I may be, but not because of any immediate threat.
This setting, at least, seemed to offer no immediate threat.
Nevertheless, they were far enough away to be of no immediate threat.
It would be the Americans who presented him with the immediate threat.
You buy some time, get out from under the immediate threat.
They did not seem to be any immediate threat to him.
But the old woman, clearly homeless, seemed no immediate threat.
Only the immediate threat to her had prompted his action.
He couldn't see how they could be a serious immediate threat.
That had to be years in the future, Sam told himself, and there was a far more immediate threat.