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• threat — n. 1) to issue, make, utter a threat 2) to carry out, fulfill a threat 3) to be, constitute, pose a threat 4) a covert; dire, grave, serious; direct; empty, idle; explicit; imminent; implicit; terroristic; veiled threat 5) a security threat 6) a… …   Combinatory dictionary

• threat — A communicated intent to inflict physical or other harm on any person or on property. A declaration of an intention to injure another or his property by some unlawful act. State v. Schweppe, Minn., 237 N.W.2d 609, 615. A declaration of intention… …   Black's law dictionary

• threat — n: an expression of an intention to injure another: menace (1) criminal laws against making terroristic threat s Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• threat */*/*/ — UK [θret] / US noun Word forms threat : singular threat plural threats 1) [countable/uncountable] a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger threat to: Officials were confident there had been no threat to public health. a threat… …   English dictionary

• threat — noun 1 expression of intention to do harm/punish ADJECTIVE ▪ dire, terrible ▪ Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully. ▪ empty, idle ▪ The ki …   Collocations dictionary

• constitute — con|sti|tute W3 [ˈkɔnstıtju:t US ˈka:nstıtu:t] v [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of constituere to set up, constitute , from com ( COM ) + statuere to set up ] 1.) [linking verb, not in progressive] to be considered to be… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• constitute — verb Constitute is used with these nouns as the object: ↑achievement, ↑breach, ↑category, ↑challenge, ↑class, ↑discrimination, ↑element, ↑emergency, ↑endorsement, ↑failure, ↑group, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• Demographic threat — The concept of demographic threat (or demographic bomb) is a term used in political conversation to refer to population increases from within a minority ethnic group in a given country that are perceived as threatening to alter the ethnic… …   Wikipedia

• Legal threat — This article is about the legal practice; for Wikipedia s policy on the matter please see A Legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party, generally accompanied by a demand that the other party take… …   Wikipedia

• International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons — Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons was an advisory opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 8 July 1996. [ [http://www.icj cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3 p2=4 k=e1 case=95 code=unan p3=4 Legality of the Threat …   Wikipedia

• Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …   History of philosophy