| If you want to threaten me, I promise you that no member of your local will work here for the next 60 years. |
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| Instead the black-haired woman kept her gaze focused on him, coiled to act if anything dared threaten her. |
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| On February 18 a countrywide ban will come into force, although legal challenges threaten to delay it by a year or more. |
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| Secondly, China continues to threaten to resolve the Taiwan issue by force. |
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| If they don't like what the courts are doing, they threaten to defund the courts. |
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| A majestic theme emerges, its clarity disrupted by prickly guitars and scrambled flutterings that threaten to bury it completely. |
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| Scientists found male fiddler crabs often aid their neighbors when intruders threaten to move in. |
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| Soaring pension costs and a shortage of labor threaten to severely crimp Finland's fast-paced gross domestic product growth, economists say. |
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| He becomes obsessed with them, and when he develops photos that threaten their happy marriage, he becomes a powder keg waiting to explode. |
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| And with God as his ally, he can face the multitude of enemies and gainsayers who threaten him everywhere. |
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| The measures came as sectarian attacks threaten to derail a fragile peace deal. |
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| And it is understood that military spending threatens neighbor states, causing them to arm themselves, so that arms races threaten the peace. |
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| The judgment has also not found any motive on the part of the contemners to threaten the Judges. |
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| European lawmakers are being urged to crack down on the luxury cruise liners that threaten marine life by pumping pollutants into the open ocean. |
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| Teachers were so concerned that they called police and at one point an officer was forced to threaten to use CS gas to disperse the crowd. |
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| I am a non-violent person and I would not intentionally threaten Mike or anyone else for that matter. |
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| Yet for all his vision, he has not fought hard enough against the polluters who threaten the planet. |
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| Why is the pine marten, a protected species, being allowed to threaten an endangered species? |
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| What he can't do is to make attendance compulsory, or threaten that non-attendance will delay other qualifications. |
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| During the Cold War, nuclear danger grew to threaten all points of the compass. |
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| Earlier, strong gusts of wind had come funnelling through the valley and it felt for a while like they might threaten to disrupt proceedings. |
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| The fact on which he now relies is that though he stole, he did not in fact threaten violence. |
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| Salford repeatedly lost possession on the first tackle and lacked a cutting edge when they managed to threaten the Blue Sox line. |
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| Regardless of whatever musical or fashion trend that happens to threaten its existence, metal will always remain. |
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| And so, he said, companies are seeking ways to live with the technologies that threaten them and are trying to turn them to their advantage. |
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| Forced switches of drugs within patent threaten the pharmaceutical industry's earning capacity. |
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| Let me now assuage the fear of theory by pointing out that there are theories which actually threaten or ignore the literariness of literature. |
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| Does active military involvement in defense policymaking actually threaten civilian control? |
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| Earthquakes strike even in the Midwest, fires periodically scorch the West, and tornadoes repeatedly threaten the Heartland. |
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| We also must also educate ourselves about the importance of the constitution and opposition to those who threaten the rule of law. |
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| They fear that a rise of fundamentalism will threaten the country's commitment to secularism. |
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| They could emote operatically and weep in the streets and threaten suicide. |
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| These misdirected desires oppose our godly identity and constantly threaten to overwhelm it. |
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| It creates a high dependency culture that tends to undermine local economic growth and threaten local services. |
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| Several nonnative noxious weeds have invaded stickseed habitat and threaten to out-compete the stickseed for the available nutrients. |
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| Still, almost every week, various baddies steal Jimmy blind and threaten to bring down plague. |
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| Thus, cancelbots which were meant to be a technical solution to net abuse threaten to become a plague. |
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| I did not threaten him or the Second Defendant nor did I become verbally abusive towards them at any time. |
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| There have already been incidents which threaten to tarnish the corporate sponsors' affection for their new golden boy. |
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| The Committee met with the broadcaster to, again, threaten to pull its sponsorship of the network's Republican forum. |
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| Both were wars of choice, waged against tyrannical regimes that did not immediately threaten the United States. |
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| A lack of aid and an abundance of problems threaten millions in Southern Africa. |
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| It could also threaten what has been the golden goose for NBC, the Games on prime time. |
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| That imbalance can threaten a team, especially if the seniors are good players. |
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| Despite two restraining orders and a spell in jail, he continued to threaten her, and was planning to kill her when he was finally arrested. |
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| Offshore drilling, they argued, would damage coral reefs and mangrove swamps and threaten endangered sea life. |
