What is "threats"

Usage examples of "threats".

Given these threats alone, regional governments might be deterred from ever participating in an Afghan-style campaign.

Should the United States not make good on those threats, international opinion is likely to be more convinced than ever that there are no penalties for noncompliance with the U.

Eventually the regime was able to snuff out all of these threats, and none ever really threatened its control.

One last important note: all of the Arab states are extremely conservative, especially when it comes to threats to their internal security.

Thus, for Saddam, giving up his WMD programs could create major threats to his regime by undermining its military power and its claims to legitimacy.

His preoccupation with internal threats, and his tendency to exaggerate their danger, leads him to believe that he can deal with them by taking action in the foreign policy arena, and his need and ignorance of the larger world lead him to underestimate the risks of these external actions.

It drove home to many Americans the realization that there are still deadly threats in the world and that there are people who are looking to inflict terrible destruction on the United States.

September 11 convinced many Americans that we needed to be more engaged in the world, to actively seek out threats and destroy them before they can strike at us.

In what would become a frequent cycle in Iraq, economic problems created security threats for the regime.

United States would be safe from most threats because we would simply be too strong for the majority of international actors to confront, while at the same time we would assure ourselves of the power to deal with any threat that become truly dangerous.

Faced with mounting internal threats, a deteriorating economic situation, and no relief in sight, Saddam decided to try to force the issue.

To back up these threats, Saddam began mobilizing Republican Guard divisions on October 2 and sending them south to the border with Kuwait.

Initially, American field commanders asked for, and were granted, permission to take action to eliminate threats to their aircraft, but the administration began to think about how the responses might be used to serve the goal of regime change.

However, terrorism is the least of the threats posed by Iraq to the interests of the United States.

Iraq found itself in both 1990 and 1994--which prompted the invasion of Kuwait and the later threat to Kuwait, both of which were extremely risky gambits designed to stave off what he perceived to be dire threats, even though they hardly appeared as such to the rest of the world.