Judge Dolinger said that even if Mr. Borker had not physically harmed anyone, he could still be a threat to society given his habit of terrifying his customers.

法官多林格则表态，尽管被告未在身体上伤害他人，但他恐吓顾客的行为对整个社会来说依然是一种威胁。

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Poverty is a threat to society.

贫困对社会是一种威胁。

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The man is a threat to society.

这个人会对社会构成威胁。

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He or she must be considered a threat to society.

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It was a threat to hierarchy and the South became quite distinctively a very hierarchical society more on that in just a second.

民主对阶级制度是一大威胁,相对于北方,南方的阶级制度,更根深蒂固

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Or, somewhat more ambiguously, if a threat to society is known to exist, but the "length of the fuse" remains uncertain?

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Tucker now says that she is a different person to the one that committed the crime and believes that her death sentence should be commuted because she is no longer a threat to society.

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In almost every state in the country there is also civil committment (in a mental health facility) where those whom have multiple convictions of a sexual nature are sent for after confinement treatment and not released until that person can convince a team of phycologists and a judge that they are no longer a threat to society.

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