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| Medical experts said the number of women who threaten suicide is very small, and they can be treated psychologically. |
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| In fact, some stretches of this season threaten the telemovie in terms of sheer darkness. |
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| They threaten to strike, create picket lines you can't cross, retaliate against scabs, and all the rest. |
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| One approach is to threaten rogue corporations with the revocation of their charters. |
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| Using the private message system or e-mail form to harass or threaten other members is bannable on first offense. |
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| The surging ocean heaves itself up on the low rock platforms to threaten the belayer on some of the climbs. |
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| In many games, he was known to have mock battles with his trusty sword and threaten the opposing team's mascots. |
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| For years I have heard the grandees of Oxford, Cambridge and London threaten a dash for freedom. |
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| Instead, he focuses on the push-pull forces that simultaneously bind Johnny and Sarah's family and threaten to tear them apart. |
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| It's not just diabetes and heart disease that threaten to overwhelm us if we continue to eat a high fat diet. |
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| Residents' life styles may contribute to the deterioration of the environment, and threaten the sustainability of the green spaces. |
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| Invasive species threaten New Jersey's agricultural resources through lost production and marketability for agricultural products. |
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| The ritual humiliation and abuse begin immediately and rapidly threaten to spiral out of control. |
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| Yet their level dropped and helped Japan begin to threaten with their right-back Akira Kaji finding space behind Gilberto. |
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| If you can't threaten someone with a vendetta, then you have very little leverage in negotiations. |
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| Loss of abilities related to manual dexterity may affect work performance and may threaten or end essential career options. |
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| Public assertions of such discreditable conduct threaten reputation and professional livelihood. |
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| All these changes threaten social dislocation, hitting the poorest and most vulnerable hardest. |
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| Along the way, there are some moments that threaten to take the entire enterprise completely off the rails. |
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| Yet his exceptionality captured on canvas, the very extremity he paints into being, seems to threaten us all. |
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| But you threaten them, and you'd be surprised, sometimes all a guy needs is a good talking-to. |
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| The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image. |
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| Although Cascade volcanoes do not erupt frequently, they threaten major populations and developments. |
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| It was two tyre ruts in the machair with a central ridge of grass and small boulders to threaten his sump. |
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| In 1998, Dr. Randolph Kelly was ordered by a Texas judge not to threaten or harm his daughter or his estranged wife. |
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| The development, he maintains, would also threaten the presence of wildlife including yellowhammers, badgers and dormice. |
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| Oil drilling would likely threaten and compromise B.C. industries, such as tourism, and commercial and recreational fishing. |
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| Her legislated Church was in place to secure outward conformity, and she firmly resisted any changes which might threaten this aim. |
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| Games which break the constitution, threaten national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity will be banned. |
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| From a modern perspective it is hard to imagine how a sport like lawn bowling could threaten social order. |
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| It did not threaten the local population because the lava flow descended into the Virunga national park. |
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| But the more the critics threaten to leave, the more difficult it will be for them to change course. |
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| Bogus offshore banking sites can threaten to report you to your tax authority if you question their methods. |
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| We cannot make a policy of ignoring consistently replicable results solely on the ground that they threaten some favourite views. |
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| The purpose of his attendance at the rally was simply to threaten Londoners further. |
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| If the U.S. pushes too hard, Japan can threaten to repatriate the assets, leaving the U.S. economy in dire straits. |
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| We want to send a clear message to management that they cannot single out and threaten union members. |
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| The bottom line is that it is amateurish and will threaten the safety of our children. |
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| The poor state of roads has already forced some industries to threaten relocating outside the State. |
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| The question is, can the federal courts come into the state of Alabama and threaten fines to release our inalienable rights? |
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| Australians love America, but any worldly person knows you do not threaten Aussies. |
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| These limits seemed to threaten the success of the family's on-farm store, but they plunged ahead. |
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| Fish farmers are licensed to kill predators that threaten their nets, pens and fish. |
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| Yet commanders quickly grasped the ability to use aircraft or airships to threaten deep behind the front line. |
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| Enemies of the state are used in experiments to develop new generations of chemical and biological weapons that threaten the world. |
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| Such policies threaten the interest of the plutocracy that runs this county and controls both the Democrats and Republicans. |
