continuing threat

collocation in English

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continue
verb
uk
/kənˈtɪn.juː/us
/kənˈtɪn.juː/
to keep happening, existing, or doing something, or to cause something or someone to ...
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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 ofcontinueandthreatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is acontinuingthreat.
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However, thecontinuingthreatof an armed insurgency led the same modernising elite to tolerate and/or facilitate paramilitary repression.
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It is acontinuingthreatin those areas.
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All this adds up to acontinuingthreatto the employment of ordinary working people.
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There is thatcontinuingthreatof intimidation at the back of these situations.
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We have already heard about thecontinuingthreatto sub-post offices.
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There is always acontinuingthreatof betrayal of our defensive capacity.
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He explained that he would not leave his home, despite thecontinuingthreat.
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The deployment will last as long as it takes to deal with thecontinuingthreat.
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The forthcoming paper will set out proposals for permanent legislation to deal with thecontinuingthreat.
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We act as we do because we believe that there is a substantial andcontinuingthreat.
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Its officers can never switch off from the constant andcontinuingthreatto their safety.
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So it is a very real andcontinuingthreatthat has to be dealt with.
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The first is thecontinuingthreatto smaller, specialist, top-quality food producers, processors and retailers.
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There is acontinuingthreatto other wildlife from eating toxic fish.
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I was immensely impressed by their evident unflappability in the face of what then seemed to be acontinuingthreat.
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Regrettably, there has been some violence, and there is thecontinuingthreat, from epidemics, of danger to health.
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The action also poses acontinuingthreatto freight services, including the movement of coal and oil.
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None of that can be achieved with a background of violence or thecontinuingthreatof violence.
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It is not only in the case of life prisoners that we want to identify offenders who may pose acontinuingthreat.
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What we have to do is ensure that, with independence in 1968 advancing steadily, the country is enabled to withstand the sizeable andcontinuingthreat.
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Thecontinuingthreatof closure stemming from the temporary nature of the annual ritual of legislation has almost halved the real incomes of those competitions.
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In that time, under clause 44 (4), householders will be served with notices about thecontinuingthreatof damage to their property.
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At the same time, they represent acontinuingthreatof nuclear annihilation and a huge waste of resources which should be deployed for peaceful development.
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