From what little we know about their behavior and capabilities, it's impossible to say how great a threat the aliens actually present.

Although that crisis seemed serious then, compared with the present threat to the world banking system, it was small beer.

Can we agree that the present threat of exposure has been eliminated?

At least he is no present threat to us here.

And yet he couldn't help but ask himself what would happen if he did nothing to counteract the present threat.

But what the Taliban represents is an even more clear and present threat to women everywhere.

"I'm not convinced regarding a clear and present threat," he said in Senate debate.

We are talking not about a future danger but about a present threat.

"Yet with the Duke captured, he could spare the men, and the time- for all present threats were laid."

The major present threat in this area is cattle grazing.