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| Such a buildup could badly upset the balance of power in the region and threaten the peace, Reich asserts. |
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| Aside from causing pregnant cows to abort, this would threaten the state's brucellosis-free status, and hence its vital livestock industry. |
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| The economy is stagnating and the effects of a war threaten to cause violent social convulsions. |
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| Some will use print to publish well-researched news stories that threaten the powerful, some will write pamphlets, others lies and libels. |
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| The Soviets had exploded their first atomic device in 1949, but they lacked credible delivery systems to threaten the United States directly. |
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| Sectarian tensions had already been running high, and the abductions threaten to provoke armed conflict. |
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| A vast humanitarian operation could threaten their gainful isolationism and turn the population against its tormentors. |
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| He had been called before this August gathering to answer charges of heresy, which could threaten his very life. |
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| This roster of renegades may not be as familiar to us as the European gypsy moth, but they threaten our forests just as surely. |
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| Our unsustainable senior-citizen entitlement programs threaten the medium-term and long-term macroeconomic future. |
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| Surely, people would not knowingly live in ways that threaten polar bears or coral reefs. |
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| Once the moment of euphoria had passed, would not life threaten to be as empty as the drained glass of celebratory champagne? |
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| Having completely denied the White House press corps access, the administration isn't exactly in a position to threaten to withhold access. |
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| However, disagreements within the party threaten to slow the pace of change. |
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| The eurozone's leaders realise that although in isolation, a Grexit does not threaten the single currency, its reverberations do. |
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| In areas where spring frosts threaten developing buds and flowers, plant where air drainage is adequate, such as midway down a gentle slope. |
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| Could it the situation really deteriorate to the point where China would threaten Taiwan with physical destruction? |
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| The porkers damage property, threaten domestic pig farms, and may be creating human health risks, critics say. |
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| The motive is to destroy all those in the south who might threaten the oil revenues that sustain the regime's grip. |
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| All of these threaten the vital demonising propaganda that makes violence possible. |
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| This is a serious development which could threaten free elections and representative democracy itself. |
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| Among the six steps the media industry groups said the government could take was refraining from any action that may threaten freedom of expression or freedom of the press. |
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| Much less should they instigate riots to threaten the people. |
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| Such an outcome would threaten any standards for weblog API's and syndication far more than internecine struggles within the existing weblog community ever could. |
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| Only that link can effect the enormous changes needed and thwart the dark forces of intolerance that today threaten the fragile freedoms of the South. |
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| Studio executives say the counterfeits and free downloads off the Internet threaten to undercut their industry, as it did with the music industry. |
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| He would fly into a fit of rage and threaten to kill his father or mother, and would froth at the mouth whenever they attempted to force him to obey a command. |
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| Robert Rubin, on the other hand, believed it probably wasn't such a great idea for the world's largest debtor to threaten to repay its creditors with funny money. |
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| The proselytizers could point to the Canadian Charter of Rights as the secular scripture that protects any religious expression that doesn't threaten freedom and democracy. |
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| This disease has been a major factor in the decline of the threatened Mojave population of the desert tortoise and could threaten the survival of the gopher tortoise, too. |
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| Sky-high forecourt prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have prompted veteran fuel protesters to threaten motorway go-slows and refinery blockades in the coming week. |
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| He clears out the silt and mud that are clogging the rivers and dykes, and cuts and scythes the reeds and sedge that threaten to reclaim the broads, selling them for thatch. |
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| Actions like these would threaten businesses and discomfit drivers. |
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| To this end, they kidnap Arnie's sweet, doe-eyed little daughter in her dungarees and pink sweater, and threaten to kill her if he doesn't do what they say. |
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| The thesis demonstrates the potential of divorce to threaten individual men's exercise of patriarchal authority and their masculine identities in very concrete ways. |
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| When we destroy ecosystems and extinguish species, we degrade the greatest heritage this planet has to offer and thereby threaten our own existence. |
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| Elbowroom requires rules, tolerance asks for the elimination of powers, which threaten tolerance. |
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| They should not be using the Internet to spread gossip, bully or threaten others. |
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| Augmenting vehicle control when things threaten to come unglued is a vehicle stability control program and traction control. |
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| Or we can care less about who's watching, stand up and shout from the rooftops, make waves and push buttons, threaten the status quo. |
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| They used their weapons to threaten the hermit, and the poor man had to reveal the location of the hidden treasure room. |
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| During the statement of Hollywood «blendes» neither anesthetizing injections nor meeting with a drill do not threaten to a patient. |
