1.   Fear of greater threats to internal security, such as open revolts, clearly does not exist.

2.   The essential line of argument is that a reformed electoral system could constitute a greater threat to the maintenance of political authority than any defects of the existing system.

3.   American investors perceive Alan Greenspan as a greater threat than Saddam Hussein.

4.   An even greater threat is supercenters.

5.   And as communications equipment makers begin incorporating e-mail and in some cases rudimentary World Wide Web browsers into wireless phones, paging companies face an even greater threat.

6.   Analysts have said that Intel faces a greater threat from a changing marketplace than it does from government prosecution.

7.   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.

8.   Asteroids present a much greater threat and will be easier to deflect.

9.   At its most recent meeting, the Fed switched its so-called bias, announcing that it thought a recession was a greater threat than inflation.

10.   Because they face a greater threat to their livelihood than big government ever posed.