• Chuy says the incident with the police was the only "direct threat" he's received.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • This is perhaps the most direct threat, one that police say Dorner has carried out already.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • There's a more direct threat to the country's millions of small-scale and largely inefficient shopkeepers.

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  • The decision was highly controversial with Boeing workers who saw it as a direct threat to their jobs.

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  • This is a direct threat to U.S security given the Mexican cartels access to the U.S Southern border.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • They no longer pose a direct threat to the state, as did Pablo Escobar, a violent Medellin boss, a decade ago.

    ECONOMIST: Colombia

  • Maybe it is not a direct threat to our current data warehouses but to the customer Enterprise Search is a sort of BI.

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  • The other thing I'd like to say about the effort is this -- is that the focus right now was on a direct threat to citizens.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • For the majority of German workers, companies' growing willingness to shift production to wherever labour and capital costs are cheapest is a direct threat to their jobs.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's economy

  • And since it faces no direct threat from any particular enemy, the greater threat may often seem to be the multilateral strings that tie this Gulliver down.

    ECONOMIST: America��s world

  • Last year Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, said his agency was watching about 2, 000 people deemed to pose a direct threat to national security and public safety.

    ECONOMIST: Unlike in America, terrorism in Europe is often home-grown

  • "This serious deterioration of the situation threatens even more the stability and integrity of Mali and constitutes a direct threat to international peace and security, " the council said.

    CNN: State of emergency declared in Mali

  • "The standard is if you believe that your patient is an imminent, direct threat to another person, then you have to say something, " Caplan said in a telephone interview.

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  • The Hammers enjoyed some comfortable early possession in midfield but posed little direct threat and the kind of cunning invention typified by their manager Gianfranco Zola as a player.

    BBC: Yossi Benayoun

  • Palestinian officials have previously suggested that bringing their disputes with Israel to the ICC was an option, but this appears to be an unusually direct threat, our correspondent says.

    BBC: Palestinians threaten to sue Israel over settlements

  • Mr Netanyahu also reiterated his view that Iran and its nuclear programme posed a direct threat to world peace, which could only be stopped by a "direct military threat", not sanctions or tough diplomacy.

    BBC: Israel ready to act on Syria weapons, warns Netanyahu

  • An IAS that poses a direct threat to human health is the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which has been linked to the transmission of more than 20 human pathogens, including yellow fever and dengue.

    BBC: Report tracks threats from Europe's alien invasion

  • Friends of the Earth countered that Northern Ireland shouldn't be regarded as a place apart, citing examples, like the stabbing attack on Labour MP Stephen Timms, when politicians in Great Britain have been under direct threat.

    BBC: Perception and reality

  • There were fewer people watching Mr Powell live at the UN this time, and for all the worries about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, the direct threat to the United States seemed far more distant.

    BBC: Americans weigh Iraq evidence

  • Hamilton started the brighter, but the most direct threat on goal came from Rangers' Kenny Miller who scampered like an Easter bunny down the left wing and bore into the box before testing Cerny at the near post.

    BBC: Rangers 1-0 Hamilton

  • Unlike the numerous recent dispensary raids, which could theoretically result from competing interpretations of state law, this new incursion constitutes a direct threat of arrest against state employees acting in good faith to administer perfectly lawful state programs.

    FORBES: The Obama Administration��s War on Medical Marijuana

  • "If anything was likely to have encouraged William Tudor to get his act together on food hygiene, it would have been the direct threat of failing to secure, or losing, what was a very significant contract, " said Prof Pennington.

    BBC: Safety call after E.coli inquiry

  • The app wouldn't appear to pose a direct threat to Google because it could potentially help phone makers and wireless carriers sell more Android devices, which include Google's revenue-generating search service, YouTube, Google Maps and other services, rather than those made by rival Apple.

    WSJ: Facebook to Land on Phone's Home Screen

  • What is also true is that, to this point, AQIM has not represented a direct threat to the homeland, but you can tell by our support of the mission that the French have undertaken and by our overall efforts to go after, and contain and defeat extremists who would do harm to our interests, that we are very serious about this.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • No major power presents a direct military threat to our core national security interests.

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  • Just last month, the U.S. State Department said, in a report, that Canada's lax screening of immigrants and refugees was a direct security threat to the United States.

    NPR: U.S. Worries as Canada Welcomes New Immigrants

  • Mr De Hoop Scheffer added that he had been concerned by Russia's threat to re-direct its missiles at Europe.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Nato wary on joint missile shield

  • My recommendation is to view direct providers as as large of a threat as other competitors and to make sure to continually point out to clients your competitive advantages vis-a-vis them, as you do everyone else.

    FORBES: A Growing Threat To Financial Advisors

  • Giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers acknowledged there may not be a lot of direct evidence that local political donors would be under threat if their names are published.

    BBC: Perception and reality

  • Both should also benefit some from the recent problems that Dell is having with its direct sales model, once thought to be a bigger threat to retail store computer sales.

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