The city has not yet used eminent domain to help Ikea, but it is a powerful threat.

He was captivated by the fact that they would soon be laying their lives on the line against a threat almost too powerful to imagine.

But together we formed a powerful threat to his ambition.

They view the rise of democracy in Iraq as a powerful threat to their ambitions.

It has always been a powerful threat, but not because the nation depends on Amtrak's trains.

What a powerful threat to deploy against one's children - learn it or lose it.

The Soviet Union has been and remains a powerful threat to the freedom that we value.

They were a powerful threat to the Jefferson.

But the Medicare legislation also poses a powerful threat to the way many of the largest such companies do business.

The notion of throwing out a decades-old system is a powerful bureaucratic threat.