to threaten; to menace

Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

The threat to Richmond was ended.

His life is in danger.

There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

Since communism became obsolete and the dictatorship of the proletariat is out of date, capitalism proves to be the best so far, even though it itself is still a threat for humanity.