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| The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief. |
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| Occupational health and safety in the fishing industry: Rising sea levels and increased storminess threaten the safety of fishers. |
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| At times you may encounter those who seem to threaten your smooth path as you roll along through life. |
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| They wanted to give with this declaration measures, so never again an iniquitous regime can threaten the world. |
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| Word processors also threaten to bury the office typewriter, just as the electronic calculator has buried the mechanical adding machine. |
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| To make matters worse, she falls in love. Her lust for life and appetite for adventure now threaten to be her downfall. |
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| Russia and China continued to hold out against a resolution that would threaten sanctions. |
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| The ATP will threaten to nuke the TP, totally unaware that the TP also possesses nukes set to launch on warning. |
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| In such circumstances, they will have nowhere to turn to in such a serious situation which may threaten their job, for example. |
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| Other species not yet facing extinction are diminishing in numbers so much that their unregulated use may threaten their survival in the future. |
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| Or, in Professor Gates' case, I can't decide whether to politely ask you to leave my house, or threaten to blitzkrieg your career. |
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| Nor did they threaten the loss of American military or economic support after the slaughter began. |
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| In its opinion, some aspects of the agreement go against the rules of international trade and threaten the Community's legitimate interests. |
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| Rising sea levels threaten to swamp coastal groundwater aquifers with brackish water-making them unfit for human consumption. |
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| In addition, there were some grounds for believing that counsel might threaten to withdraw from a case if no extra hours were authorized. |
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| This item should provide up-to-date information on all factors which are likely to affect or threaten the property. |
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| The villains are the pure-blooded absolutists who threaten to overturn it all. |
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| They called on the Zimbabwean police to allow freedom of expression without violence and to arrest those who perpetrate or threaten violence. |
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| The amicus curiae argued that no government may sign contracts that threaten human rights obligations. |
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| Financial condition and hence, the magnitude of the conditions and events that may threaten it, also varies among insurers. |
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| Misread radiographs and pathology specimens, laboratory errors, and mistakes made in administering radiation therapy also threaten the safety of patients. |
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| The investment surge appears to have reflated the housing bubble, which nascent slowing and new lending restrictions threaten to burst. |
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| Modern culture, with its emphasis on material gain, instant gratification, and continual diversion threaten the life of the spirit. |
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| Originally venues for the avant-garde, they nowadays threaten to steal the show from traditional houses of culture. |
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| In the longer term, fuel prices will bump up inflation still further and threaten the whole EU area with an economic setback. |
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| People with criminal convictions, or who threaten Canada's security, take priority over failed refugee claimants and those who overstay a visit. |
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| Threats they threaten to hurt you or someone you care about, to break up with you, to hurt themselves or to commit suicide. |
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| They take him hostage and threaten to drown him until he is incontinently pleading for his life on a beach. |
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| Furthermore, any waste material that does threaten to fall inside the component is sucked out by vacuum. |
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| As the first rains will not be slow in coming, further disasters threaten in the middle of winter. |
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| Act submissively towards all animals in the forest and do not exhibit any behaviour that may threaten or harass the animal. |
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| Another, more subtle form of forced labour takes place when employers threaten workers with losing their job if they do not work overtime. |
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| They also take up a lot of space, pose a hazard to power lines, and threaten to overgrow roadways, pipelines, parklands and recreation areas. |
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| Finally, challenges of capacity also threaten the justness of the international investment system. |
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| A con artist is unlikely to threaten or use physical violence if you say no. |
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| It is important that situations which threaten or imperil these be met in meaningful activities undertaken in a spirit of preventive action. |
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| The closure will leave about 100 people without jobs and it will threaten the future of the entire shopping mall as the Friendly Grocer is the current anchor tenant. |
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| Corporations can threaten to take business away from an underwriter or, more typically, they can simply bar an analyst from a conference. |
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| World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it. |
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| The problem in all this is that, while democracy is necessary, demagoguery is one of the dangers that threaten it. |
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| In Indonesia, oil palms threaten human beings, orang-outans and the Indian elephant. |
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| Instability can threaten the plan's viability if defecting villages find alternative solutions too quickly. |
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| They post asinine notes on the internet, chant at concerts, and even threaten physical violence. |
