How To Use Threat In A Sentence

I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.

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It had multiple shooters, multiple locations, mobile threats, willingness to fight the first responders and follow-on SWAT/commando units, well-equipped and well-trained operatives, and a willingness to die. Cliff Schecter: The Terrorist and the Terror Watch List
The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung.
The conflict threatens to spill over into neighbouring regions.
People are becoming more sensitized to the dangers threatening the environment.
The threatened uniform typically consists of a khaki military tunic with trousers, though in Scottish regiments the trousers are usually tartan or replaced by a kilt.
Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
‘The paramilitaries have graffitied threats against us on the walls.’
This seemingly innocuous phrase was actually a veiled threat. THE GUARDSMEN
Though the threat of some biohazards receded for workers in health-care and other human services, the threat of others, such as hepatitis B virus, grew.
For an uncritical mentalist, no such indeterminacy threatens.
Despite the threat of war, people went about their work as usual.
The ministry says the tiny amounts of iodine-131 pose no threat to public health.
She said two of the remaining three, unsighted threatened species had not been spotted since 1965 while the other had gone undetected since 1891.
You've also threatened, or you've also mentioned that my relationship threatens my country and again I find that such a huge leap of illogic.
Too much sodium makes the body excrete calcium, threatening bone density and strength.
Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
Now the agitation in the country and the violent disorder it threatened could be directed against the Government.
Last Thursday, campus officials received a bomb threat that was sent over the university e-mail system.
In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
The national park is under renewed threat from road-building schemes.
And after rewinding the film and watching it without any adrenaline to threaten our objectivity, it became pretty clear that during this year of epic passing, San Francisco played one of the greatest defensive games in playoff history. OK, Now That Was a Defense
They also have abandoned past pledges and now threaten first use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
Experts warn overdevelopment is threatening the golden seashores in Hainan island, the popular sub-tropical tourist destination.
Nevertheless, it has to be recognised that several interests may feel threatened by an advertising ban.
A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
The actress hit back at claims that she had threatened a member of staff.
Your stepson could have been left in a dysregulated state whereby he is primed to be constantly hypervigilant to threat and to respond. Times, Sunday Times
But the true nature of his dilemma constantly threatened to extinguish it.
Threatened abortion The term threatened abortion is used  when a pregnancy is complicated by vaginal bleeding before the 20th week. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The main weakness of these republican reforms was that they threatened fundamental change but didn't fully implement it.
One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said. Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
Meanwhile taking strong note of the police behaviour towards peaceful students demonstration leaders of the central university andolan samiti have threatened to intensify their agitation in support of their demands. NC-Congress coalition government responsible for the agitation on Central University issue
Suddenly the man brought a gun out and threatened the driver with it.
Journalists in Shropshire are threatening to ballot for industrial action claiming managers are refusing to answer their questions about job cuts. Strike threat at the Shropshire Star
Men have been unwearied in their efforts to obscure the plain, simple meaning of the Scriptures, and to make them contradict their own testimony; but like the ark upon the billowy deep, the word of God outrides the storms that threaten it with destruction. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
The debacle threatens to stymie the country's dynamic agricultural sector.
But despite the favorable atmosphere, police remained on alert for possible security threats on the session, the officer said.
The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.
The threat now goes well beyond the African continent. Times, Sunday Times
They have been miniaturized so as to make them less threatening or intimidating to their small owners.
It was an instance of the great wickedness of the Jews that they were thus enraged; and this in Deuteronomy is the matter of a threatening. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
In 1821 the Kakanfo's threat to Abomey and his capability to defend Oyo territory ended in his rout by the Dahomey army, and by 1830 Shabe had been razed and the cavalry no more to be seen.
Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
The guard growled out a warning,threatening the prisoners with his gun.
A memo from March 1988 revealed the project was to be ditched because it "contravened" statements from ministers saying UFOs did not pose a threat to the UK. Undefined
One plausible scenario, he said, was that he had indeed threatened the cops with a dummy gun.
The Soviets had exploded their first atomic device in 1949, but they lacked credible delivery systems to threaten the United States directly.
What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors.
The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats.
The other gang members threatened to get him if he went to the police.
Although the work in the compiler is not finished, Wiz also takes time to create some new spells to help common folk to deal with magical threats. Reflective Surface - The Wizardry Compiled
One of the biggest dangers to commuters at the time was the constant threat of pickpockets and other petty thieves preying upon unsuspecting victims.
