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continuing threat

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meanings of continueand threat


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continue
verb
uk /kənˈtɪn.juː/ us /kənˈtɪn.juː/
to keep happening, existing, or doing something, or to cause something or someone to ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk /θret/ us /θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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Examples of continuing threat


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It is a continuingthreat.
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However, the continuingthreat of an armed insurgency led the same modernising elite to tolerate and/or facilitate paramilitary repression.
It is a continuingthreat in those areas.
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All this adds up to a continuingthreat to the employment of ordinary working people.
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There is that continuingthreat of intimidation at the back of these situations.
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We have already heard about the continuingthreat to sub-post offices.
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There is always a continuingthreat of betrayal of our defensive capacity.
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He explained that he would not leave his home, despite the continuingthreat.
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The deployment will last as long as it takes to deal with the continuingthreat.
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The forthcoming paper will set out proposals for permanent legislation to deal with the continuingthreat.
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We act as we do because we believe that there is a substantial and continuingthreat.
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Its officers can never switch off from the constant and continuingthreat to their safety.
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So it is a very real and continuingthreat that has to be dealt with.
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The first is the continuingthreat to smaller, specialist, top-quality food producers, processors and retailers.
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There is a continuingthreat to other wildlife from eating toxic fish.
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I was immensely impressed by their evident unflappability in the face of what then seemed to be a continuingthreat.
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Regrettably, there has been some violence, and there is the continuingthreat, from epidemics, of danger to health.
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The action also poses a continuingthreat to freight services, including the movement of coal and oil.
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None of that can be achieved with a background of violence or the continuingthreat of violence.
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It is not only in the case of life prisoners that we want to identify offenders who may pose a continuingthreat.
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What we have to do is ensure that, with independence in 1968 advancing steadily, the country is enabled to withstand the sizeable and continuingthreat.
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The continuingthreat of closure stemming from the temporary nature of the annual ritual of legislation has almost halved the real incomes of those competitions.
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In that time, under clause 44 (4), householders will be served with notices about the continuingthreat of damage to their property.
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At the same time, they represent a continuingthreat of nuclear annihilation and a huge waste of resources which should be deployed for peaceful development.
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