31.   Economic challenges have replaced social issues and the Soviet military threat as the defining challenge.

32.   Germany no longer looms as a potential military threat.

33.   Futile as these calibrated policies sometimes seem, they are clearly preferable to flaunting the Seventh Fleet or making implicit military threats.

34.   Government negotiators also said they had come with a plan for lowering tensions and eliminating the lingering military threat.

35.   His remarks on Sunday conspicuously omitted the military threats that the Chinese government has made in the past two weeks.

36.   If a military threat reappears, there will be time to prepare for it.

37.   If Saddam Hussein does not cave in to the sound of sabres rattling, the United States has little choice but to make good its military threats.

38.   If the military threat from China increases, it may become appropriate to revisit the sale proposal at a later date.

39.   If there is no military threat, Boeing will continue refining the technology without actually deploying the weapons.

40.   In addition, the United States has portrayed Iran as a major military threat because of what Washington calls its campaign to build longer-range missiles and chemical weapons.