While the Kelly gang appears to have posed a genuine threat to the authority of the ruling colonials, the film prefers to focus on the adventures of the outlaws rather than an increasingly desperate establishment.
I do not pretend to know what combination of threats and cajolements they offered, but they obviously succeeded.
The world yet again faces another mind-boggling issue which threatens the existence of human beings on planet earth.
These included repeated punchings, kickings, beatings with a baseball bat and truncheon, being urinated on and threatened with a syringe and blowtorch.
Organizations have traditionally relied on structure and threats of insecurity to control the behaviour of employees.
The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.
They admitted that they gave false evidence, but said that they were under duress, having been threatened with violence by various men, one of whom was in the public gallery at the original trial.
Now this remote region in northwest Siberia is under threat from global warming. Times, Sunday Times
This type of cost cutting threatens the health and welfare of local residents.
In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.
He continues to govern -- fighting off legal challenges to his sovereign immunity and threats to his ruling majority -- until he dies in office.
It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike.
In a threatened workplace by far the best answer is for workers to occupy the factory or plant.
Pieces-of-Eight and shouting out "yarr, matey!" may have gone the way of the Dodo, but piracy is still a real threat on the world's seas. Archive 2008-03-01
Many women achievers appear to pose a threat to their male colleagues.
Instead of being authentic art, music becomes a thing to be bought and sold, which debases the very meaning of the music and defangs the threat.
Director of the Scottish Tourist Forum, Ivan Broussine, warned that archaic attitudes were threatening the health of the tourist industry.
It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
I cannot accept the approach that cisgendered women's feminist empowerment would be threatened by accepting that there are (many) transgendered women that are as much female as any other woman.
More than 200 of the top 500 U.S. designations went to areas where significant populations of endangered and threatened species live, such as piping plovers and Kirtland's warblers.
As the water rose it eddied into whirlpools that threatened to sweep her away.
Chimpy: Listen, I know in my heart your rook was a threat. Your Right Hand Thief
The greatest threats to marine mammals are being caught in fishing nets or being struck by shipping vessels, although for the Yangtze river dolphin, pollution is a major contributor.
The chemical heating process in producing the so-called pomace oil from olive residues may result in the carcinogen, but pure oil, turned out by mechanically squeezing olive fruits, presented no health threat, the minister said.
Illegal hunting is threatening the survival of the species.
There is no evidence of any self harm or of threatening or aggressive behaviour towards others.
A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
My boyfriend was threatening to finish with me.
Critics say the bill threatens some of the most ecologically unique areas of the Tongass forest, namely karst limestone habitat, as well as two subspecies: the Queen Charlotte goshawk and the Alexander Archipelago wolf. Mongabay.com News
He remains strong in the polls as Canada has suffered less from the worldwide Quebec, with 23% of the national population, its distinctive French-language ( "francophone") culture, angered the western provinces by wielding undue influence on the Federal Government and its repeated threats to national unity. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
When the ship fired its polaron beam at one mine, others within that defensive sphere reacted to the threat, homing in on the source of the beam and attacking it en masse. Creative Couplings
They say illegal ‘pirate’ fishing and non-cooperation from key countries pose the main threat to the bird's survival.
He has become so good on surfaces other than clay that he's a real threat anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
It said diseases like rabies were a'real threat '. The Sun
Drake's eyes made a quick scan of the alley to ensure that no other threat lurked nearby, then his gaze returned to the man.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
Tokyo yesterday announced planes to develop its first spy satellite in response to the North Korean missile threat.
Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats.
Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
He studies the Forest for a time longer, until the sun begins to rise above the deadland and fields to his left, but the silent presence and lack of overt threat does not change. The Magi'i Of Cyador
He, however, believes that the biggest threat to the rhinos is that they could be poached, although the state has employed several guards to watch over them.
BANGOR, Maine - A local man with a long criminal history allegedly threatened a store clerk with a knife on Monday night after she told him he was seen on the store's video surveillance system stealing an item, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said on Tuesday. BangorDailyNews.com - News
No belief flowered in the grim Elasian face, but the agonizer's threatening touch lifted. Firestorm
Litter poses a threat to dolphins, whales, turtles and seabirds by entanglement in and ingestion of plastics.
Bravery also requires recognizing when standing up to these threats is reasonable and appropriate, and it requires acting on one's recognition.
His lifestyle was too threatening, his irresponsibility too damning to make him sympathetic.
A threat also exists in the form of steganography, which is the insertion of an encrypted message in a larger image file.
