeatedly, usually in an annoying or not ...
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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 ofcontinualandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Countless driftsand deposits in the heathlands bear witness to thecontinualthreatof over-exploitation.
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They very rarely act as common informer themselves, or get anyone to do it, but they use thecontinualthreatof common informer machinery.
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Such hardships were attributed by the missionaries to the insecurities brought about by thecontinualthreatof discovery and persecution.
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The population remains sharply divided and uprooted ex-combatants pose acontinualthreatto a fragile democracy.
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Countless driftsand deposits in the heathlands bear witness to thecontinualthreatof over-exploitation.
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What the champions of unfettered religious reason chose to ignore-and what their modern counterparts choose to forget-is that this confessional balance was undercontinualthreatof destabilization.
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They very rarely act as common informer themselves, or get anyone to do it, but they use thecontinualthreatof common informer machinery.
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Another contributing cause of unemployment is thecontinualthreatof dear money.
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There has been continual cutting back on the service, a continual use of hospital cars and acontinualthreatof privatisation.
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The demands of policing a modern society are intense, and there is acontinualthreatof violence.
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I know of no other prison which operates under such difficult circumstances, nor where staff are under suchcontinualthreatand pressure.
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I know of no other prison that operates under such difficult circumstances, or where staff are under suchcontinualthreatand pressure.
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He became involved in political activism at an early age, and from 1933 on he was undercontinualthreatof arrest and imprisonment.
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Drunk, confused, and hostile patients and visitors are acontinualthreatto providers attempting to treat patients.
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Additionally, oil spills are acontinualthreat.
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There must be an end to such continual threats.
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