Each confederation plan presupposes friendly relations among its ethnic constituents, not armed threats against one another.

But she says the coup attempts and armed threats of recent months have not shaken her.

"But people forget that they're still an armed threat."

Many faculty members were outraged at this image of Cornell and at what they considered the school's outright surrender to armed threats.

Their demise as a serious fighting force removes an armed threat to stability, and closes an arena of competition between the major parties.

Stealing, armed threats and extortion have become routine in the capital.

The Soviet Union was our unquestioned enemy, a highly armed threat to freedom and democracy.

But there has been no need for armed threats in the first days of the agreement in Hebron.

I daren't go myself-it might be seen as an armed threat, even if I went without a military escort.

The organization's governing body met in closed session until late Monday debating a new resolution on armed threats to civil operations.