The sentiments are not surprising in a country where the vast majority of people are undereducated and poor and represent a latent threat to order.

In the early morning, circumstances changed as two latent threats materialized.

Yes, of course: the unknown value of "X." And there was a latent threat in his tone which she'd never heard there before.

Mr. Baker's effort to persuade the others to go along with the American approach has been reinforced by the latent threat of American protectionism.

But the latent threat deriving from the social power behind such chanting can often be felt, and of course erupts in the panic over 'football hooliganism'.

Her initial months with the team were rough as she was seen as a latent threat, a Brotherhood mole within the X-Men.

I would like to see these computers cleaned up so they don't pose a lasting but latent threat to the rest of us.

He believes that "fear of communism . . . remains a latent threat to the balance of the American cast of mind."

Even today, there is a latent threat of flights being grounded, and it is concerning that we are dependent on air currents.

After 20 . . . Ra5, Taimanov took away any latent threats he might have had on the kingside with 21 fe5?!