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Tom is threatening his wife with divorce.
My father is threatening to disinherit me.
The sky looks threatening.
The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.
Threatening me is useless, I won't say anything.
No point in threatening me. I'll still tell you nothing.
If he keeps threatening you, then you should go to the police.
Are you threatening me?
Are you actually threatening me?
Tom thought he was surrounded at night by threatening spirits.
Tom's fall resulted in life-threatening injuries.
Tom fell heavily and hit his head on a rock, causing life-threatening injuries.
The new government is faced with the threatening gestures of a neighboring great power.
The mayor's family was harassed with threatening phone calls all day.
The labor unions had been threatening the government with a general strike.
Tom gave Mary a threatening look.
Americans are worried that illegal migrants are threatening the nation's culture and economy.
Is this man threatening you?
Was this man threatening you?
No one is threatening you.
Movie subtitles
Did you really think you could get me to shoot you just by threatening me?
Threatening the Reaper and acting like that. there will be no trial, and will instantly be brought to hell.
This threatening letter was found amongst Mrs. Palmer's personal effects, and I believe it was written by a Buffalo Queen.
No, we won't threaten anyone who isn't threatening us.
I was afraid and ran away. then I saw the threatening crowd.
What are you threatening me with?
It is a disease threatening to become a pandemic that could spread all over the world.
There was no other way but to punish and destroy this tiny bothersome state, that was continuously threatening our peace!
He's always threatening to blow people's heads off.
No threatening and shouting?
Sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.
This is his claim, his threatening, and my message. unless the Dauphin be in presence here, to whom expressly I bring greeting too.
I might even call it threatening.
Behind these flowers, there's still a man's face threatening us.
You have been threatening to tell me the truth about my husband since the day we met, and I'm ready to listen.
The tone of that letter is definitely threatening.
She hasn't been in here, old man. -She's threatening to stop the train.
He's threatening me and he'll stop at nothing.
Sonya's threatening.
The threatening hoofbeats of our cavalcade is a warning signal for all animals of the plain.
And yet Tibetans don't just produce goods they need to withstand the life-threatening forces of nature, but also wish to make items with beauty and for decoration.
What do you want me to say? You're threatening me!
Your father started threatening me and I took the gun away from him.
As a matter of fact, wasn't he threatening to quit?
THEY WERE THREATENING TO KILL HIM.
The sky turned threatening.
Please don't mind my brother, Mr Destry. He's always threatening to blow people's heads off.
Well, what evil is threatening me?
Let it be known to great Emir, that last night I saw that the position of the stars were threatening to the Emir.
This is his claim, his threatening, and my message.
Maybe he's threatening her.
Maybe, there is a monster in the forest, threatening you by mortal danger?
The distinguished Mrs. Angelina, whom you well know, has just left here a minute ago threatening to incite the slum dwellers to reoccupy the flats!
He's been threatening to go over to see you.
That day he sent another letter threatening me again.
It looks very threatening.
News and current affairs
And, while the cloud over the eurozone may be the largest to burst, it is not the only one threatening the global economy.
And some in the US Congress want to cut food stamps - on which some 23 million American households depend, threatening the poorest children with hunger.
But he is surely right to observe that no other power is threatening to usurp America's role as the world's military policeman.
Look at how the Kremlin seeks to blackmail its neighbors by threatening their energy supplies.
The United States is pressing for administrative reforms and threatening to cut off funding if the reforms are not forthcoming.
Second, inadequate macroeconomic policy coordination has resulted in divergences in the international competitiveness of euro-zone members, threatening the very existence of the euro.
Irresponsible behavior threatening the health of the global economy?
Of course, working conditions may be experienced as threatening even when objectively they are not, or trivial symptoms may be interpreted as manifestations of serious illness.
So Trichet should relax, stop threatening others, and let the economic slowdown do the work for him.
If a major oil spill in Haiti were threatening the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn't we want the best technology (and not just the technology available in Haiti) to try to contain it?
The expansion of military alliances, such as NATO, would be declared a threatening measure.
Foreigners will become less enthusiastic about continued lending to the US, weakening the dollar further, forcing up US interest rates, and threatening to undermine America's stock market and consumer spending.
At best, the overthrow of Saddam removed a threatening dictator, and substituted a tyranny of the majority for the tyranny of a minority.
Moreover, the size of the bad debt threatening banks remains unknown, and could amount to several hundred billion dollars.
It had no choice: with financial turmoil threatening to spread from small countries like Greece and Ireland to large ones like Italy and Spain, the euro's very survival was in growing jeopardy.
Because of the global recession, some international donors are threatening to cap their financial support.
To stop Syria from objecting, the US is now threatening it as well.
Both Republicans and Democrats are threatening to pass a new round of tough sanctions against Iran in December.
WASHINGTON, DC - China's government is cracking down hard on Western journalists, threatening not to renew visas for reporters from the New York Times and Bloomberg in retaliation for their reporting on the corruption of senior Chinese officials.
But now the conflict has spread across the Middle East, destabilizing Lebanon and Jordan and threatening to fracture Iraq.
If Al Qaeda operatives begin threatening the US from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the US will just take them out with drones, as it has done in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
In this, paradoxically, they have become like the outraged US government officials who are now threatening Assange, and who also are no longer able to control the flow of information.
Among his likely jobs in Iraq will be to secure a pipeline carrying Iraqi oil from Mosul, Iraq to Haifa, Israel via Syria. To stop Syria from objecting, the US is now threatening it as well.
By picking territorial fights with its neighbors, China is not only reinforcing old rivalries, but is also threatening Asia's continued economic renaissance - showing that it is not a credible candidate to lead Asia.
Indeed, with America's economy in apparent freefall, Trichet is threatening euro-zone trade unions with pre-emptive interest-rate hikes unless they behave as he sees fit.