counterthreat

He could no longer hold the girl's life as a counterthreat against The Shadow.

The growl in her throat was an illustrated manual of counterthreat.

Not that the forest creatures were without defenses: for millions of years threat and counterthreat had evolved here.

Someone at an embassy or a consulate who was given the words that constituted a counterthreat."

A7 In Canada, a kickback scandal and a counterthreat.

Lacking a counterthreat, I invented one."

He didn't want to start an escalating spiral of threat and counterthreat, but bending the rules didn't seem to work where Captain Kasak was concerned.

When he realized that the only real threat could be the Station's own defenses, he knew that his insystem drive was the only viable counterthreat.

The government said that the raid was part of a tax investigation, but energy analysts said the exchange of threat and counterthreat was all too clear.

A presidential counterthreat to order an audit of the lawmakers' finances instantly doused their ardor, even if the lawmakers did not formally drop their accusations.

Google doesn't have a patent portfolio to match the portfolios of Microsoft, Apple or Oracle; so it doesn't represent a counterthreat.

Threat and counterthreat and curses and then Father Alvito had spurred on ahead for Yedo, leaving disaster in his wake, the joy of the journey ruined.

Below eyes that blazed from beneath a slouch hat brim was The Shadow's counterthreat, the muzzle of a .45 automatic swinging toward Rudy Waygart.

A human would have reacted differently, perhaps with a counterthreat, possibly with a challenge of his own, maybe with a word-string full of hatred and accusation and foul language.

Instead she answered with calm, deliberate reason and counterthreat, so adroitly that had I not been monitoring her with the Terran norms programmed in, I would have thought her made of steel.

The VNAF responded by sending more planes into the air to trail the Americans and responded with a counterthreat, to which Walt reacted by sending more planes into the air.

At a moment when we faced the most dramatic foreign attack on the continental United States in our history, the Times chose to focus on a largely phantom counterthreat of supposedly equal danger-the so-called erosion of civil liberties.

Pentagon and administration officials who discussed the new intelligence assessment said they wanted to counter any false perception that India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, were simply going through a well-rehearsed dance of threat and counterthreat.

And in all of that political turmoil and suffering, all of that bluster, threat, and counterthreat, there were painfully few options that did not lead to a war that would ravage every nation from Croatia and Hungary to Greece, Albania, and Turkey.