The same logic applies to our work to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Marine habitats throughout the insular Pacific are increasingly threatened by human activity.
A bigger threat may loom on the media landscape.
The threatened strike has been called off.
And this is the only symptom whereby we find out and discern the nature of threatened impendent judgments. The Sermons of John Owen
Even more important, they might fail to notice a menace or threat which if not guarded against might harm or even destroy them, their regime, and possibly even the state as well.
Where vegetation composition is altered and floral richness threatened, the results will ultimately be felt by us all.
The contaminative problem of environmental hormone have threatened the continuous exist and multiply of human.
His words slowly relaxed her threatening attitude.
The less attention received by U.S. officials and policy, the less blame Chávez can off-load on Washington, and the less he can claim that America poses a threat. Doug Bandow: Defusing Venezuela's Nuclear Threat?
Have a guess from which one all the stick and threats come from?? on September 27, 2007 at 11: 31 am | Reply timbo Blood Red Shoes « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully.
Less threatening contents named by Mr Milburn included sucrose, cocoa, butter, liquorice root and citric acid.
The threat did not have its desired effect. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
And he shows that all those comminations and threats which we read in the Scriptures of the New Testament in no way belong to the nature of the Gospel properly so called, but are the confirmation of the law.
The General's words were perceived as a threat by neighbouring countries.
But the threat of a tsunami is almost negligible because the event was not tsunamigenic. Rogue Wave
Climate change threatens Emerald Isle with water shortage. A new report by the Irish American Climate Project says that global warming may cause Ireland's "rich, green scenery" to "fade to brown.
On February 26th 2009, tenecia wrote: yall need 2 chill out wit da death threats cause yall niggas dont know wat went on wit them Chris Brown Death Threats Linked To Women’s Rights Group
Yet another, though less obvious, militarist threat was now growing.
An eight-year-old boy threw coal cinders to drive away dogs threatening his friends.
Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats.
Cancer has become the most threatening malady next to cardiovascular diseases.
Tax deficient California's treatment of multinational firms threatens to provoke a global tax war.
As painful as side effects are, however, they do not really call into question the basic logic of the threat we face and how we should respond to it.
The plane crash involves Dave with drug dealers, killers and federal agents, all of whom threaten his peace and family.
Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Give \'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Give-\'Em-Hell Harry Reid today did a great service to America today by standing up, shutting down the Senate and demanding answers about how and why the Bush administration lied to America about the Iraq "threat" in the lead up to the war. Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions
But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
The gas company threatened to cut them off if they didn't pay the bill.
The roof is typically threatened by burning brands or embers lofted by a nearby fire.
I took out my last barracan, as some precaution against the threatening clouds. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
They advanced upon me in a threatening manner.
No one will kotow to you, or serenade you on a koto; rather, you'll be threatened with celotomy or colotomy, equally uncomfortable, or with banishment to Cotonou or Cotopani. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2
It comes amid growing fears of the threat of drones to passenger planes. The Sun
Of these options hiring a prostitute is the least threatening to marriage but it's the only option which is illegal. Archive 2008-03-01
Onchocerciasis eliminated from west Africa: Officials from the World Health Organization last week celebrated the elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness, as a public health threat in west Africa.
Mr. FITZSIMONS (of Penn.) did not recollect whether he moved or seconded the motion, but if he had, he should not withdraw it on account of the threat of calling the yeas and nays. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
Segregated public bathrooms threaten people's safety, job security and access to education.
Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job.
Our future response to these and other threats will determine whether most cetacean species survive.
Investigators Thursday evening found a dish containing what appeared to be antifreeze, which is poisonous to animals, on the property of a woman some neighbors say has threatened to poison cats and other animals that come into her yard. Cincinnati.Com - All Local News
There is a lay-by on each carriageway, but 70 mph roads have those as well without anyone complaining that they represent a safety threat.
The report said he used harassment and threats to intimidate television journalists.
The trinkets they were wearing around their necks and wrists gave off a glimmer in the dim light - the sky had turned into a mass of sullen grey threatening a persistent downpour.
But since 2001 the threat of terrorism and xenophobia has made immigration harder.
The ensuing scandal threatened, in the words of Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein, to "unravel" the remaining 60 "War" cases. Peter Lance: Feds Move Terrorist Close to Key Murder Witness
Conquering new markets while preserving existing ones threatens brand loyalty.
I thought it dangerously late in the season for controlled heather burning, a real threat to ground nesting birds like red grouse and dunlin. Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
He threatened to give particular employees the kicking of their lives.
