Others view salad as a foreign substance and, like smokers, often see complications as a distant threat.

The rest of the world (you people) only represent distant threats.

The medicine had drowned his pain, but it remained for her a distant throbbing threat.

The aliens are too distant a threat to be worrying our dear Majesty yet.

But I.'s main concern about the future is more immediate than the distant threat of death from a disease she does not understand.

In Bloomberg's case, he argues distant threats are not great motivators.

But it was mostly a distant threat, not yet a reality.

"This is not a distant threat," the panel said.

It was this distant threat that oppressed Harry more than anything else.

But after all, the planners said, the blimp's job would be to warn the fleet of a distant threat.