The ultimate threat, in marriage and work, is divorce and dismissal.

Then I pulled out the ultimate threat, never yet enforced but always possible: a permanent sweet blockade.

Voting six to three, the court ruled that this ultimate threat violated states' rights.

Finally he was mad enough to make the ultimate threat.

She spoke into her suit radio, offering what should have been for a machine the ultimate threat.

Even the ultimate threat did not move him.

I believe the only ultimate threat to baseball isn't bad owners or commissioners but corruption.

And that includes the ultimate threat: picking up and moving.

That's the ultimate threat we have to face up to.

Your ultimate threat to vacate the property is a promise you must be prepared to carry out.