Smoothly we left the ground, raised our undercarts, and climbed away into that overcast, threatening sky.
Patient Zero is a fast paced read, featuring Joe Ledger, a no-nonsense, no-hesitation fighter who is recruited for the Department of Military Science (DMS) to fight a new threat: a bio-terrorism agent that affects its victims in a way that makes them resemble zombies. Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » April
A violent, promiscuous, out-of-control teen who hated her parents, truanted to have sex with boys and used threats to make other children do what she wanted. Disordered Minds
Does active military involvement in defense policymaking actually threaten civilian control?
And the owner of the property was no doubt a scallywag, trying to defraud the lessee of his money, and threatening to ‘throw [his] things on the street’.
In some countries the great tradition of the afternoon siesta is under threat or has even been banned.
Several whole windows would have to be blasted out before a plane would depressurize enough to threaten life within the cabin.
This little lady can belt out a tune and is the triple threat. The Sun
Canadian Tire didn't like it and threatened to sue him, so he took it down but still owns the URL.
As an object of fascination and repulsion to the two men who represent the center of authority in their respective narratives, Carmen spells a threatening other, a dark figure that resists assimilation and endangers masculine power.
If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
These are ominous signs of God's holiness and the threat of judgment to the unholy.
Threats of a bomb or a threat on the life of a hostage can't be accepted, but the speed and decisiveness of the onrush might just so distract the terrorists that they are overpowered before a hostage is killed.
Aberdeen council was recently forced to backtrack on its single status plans after council workers threatened industrial action.
The other wave, currently near the Windward Islands is organizing and threatening to move through the very warm Caribbean. PM Update: Mostly clear and mostly awesome
The company saw off the threat of a takeover.
ISIS argues that among the biggest threats posed by Pyongyang's perceived advancement in uranium-enrichment is the North's historical willingness to export its nuclear technologies. U.S. Expects to Restart Bilateral Talks With Pyongyang by January
The UN threatened to invoke economic sanctions if the talks were broken off.
September 11 th has brought mostly unpleasant changes, including curtailment of civil liberties and threatened perpetual war.
In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like malaria and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
As if whatever lurks in your dreams - in your visions - might take tangible form and threaten you. TIME OF THE WOLF
The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
The motive is to destroy all those in the south who might threaten the oil revenues that sustain the regime's grip (it came to power by deposing an elected government and enjoys very little popular support).
I have, since it was first threatened with closure, been a staunch campaigner both locally and in Parliament to save the maternity unit.
They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival.
Sixth and last, some polluters felt that meeting the standards was just too darn expensive and threatened plant closures.
He announced yesterday that almost 100 tonnes of food would have to be sourced to avert the threat of hunger in the affected areas.
The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing non-urgent but easy procedures first is life threatening and wrong.
Countries such as Germany, Finland and the Netherlands may find it difficult to defend funnelling more cash to Athens over the coming months with the threat of the referendum looming. Greek government teeters on brink of collapse in wake of referendum plan
The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.
The guy protested and laid a hand on Novak - who responded by socking him and threatening to knock his teeth out.
Early this morning, Sprint was notified by the Overland Park Police of a non-specific bomb threat against Sprint World Headquarters.
We are more often than not the victims of rape, violence, threats and intimidation.
None of the unruly activities in themselves would be regarded as seriously criminal, but their accumulative effect is having a real impact on the usage of the community building, and may even threaten its future survival.
Hot, sulfurous gases waft from vents in the earth, kill trees, drive away wildlife, and sometimes threaten people's lives.
Some have already witnessed redundancies and may see managed services as another threat to their job security. Computing
The argument is in some ways similar to the one President Bush made in 2004, when he campaigned on what he described as his proven leadership in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks and said the terrorist threat called for keeping him in the job. Report: Hillary Campaign Plans Closing Argument Centered On National Security And The 1990s
Oil prices briefly rose on the news about the confrontation as dealers weighed the threat to shipments along the key shipping route.
The director has threatened to give his resignation in to the Board.
The case involves URA.ru, the largest news agency in the Ural Mountains region, which has been threatened with a shutdown because of anonymous comments made on its Internet forum.
The Bush Administration has slapped unilateral quotas on imports of Chinese textile products, with the threat of more to come in other sectors.
Yet, at the same time, threats will be multiplying from a youthful population in the crescent of instability running from Africa through the Middle East and into the former Soviet bloc. Too old to fight?

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