This would do nothing to guard against a renewed long-term threat from Iraq.

The two countries have, arguably, become each other's biggest long-term threat.

The story that needs to be told is the larger, long-term threat to the American financial industry.

But Trent himself was a greater long-term threat than the tree.

The forest of junipers as a whole has been under long-term environmental threat.

Washington, he said, needed to be aware of that long-term threat.

Officials of 3M say they have no evidence that the chemicals pose a long-term threat to human health.

I do see Iraq as a long-term threat to be contained.

There are also long-term threats, of which global warming is the most serious.

Deterioration of the environment is a long-term threat to continued rapid economic growth in China.