1.   In the absence of a direct threat to order the public opinion which had caused Loris-Melikov such anxiety appeared powerless.

2.   The workers destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs.

3.   It reopened several days later, however, and no further desalination plants came under direct threat during February.

4.   The ruling Democratic Liberal Party condemned the remarks as a senseless statement which posed a direct threat to the free democratic system.

5.   Although the parameters of abortion protest are already being tested in other courtrooms, the case is the first unrelated to a direct threat or confrontation.

6.   And since it faces no direct threat from any particular enemy, the greater threat may often seem to be the multilateral strings that tie this Gulliver down.

7.   Arpaio said he saw the spider, bomb or no bomb, as a direct threat on his life.

8.   As they have been for years, Saudi officials said, U.S. pilots based in Saudi Arabia remain authorized to use force against Iraq in situations of direct threat.

9.   At the other are those like France, Russia, some large developing countries and most Arab nations who say they no longer see a direct military threat.