11.   The terrorist threat is still real, and the public should remain vigilant.

12.   The threat is as if a garbage truck had overturned and dumped wilted intellectual lettuce on bystanders.

13.   The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words.

14.   The threat was that if reform failed, one of their liveliest, most intelligent, and often wealthiest constituencies would withdraw.

15.   The threats were dire enough to make the Republicans look reckless when they refused to budge.

16.   There had been death threats against prison staff.

17.   There is a threat that the violence will break out again.

18.   There is, after all, very little risk in defying the United States now that the Soviet threat is history.

19.   This time the threat is not to man, but to rare species of seal, por poise and sea birds.

20.   Unknown distant future threats are not a reason for spending so much money on the military now.