The British embassy in Libyan capital, Tripoli, has said it was aware of "a potential threat" against it.
Before now bees were thought to secrete 2-heptanone as an alarm pheromone to tell other colony members about a potential threat.
French intelligence agents are authorised to snoop not only on those who pose a potential threat to security or public order.
The company failed to realize a crop of "algorithmic" Web-search engines such as Google were a potential threat to its business.
Micron is also a strong promoter of DDR memory, which Rambus can't help but see as a potential threat to its RDRAM memory.
In Scotland, soils such as peat store more than 3, 000 megatonnes of carbon posing a potential threat to the environment, SNH reported in 2010.
The database will be used by the Homeland Security Operations Center, which monitors incidents around the country to determine if there's a potential threat.
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One company may be a few hours ahead of another, and those few hours of benefit can be invaluable in mitigating a potential threat.
As important as changing their attitudes toward weapons on campus is providing students with anonymous ways to let authorities know about a potential threat.
Bird flu has been detected, but Defra said initial tests were negative for the H5 and H7 strains, which are a potential threat to humans.
Flight attendants are compelled to respond more quickly to a potential threat but also to do whatever it takes to keep the situation from escalating.
They also reminded Americans of a potential threat to their north.
Takeda sells Actos, the world's top-selling diabetes pill, and Rozerem, a potential threat to sleep drugs like Lunesta and Ambien that so far hasn't taken off.
Yet Intel and Sun face a potential threat from the upstart Transmeta, whose chips run only 75% as fast but suck only 20% of the power.
As great a potential threat as nuclear weapons proliferation - and as demanding of a coordinated international response - is the threat from failing and unstable states.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the police department has been aware of a potential threat to the Republican National Convention and continues to take precautions.
But the early focus of the investigation suggests a potential threat to Google's plans to expand its commercial success beyond its current cash cow: the Web-search engine.
Abdulmutallab was a Nigerian national who had been reported to Western officials by his own father as a potential threat, but had not qualified for the no-fly list.
However subsequent meetings to discuss this teenage girl were not told of Arthur McElhill's record nor was there any assessment of a potential threat to the other children in the house.
That move, privately lamented by most government ministers, not only puts a question mark over Ms Bachelet's stated commitment to more open government, but also poses a potential threat to accountability.
Criminologist Gregg McCrary, a former behavioral scientist for the FBI, said the agency gets criticized both when it doesn't warn people and when it does warn of a potential threat, as Attorney General John Ashcroft did Monday.
Just as we in Europe have had to revise our traditional view of Britain as a country living in the past and lagging behind the mainstream of economic and social development, it is time for the British to revise their traditional view of the continent as a potential threat, and show enough courage to join the club.
Any such "proxies" would be viewed as a "potential threat" to coalition forces, Rumsfeld said.
At the same time, MOOCs pose a huge potential threat to traditional university programs.
Earlier this week, the Foreign Office warned of a "potential threat" to the British embassy in Tripoli.
It has enemies, but none that pose a potential existential threat.
The refusal by France, Germany and Belgium to agree to NATO's plans to bolster Turkey's defences against a potential military threat from Iraq left the Americans incandescent.
So it's worthwhile teasing out a rough quantification of how "potential" a threat antinomy is.
O'HARA: Dan Blumenthal says the new report also defines a broader potential nuclear threat to the United States.
Belgian authorities continue to insist that the alleged cell was a potential national security threat.
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