They threatened to shut down the factory.
He also threatened to levy punitive taxes on holdouts.
In the first half of 1955 the atmosphere was foul and dark clouds threatened.
Is your spouse so jealous of or threatened by your friends and family that you hardly ever see them anymore?
The rebating evil, they warned, had grown to such monstrous proportions that it threatened to bankrupt the railroads.
Tensions between India and Pakistan, as well as the deteriorating relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan have threatened to overshadow the summit.
Last year, lawyers threatened a class-action lawsuit for unfair and deceptive practices unless Disney agreed to refund the full purchase price to all who bought the videos since 2004.
The black clouds threatened rain.
Her boss threatened to fire her.
The whole social fabric was threatened with disintegration.
In a drunken rage, he demanded more cash and threatened us.
We are not on track to solving the problem, and development progress is deeply threatened," he said.
“The Artist, ” a black-and-white, narrow-screen confection, tells the bittersweet tale of a screen idol whose career is threatened by the arrival of sound.
And now he lives in a rough part of Chicago, where teenage thugs have broken into his modest house three times, pinched his TV and threatened to kill him.
The rebels threatened to seize civilian hostages.
Loss of habitats is behind 80% of threatened species, the report claims.
The world's fastest marathon runner, for one, has threatened to drop out of that race because of pollution.
The minute someone’s pet bunny is threatened, however, take it as a sign that the green-eyed monster has gone too far.
Some students threatened her.
People can act violently if they feel threatened.
According to ci, these species are "some of the most biologically surprising, unique, or threatened discoveries" from their teams' surveys.
Liberty is not easy,but far better to be an unfettered fox,hungry and threatened on its hill,than a well-fed canary,safe and secure in its cage.
His anxieties threatened to unbalance his mind.
But the victims of both kinds of stalker may be as frightened as those threatened physically.
Kit, the head of a trading outfit, tells of a visit from a policeman one morning. He was threatened with a fine because his maid had put out the rubbish before 7am.
At this point, he threatened to kill a hostage.
If he threatened to quit, you'd have a hard time finding a replacement, and the students would find some excuse to make trouble.
And bloggers who specialize in sharing news about trafficking have been threatened in the past.
Others threatened to sue her.
"Kuling's all right, but you won't find your sea air up there! Besides, I heard a day or so ago that the Red Army is attacking Chian. Changsha is surrounded, and Nanchang and Kiukiang are both threatened!
I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened.
Once your base is secure, your best bet is to rush to each newly threatened settlement and destroy the Zerg Virophage before it can fully infest the settlement.
As a result, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that as many as a third of all shark species are threatened or near threatened with extinction, including the great white.
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