dangerous threat
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dangerous
adjective
uk/ˈdeɪn.dʒər.əs/us/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ.əs/
A dangerous person, animal, thing, or activity could ...
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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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From this perspective, cleverness is adangerousthreatto candor and friendship (sw adaqa).
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It is adangerousthreatto agriculture and adangerousthreatalso to the future amenities of our countryside.
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In this model, childbearing becomes adangerousthreatto economic stability, both on an individual and a communal level.
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It is the combination of temptation with opportunity which makes a sovereign's right to tax without the ' consent' of his subjects into such adangerousthreat.
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This is, in my view, very important in the face of this tremendouslydangerousthreat.
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This represents a very, verydangerousthreatcapable of undermining its very foundations.
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By far the most urgent anddangerousthreatfacing this country is inflation.
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There remains a continuing potent anddangerousthreatfrom dissident paramilitaries.
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It is a childish and adangerousthreatwhich has done nothing but harm.
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Drugs constitute adangerousthreatto the health of our children, and liberalisation of these drugs increases this further.
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At its present high and intolerable rate, inflation itself, in our view, presents the mostdangerousthreatto full employment.
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There is in the comprehensive concept adangerousthreatof insistence on human rights and individual liberty.
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It is the threat one cannot see and may not discover until it is too late which is perhaps the mostdangerousthreatof all.
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Nevertheless, the top-level leaders are still at large, and the campaign of assassination in the towns remains a particularlydangerousthreatto law and order.
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It isdangerousthreatto a useful part of the community, and to businesses which are of benefit to the economy.
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What we have today is not conflict but confrontation, not a breach of the peace but a deep anddangerousthreatto peace.
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They also seek a form of prestige — the prestige of being acknowledged to be adangerousthreatto the rest of us.
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But also, and in particular, because the indiscriminate liberalisation of all port services constitutes adangerousthreatto safety, the environment and employment.
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I believe that it is also worth remembering that the power to restrict membership of the legislature is potentially a verydangerousthreatto liberty.
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They put polythene and bottles everywhere which has become adangerousthreatto the natural environment.
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His maniacal personality and mental instability make him a verydangerousthreat.
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If he survives the case, he will be adangerousthreatto all his rivals.
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His ability to make the big catch also made him adangerousthreatanywhere on the field.
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But perhaps also, all the time, we were closing our eyes to what may prove to be an even moredangerousthreat—the development of chemical and biological warfare.
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We know that during recent weeks the situation has gravely deteriorated and there is a growing fear that the conflict may degenerate into adangerousthreatto world peace.
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