Development of adjacent uplands continues to be a significant and pervasive threat to southern populations.

The bombing in Oklahoma City, despite the enormous damage and carnage, did not represent the sort of pervasive threat that much of Europe has faced.

The Death of Habitats While there is seldom a single factor responsible for a species' decline or extinction, experts agreed that the most pervasive threat is destruction of delicate fish habitats.

Death by atherosclerosis may be a pervasive threat today, but for most of the past three million years it was a consummation devoutly to be wished.

There is a communicable disease that exists and that has created a pervasive threat to our society.

But the "most pervasive" threat isn't a hack attack that might somehow launch nuclear missiles and start a war (as in the old Wargames movie); it's intellectual property.

The most fundamental tensions were those created by the widening income disparities between the people who were "getting rich" and those who were not and by the pervasive threat of inflation.

Mediation and moderation research continues to inform the field's knowledge and understanding of a pervasive and dangerous threat to public health, substance abuse and dependence.

Alien invasive trees, which shade out the habitat, are considered one of the most pervasive and significant threats facing specialized, endemic South African dragonflies and damselflies.

"While some Iraqi security forces may be complicit with the militias, others fear for their families when confronting the militia, and that is the more pervasive threat."