11.   The threat has some teeth, because Jordan can easily afford to follow through on it.

12.   The threat of litigation has to be in every decision you make because it will be challenged by someone -- a player, an owner and a city.

13.   The threat really has nothing to do with the ibis, a bird whose numbers, senators acknowledge, have declined significantly in the past decade.

14.   The threat of lawsuits has a way of encouraging negotiations.

15.   These threats have the potential to destabilize freedom and progress, and we will not permit it....

16.   Van Schaik now suspects that the ever-present threat of infanticide has a similar effect on all primates.

17.   Police officials said the threat had to be taken seriously after the recent bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam.

18.   After that, she told the Jerusalem Report magazine, pressure and threats had little impact.

19.   In the past, such threats have at best only temporarily calmed front lines.

20.   In Swaziland, a tiny kingdom bordering South Africa, U.S. Ambassador Alan MacKee said the apparently hoax bomb threat had to be taken seriously.