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| There are frequent reports of soldiers carrying their official weapons when off duty for illegal hunting or to threaten rivals in karaoke bars. |
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| Never in their efforts to keep the plant alive did GM trade unionists threaten any boycotting. |
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| But he takes a stab at understanding why some relationships did not threaten the social order, and thus escaped the long arm of the law, and others did not. |
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| Poaching and derangement pressures directly threaten the later and new pressures are arising with petrol prospecting in the region. |
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| They cannot threaten a state of Europe with war, with a casus belli, while we talk about letting them in. |
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| It is also an offence to threaten another's property or threaten to kill, poison or injure his or her animal or bird. |
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| In some cases, these trade junkets pave the way for lucrative mining, oil and gas contracts that threaten local communities. |
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| The aim of CITES is to ensure that international trade of wild animal and plant species does not threaten their survival. |
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| Gangs relentlessly hunt down deviants and mutants, believing they threaten the purity of mankind and lead the world to destruction. |
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| War-drums threaten to drown out both law and compassion, and people are tempted to conclude that another Gulf War is now inevitable. |
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| Together at this year's conference, we will focus on key areas that threaten the health and well being of our children and youth. |
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| We can use our jaws for purposes other than to maim or threaten our adversaries. |
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| At the same time, of course, academic freedom cannot be a cloak for activities that genuinely threaten the security of Canada. |
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| This also means that if we ultimately want to act and threaten with violence, we must have proof. |
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| Yes, the party wants to squelch cultural expressions that threaten its own continuity and survival. |
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| It requires trends that threaten the future quality of life to be curbed if not reversed. |
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| After use, submunitions that have failed to explode threaten civilians who come into contact with them, either accidentally or deliberately. |
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| She had no intention of doing so, but she could threaten him. |
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| Anyone willing to threaten war over a joke is clearly not playing with a full deck. |
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| River flooding could close highways, potentially top levees and threaten some homes and businesses. |
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| He said he had to threaten to resign to prevent the promised introduction of the first patient waiting times for treatment being abandoned. |
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| If he spoke out, he said, the management would threaten to call the US immigration department. |
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| And Gordon Brown has made a bad situation worse – for himself too, as MPs threaten to resign or resort to legal advice. |
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| However, several challenges persist which may threaten the stability of the country. |
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| Fraud increases card payment fees and may even threaten the acceptability of the instrument. |
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| There was a growing tendency to threaten the use of such weapons for political purposes, and a real risk that they might be deployed. |
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| They even threaten to leave them if they do not sever their links with conflict and war. |
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| Sadly we have entered a very dangerous period that will threaten the stability of the region and international peace and security. |
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| Violence against them and harmful gender norms continue to drive the epidemic, and threaten the health and human rights of both men and women. |
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| Please act quickly to ensure that practices that threaten human dignity and that Canadians clearly do not want are prohibited. |
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| They may tend to increase disparities, weaken social bonds and threaten cultural cohesion. |
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| But transparency and accountability may be met with serious resistance when they threaten existing power relations. |
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| Member states should avoid transfers that will be used for violating human rights and threaten the national security of states. |
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| Subsequent ice jams threaten bridges and can close major highways. |
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| Popularity need not be equated with the destruction of intellectual values and, by the same token, accessibility need not threaten traditional archival and custodial roles. |
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| Protests have had very little impact on a Government whose objective is to build a world competitive economy as long as it does not threaten the monocratic power of the Party. |
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| How could such a sweet little thing threaten a big boofhead like him? |
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| But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda. |
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| Which city are they going to threaten to obliterate this time? |
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| The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank. |
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| Don't browbeat, denigrate, insult or threaten the opposing team. |
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| In a stuffy room on the third floor of an ageing hotel behind an ice cream parlour in a smart Lahore suburb yesterday sat the men who threaten to bring Pakistan to its knees. |
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| Three superstorms threaten to end Western civilization as we know it. |
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| The dangers posed to them by superstores and online sellers don't just threaten some quaint form of distributing goods, they imperil the fabric of neighborhoods and towns. |
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| Moreover, the causality condition appears to threaten an infinite regress. |
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| A whole range of experiences generates fear of crime, from physical injury to experiences of minor incivilities that threaten ontological security and belonging. |
