To the leather shop owners, they were an economic threat.

"But there should not be so much exaggeration of the economic threats from China."

They wonder, to begin with, if new immigrants are really much of an economic threat, and they're not alone in their skepticism.

"People being able to vote on the inside, they don't have that economic threat hanging over their heads."

Doctors and patients must stop looking at each other as an economic threat.

People want a sign that Washington understands the seriousness of the economic threat.

There is no longer any political, economic or social threat to the West from the East.

The political and economic threat posed by the world's dependence on oil.

Other people today said Lithuanians would resist any sort of economic threat.

But while economic threats worked well in past years, they are losing their credibility.