1.   Once upon a time such a threat would have ended the conflict, but Old World codes no longer worked.

2.   But fittingly, the threat ended when Watson was intercepted on fourth down in the end zone by Todd Jensen.

3.   But the threat ended when Estes struck out pinch-hitter Juan Castro.

4.   But the threat ended as quickly as it began.

5.   But the threat ended quickly when Manny Ramirez hit a routine fly to right and Bichette hit a forceout to second.

6.   In the seventh, a threat had also ended with a double-play grounder by Luis Alicea.

7.   Many slaves, after following the North Star to Canada, came back to Maine after the threat of slavery ended.

8.   That threat ended when Mike Simms, pinch-hitting for Stevens, grounded out.

9.   The eighth-inning threat officially ended when Anderson retired designated hitter Dante Bichette on a fly to right.

10.   The era in which the United States and Russia saw each other as an enemy or strategic threat has ended.