Bangkok is low-laying and always threatened by floods during monsoon season.
Few dare disobey; anyone who thinks of it is threatened by fellow Serbs.
Think about someone who looked at you intently and you possibly felt threatened by them.
Is your spouse so jealous of or threatened by your friends and family that you hardly ever see them anymore?
Ironically, mangrove forests are threatened by rising sea levels and increasingly strong storms which result from a warmer climate.
But bats are threatened by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that kills them, as well as by deadly collisions with wind turbines.
These birds, such as the lesser prairie chicken, are threatened by farmers converting grasslands into corn fields to meet demand for biofuels.
Family therapist Suzanne Fleetwood thinks the reason we feel threatened by each other is because we all share a need to have our efforts as mothers recognised.
It is unlikely that the Priests would have felt directly threatened by an attack on unscrupulous traders overcharging pilgrims on exchange rates.
A rare reminder of California's rich Spanish and Mexican history, the structure now sits abandoned, deteriorated, exposed to the elements and threatened by demolition.
“The Artist, ” a black-and-white, narrow-screen confection, tells the bittersweet tale of a screen idol whose career is threatened by the arrival of sound.
The discovery could have far-reaching implications for our understanding of the behaviour and ecology of amphibians, many of which are threatened by disease, habitat destruction and illegal trade.
In 2005, during the first launch after the Space shuttle Columbia disaster, a shuttle was threatened by another flying menace: a vulture that smacked into the external tank during takeoff.