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| These hostile sparks seemed however at first only to threaten for a moment, they promised to end in smoke, and in the following year the French entered into a truce with the Spaniards. |
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| So when we progress, when we affirm ourselves, we should not threaten them. |
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| The subsequent investigation of this shooting was what prompted a blackwater manager to threaten a State Department official. |
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| The kind of verbal threats the civil law considers wrongful are those that unconditionally threaten immediate bodily harm. |
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| Hints of desaturated color threaten the pure achromatic palette. |
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| In fact, it may threaten the NFL record for the coldest game in the history of the league. |
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| Once upon a time, books were meant to upset the apple cart, to make politicians nervous, threaten the status quo, shake up our expectations, make us question things anew. |
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| Seevakumaran uploaded six videos to YouTube on March 17, just hours before he would threaten his roommate and commit suicide. |
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| By the incorporation of these adscititious elements, such elements, at crucial moments, threaten to compromise the rhythmic integrity of entire pieces. |
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| It is also not clear how extensive the involvement of agents provocateurs, or police disguised as protesters, is in moments like this that threaten to tear apart the movement. |
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| Because ash clouds drift with prevailing winds for many days and thousands of miles, they potentially threaten air corridors that are far removed from the erupting volcano. |
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| Do you remember the scene in which the mayor and his cronies take Dmitri to this desolate place and threaten him with a gun? |
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| In other words, these deep-layer abdominals are designed to minimize motion of the torso and back and correct positions that threaten sound alignment. |
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| Blunsdon may be rejoicing at the recent decision to build a bypass for the village but compulsory purchase orders for the land required could threaten a number of businesses. |
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| Toeing the government line has allowed film-makers to avoid revealing the humanity of their subjects, lest a breath of truth threaten the house of cards that is the drug war. |
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| Dehlin believed the decision to threaten him and Kelly with excommunication came from high within the LDS Church. |
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| Sensational and often reckless reports in the press threaten the fairness of a trial. |
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| To threaten these fundamentals over a disagreement about insurance policy seems crazy to Democrats. |
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| My crops of grass and brambles threaten her more carefully tended beans, lettuces, garlic and artichokes, and the Martock Bean Enclosure must look like a sick joke to her. |
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| In shantytown, the titular slum of Buenos Aires is the backdrop for a series of killings that threaten the entire community. |
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| It appears to consider internal policy only when parliamentary committees flag up press behaviour that is not to their liking and threaten sanctions. |
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| He said he could not, and the Allies, attacking on the western front and encountering fierce opposition, started to threaten sanctions, which Russia could not afford. |
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| If we threaten them with economic sanctions then they're going to stop it. |
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| The only response from Washington has been to threaten economic sanctions. |
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| Dr. hern has had people shoot through his office door and threaten the life of his very elderly mother. |
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| More girls are reporting their boyfriends stalk them via text message or threaten to humiliate them with social media. |
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| She was just going to say she was manhandled by a porter with a penchant for egg sandwiches and, if that didn't work, threaten to have their royal appointment removed. |
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| He had a bad temper, and would constantly threaten me and the baby. |
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| Not to curse the stage directions and threaten to send the stage manager to a labor camp. |
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| Boehner has no sense of imperium, and no apparent ability to threaten or intimidate rank-and-file members into falling in line. |
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| They took also a Vessel of Marooners that belonged to the Bay and carried to Campeche Town, where they erected a mighty Gallows, and threaten to hang them all. |
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| Ongoing tensions between Moscow and Kiev could threaten those supply lines, leaving Russians there stranded. |
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| To gain a meaningful nuclear deterrent, a nation doesn't have to threaten the massive thermonuclear response major nuclear powers have been doing for so many years. |
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| Former CNDD-FDD President Hussein Radjabu was detained on 27 April 2007 on charges of conspiring to threaten the internal security of the State and for slandering the Head of State. |
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| Regional escalation, unmanageable migratory flows, disruption of energy supply and trade routes, the creation of breeding grounds for terrorist and criminal other activity threaten the security of the European Union itself. |
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| These shortfalls perpetuate poverty and threaten food security by hindering the transportation of produce to marketplaces and outlying food deficit regions. |
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| The same Maiwolf holding company apparently also owns the debt collection companies which then proceed to harass, bully and threaten businesses to pay up. |
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| There are also reinfections in war-torn Somalia and Syria that threaten to break out into areas once free of the scourge. |
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| So long as he does not repudiate this principle, and offers his allegiance to the present leader as the political head of state, he does not threaten the stability of the régime. |
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| It would also have the evidence needed to deal with callers who become abusive and threaten staff, or with staff who treat claimants disrespectfully. |
