Clear And Present Danger

Definition: Clear And Present Danger

Clear And Present Danger

Noun

1. A standard for judging when freedom of speech can be abridged; "no one has a right to shout `fire' in a crowded theater when there is no fire because such an action would pose a clear and present danger to public safety".

Modern Usage: Clear And Present Danger

Commercial Usage: Clear And Present Danger

Domain	Title
Books	Clear and Present Danger (reference) Tom Clancy (Three #1 Bestsellers in One Collection: The Cardinal Of The Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum Of All Fears) [ABRIDGED] (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Clear and Present Danger (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spoken Usage: Clear And Present Danger

Speaker	Phrase(s)
John McCain	There's a clause in the United Nations charter that every nation has a right of self-defense. I believe you can make the argument that Saddam Hussein is a clear and present danger to the United States of America.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speeches: Clear And Present Danger

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	The deficit problem is a clear and present danger to the basic health of our Republic.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clear And Present Danger

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Alternative Orthography: Clear And Present Danger

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 65 61 72 41 6E 64 50 72 65 73 65 6E 74 44 61 6E 67 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#65 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0065 0061 0072 0041 006E 0064 0050 0072 0065 0073 0065 006E 0074 0044 0061 006E 0067 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	A Clear and Present Danger (1970)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
clear and present danger	78
clear and present danger movie	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Clear And Present Danger

Definition: Clear And Present Danger