1.   It is important to remember that logical consequences are never to be used as an idle threat.

2.   She was not a woman to make idle threats.

3.   This was no idle threat from Rhodes, whose sole focus is winning.

4.   It was more of an idle threat than anything.

5.   And he has tried idle threats, saying several times that he would shake the team up.

6.   After the devastating terrorist attacks on New York and Washington last month, few Americans were about to shrug off his words as idle threats.

7.   Although difficult and sure to stir great legal wrangling, taking back Indian lands is not an idle threat.

8.   But academy officials said they had received many other offers to pick up the awards ceremony for as much if not more money, making this an idle threat.

9.   But when Mays arrived early the next morning and saw Kreutzer was not in, he feared that this time it was no idle threat.

10.   E-book piracy is not an idle threat.