Example sentences of "a threat to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long , however , the euphoria and hope turned to terror and tyranny , and first under the Committee of Public Safety and the Triumvirate , and then led by the Corsican dictator Napoleon , France became for a time , a threat to every nation in Europe . |
| 2 | Yet in the first half of the century the number of unmarried women increased substantially , so that they formed a significant minority group Spinsters maintained an anomalous social position and were often seen as a threat to a society that assumed all women would marry and be subject to the control of their husbands [ Hill , 229–30 ] . |
| 3 | A threat to a person 's property in his presence might very well provoke the use of force by way of self-protection , which would seem to qualify . |
| 4 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 5 | Whereas for John the Kingdom came as a threat to a people who were unprepared , for Jesus it represented good news to those who felt unworthy or excluded . |
| 6 | He will be given the task of hunting down and destroying external enemies who are posing a threat to the Gold Dragon Hung . |
| 7 | This is distressing and is likely to change the patient 's body-image and is a threat to the person 's usual lifestyle . |
| 8 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 9 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 10 | The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry : |
| 11 | The eradication of hunger is not a threat to the well-being of people in the industrialised countries because there is more than enough food for everyone . |
| 12 | The inference in this was not really about the career chances of the still tiny percentage of graduates ( who are obviously well aware that their chances of reaching the highest echelons are constrained by the limitations in the numbers of top posts ) , rather it was a reassertion that those with a degree are almost a different species and remain a threat to the stability of the institution . |
| 13 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 14 | It is still not generally appreciated just how serious a threat to the peace of Europe was posed by the situation developing in north-east Italy and southern Austria in the days immediately following the end of the European war in 1945 . |
| 15 | The fact that it is only at puberty that initiation occurs today and that it was only at this age that young males came to pose a threat to the peace and stability of early human societies seems to have had , quite apart from its evident social and psychological consequences , important physiological ones as well . |
| 16 | The proposals implied too serious a threat to the counties ' precious Sunday revenues , and were substantially rejected despite some compromise on the structure of the Championship , which in 1988 came to include six four-day matches . |
| 17 | They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other . |
| 18 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 19 | It is however felt by elements of both left and right to pose a threat to the sovereignty and cultural integrity of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | This was too much of a threat to the rest of the work of the organization which is rooted in competition and activities . |
| 21 | To what extent is this a threat to the management development specialist ? |
| 22 | This relationship has been a concern , however , of those who perceive the growth of central government financing as a threat to the independence of local government . |
| 23 | In November 1987 , the head of the Chancery Division of the High Court , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , in a public lecture spoke of a threat to the independence of the legal system arising ‘ by reason of the executive 's control of finance and administration ’ . |
| 24 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 25 | They find in Rousseau 's stress on the unity of society , and his dislike of factions or interest groups , a threat to the pluralism and tolerance of diversity which are regarded as the hallmarks of a liberal democracy . |
| 26 | The impetus behind the NBA was the problem in Victorian times of widespread and severe price cutting in the retail book trade , which was seen as a threat to the viability of booksellers and publishers . |
| 27 | OUTDOOR pig-keeping in Denmark is expanding , but is unlikely to pose much of a threat to the UK , according to Nick Manderfield , of Breckland Farms , who recently returned from a study tour . |
| 28 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 29 | Explains of the non-profit making CSCB : ‘ The absence of listing for the Wharf would be a threat to the building if the developers wanted to demolish it . |
| 30 | It claims the annual American-South Korean military exercises , known as Team Spirit , are a threat to the North ; that the Americans still have nuclear weapons in South Korea ; and that the South has not been inspected for nuclear bases . |