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| And it will threaten to throw him into a spiral of suicidal despair. |
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| For instance, if rates were to climb enough to threaten the rebound in housing, stocks might start to sing a different tune, market strategists say. |
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| It would be a solution for a few years but it's threaten too: one estimates the reserve at a little bit more than a century, which is better than oil but not infinite. |
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| The Alemanni were routed, forced back into Germany, and did not threaten Roman territory for many years afterwards. |
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| The only organised opposition are the neo-fascists of the Jobbik party on the far right, suggesting that the opposition on the streets this week might challenge Orbán but not really threaten him. |
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| Evolutionary traps can threaten populations and species if they result in widespread reductions in survival and reproduction. |
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| These attitudes and behaviors, if allowed to persist, will destabilize Dominican life and mission and threaten the intrinsic nature and character of our Order envisioned by St. Dominic. |
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| Burning would cause their vital force to disappear and threaten their passage to the after world. |
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| Prolonging such a situation would threaten the integrity of the Treaty. |
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| They threaten to overwhelm the entire reform agenda. |
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| Undermanned training systems create delays in the training programs that are aggravating to new soldiers and officers, and they threaten to undermine the modest gains realized to date. |
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| We can no longer threaten them and force them to keep quiet. |
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| If we allow our defence to fall away and our Alliance to fall apart, the Soviet Union could be tempted in a crisis to use force against us, or at least to threaten us with force. |
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| The Roman Empire was tolerant of diverse cultures and religious practises, even allowing them on a few occasions to threaten Roman authority. |
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| The intent is to provide advance information to target potentially high-risk shipments that could threaten public health and the security of the food chain by an act of bioterrorism. |
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| Scientific and technological advances are creating new opportunities on a scale previously unimagined, even as they threaten to destroy the very foundation of human life. |
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| It can include objects, which can be used as weapons such as slingshot, rocks, pocket knives or a screwdriver, if displayed to threaten or intimidate. |
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| The continuation of such loan, however, would threaten to unbalance the funding of other Group operations and is therefore not a sustainable option. |
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| The new Tokugawa rulers of Japan, however, began to fear it would threaten social stability and result in a Western invasion. |
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| This regime was being enfeebled completely. It was not possible for Iraq to threaten the world at large or the United States for that matter or its own population. |
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| The two men also share a similar long-legged and rangy physique, as well as the ability to break forward from midfield and threaten opposing defences. |
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| But the signing of a free trade agreement could threaten this. |
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| While tropical army ants have a fearsome reputation, the kind you find in Britain are unlikely to threaten anything larger than a caterpillar. |
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| They can also be used to attack in ways that incapacitate or threaten the agricultural sector, or can be modified with or without genetic engineering to defeat current vaccines and medical treatment. |
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| The magnitude and extent of the global mnemotechnical systems threaten humanity far more dramatically than any previous period in human history. |
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| In Sebastopol the Ukrainian corvette Ternopil has been surrounded by commandos and Spetsnaz who threaten to storm the vessel. |
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| And besides, it is not atomic bombs that threaten the world, but Western morals and culture declining in values. |
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| This ensures that unions and employers cannot induce, coerce or threaten workers into voting a particular way or use undue influence to affect the outcome of a vote. |
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| The state has an obligation to take action against individuals who hamper or threaten the work of human rights defenders, whether or not the state has ordered, connived in or acquiesced to such abuses. |
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| On the one hand, the new economy clearly sets in motion pressures that threaten the long-established rights of workers to decent working conditions. |
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| A Private Member's Bill sponsored by Conservative MP Ken Epp could chip away at women's constitutional rights and threaten their access to safe and legal abortion. |
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| Likewise, rural residents, long plagued by large coyote and wolf populations that threaten pets, children and livestock businesses have always been left to fend for themselves. |
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| This classic game is turn-based, so you can take your time planning your moves. Watch yourself: burning red tiles threaten to set your library aflame. |
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| Our age has become aware of many different dangers that threaten the future of our societies and the future of the entire planet: epidemics, violence, foretold ecological disasters. |
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| Such a view would threaten affirmative action, an institution prized by leftists, and treated inconsistently by a court that is as divided as public opinion is on the subject. |
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| The serious dangers with which phenomena such as violence, doping and commercial excesses threaten its moral values, image and prestige pervert its very nature and change its educative and health-promoting function. |
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| The more citizens are distrustful of their leaders, judges and civil servants, the more the exercise of freedom seems to threaten the cohesion of society. |
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