1. My boyfriend was threatening to finish with me.

2. The dog gave a threatening growl.

3. The threatening strike did not take place after all.

4. The police could have charged them with threatening behaviour.

5. The two countries were threatening to nuke each other.

6. The acid rain is threatening world environment.

7. The situation assumed a threatening character.

8. Illegal hunting is threatening the survival of the species.

9. The government is threatening to take drastic action.

10. Postal workers are threatening a strike if they don't receive a pay increase.

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11. Predatory pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses.

12. He has accused her of threatening to gouge his eyes out.

13. In a surprisingly bold move , he is threatening court action against the company.

14. They were threatening to bring down the government by withdrawing from the ruling coalition.

15. The union is threatening industrial action against the company.

16. The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.

17. The river was threatening to burst its banks.

18. She's threatening to sue her employers for wrongful dismissal.

19. He was threatening to burn the place down.

20. The Civil Service is/are threatening to strike.

21. She is threatening to file a petition for divorce.

22. Pollution along the coastline is threatening marine life.

23. Workers are threatening to walk out.

24. Their longest-serving employee is threatening to quit over pay.

25. The war is threatening to engulf the entire region.

26. Rebellious back-benchers are threatening to vote against the government.

27. They advanced upon me in a threatening manner.

28. After several threatening calls, we decided to go ex-directory.

29. A plague of squirrels is threatening our forests.

30. His temples pulsed a little, threatening a headache.

1. My boyfriend was threatening to finish with me.

2. The dog gave a threatening growl.

3. The threatening strike did not take place after all.

4. The police could have charged them with threatening behaviour.

5. The two countries were threatening to nuke each other.

6. The acid rain is threatening world environment.

7. The situation assumed a threatening character.

8. Illegal hunting is threatening the survival of the species.

9. The government is threatening to take drastic action.

10. Postal workers are threatening a strike if they don't receive a pay increase.

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11. Predatory pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses.

12. He has accused her of threatening to gouge his eyes out.

13. In a surprisingly bold move , he is threatening court action against the company.

14. They were threatening to bring down the government by withdrawing from the ruling coalition.

15. He was well - known for his violent and threatening behaviour.

31. Changing patterns of agriculture are threatening the countryside.

32. The terrorists are threatening to blow up the plane.

33. The sky was dark and threatening.

34. Rising costs are threatening the viability of many businesses.

35. The fighting is threatening to turn into full-scale war.

36. Prison officers are threatening to take strike action.

37. Look at those clouds! There's a storm threatening.

38. He was notorious for his violent and threatening behaviour.

39. Obscene and threatening phone calls are against the law.

40. She is threatening to institute legal proceedings against the hospital.

41. The house seemed less threatening in the cold light of day.

42. She blackmailed him for years by threatening to tell the newspapers about their affair.

43. The printers are threatening to down tools if the pay offer is not increased to 8%.

44. The terrorists are threatening to blow up the hijacked airliner.

45. Air traffic controllers are threatening to come out on / go on strike.

46. Environmental groups are threatening direct action if plans for the new road go ahead.

47. She complained to the police after receiving threatening phone calls and hate mail.

48. Martha was always threatening to leave,[] but I never believed her.

49. The salesman scared the old lady into signing the paper by threatening to take away the goods.

50. She got what she wanted by dint of pleading and threatening.

51. He was well - known for his violent and threatening behaviour.

52. They are threatening to take legal action against the hospital .

53. He received an anonymous letter threatening to disclose details of his affair if he didn't pay the money.

54. The fire is threatening about sixty homes, and residents have evacuated the area.

55. My landlord was threatening to put the rent up by 10 dollars a week.

56. Terrorist attacks on senior officials were threatening to destabilize the government.

57. He has accused the nurses of holding the government to ransom by threatening to strike.

58. I can see why you believed my letters were threatening but I never meant them to be.

59. Airline staff have fired a warning shot across the company's bows by threatening to strike if higher pay increases are not offered.

60. The union arm-twisted the company into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.

61. The terrorists have seized 20 hostages and are threatening to kill one a day unless their demands are met.

62. The man drew a finger across his throat in a threatening gesture.

63. Public worries about accidents are threatening the very existence of the nuclear power industry.

64. My landlord's threatening to put the rent up by 10 a week.

65. His voice sounded threatening.

66. People are becoming more sensitized to the dangers threatening the environment.

67. The army is/are threatening to take over if civil unrest continues.

68. She has secret information and is threatening to name names .

69. You may find that just threatening this course of action will produce the desired effect.

70. The manager tried to bully his men into working harder by threatening them with dismissal.

71. She's threatening to take me to court for not paying the bill on time.

72. Workers are threatening to walk out if an agreement is not reached.

73. The farmer came after them,[http:///threatening.html] threatening to call the police.

74. Retailers can exert leverage over producers by threatening to take their business elsewhere.

75. With rain threatening, we headed home as fast as we could.

76. The guard growled out a warning,threatening the prisoners with his gun.

77. The Americans responded, Rambo-style/Rambo-like, by threatening to attack immediately if their conditions were not met.

78. The judge told him to desist from threatening his wife.

79. A storm was threatening.

80. This weekend's fighting is threatening to burst into full-scale war.

81. Parisian taxi drivers are threatening to mount a blockade to turn the screw on the government.

82. The commission pinpoints inadequate housing as a basic problem threatening village life.

83. An example is threatening a deaf person.

84. The threatening phone calls started all over again.

85. Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.

86. Doctors said afterwards the overdose was potentially life threatening.

87. It's threatening to cause a huge ecological disaster.

88. An alien object was threatening the organism.

89. His white face was spiteful[], threatening and suggestive.

90. Frost bites HEAVY frost is threatening today's meetings.

91. A blink from a monster victory now threatening disaster.

92. Barnett is not threatening lawsuits at this point.

93. The other was the target of threatening racial graffiti.

94. Toxic chemicals may permeate the soil, threatening the environment.

95. Outside, single shouts sounded - a threatening growl from several voices together - hens squawking.

96. Frost is also threatening tomorrow's other fixtures at Cheltenham and Leicester.

97. He suddenly looked very large and threatening in the doorway.

98. This automatic system monitors the position, closure rate and altitude of nearby aircraft, identifying potentially threatening intruders.

99. Lord Hill called his bluff by threatening to make public the reason why the programme could not be shown.

100. Love and joy seemed to explode inside her,[sentence dictionary] threatening to spill over into cries of happiness.

101. Clearly, until these questions are answered, gene therapy will be reserved for life threatening diseases.

102. One day we had just made camp when a local caste of herders came and began shouting and threatening us.

103. Eisenhower worried that big government was threatening the old American values.

104. Chi Ma Wan inmates have been threatening violent resistance should moves be made to deport them.

105. Today our hair is very red on account of the rain that is threatening us.

106. Like a leather-clad spanking madam in fluffy carpet slippers, it's less threatening that way.

107. He had said he would drag her through every court in the land, which sounded unpleasantly threatening.

108. A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.

109. Nausea rose in her throat, threatening to choke her, when she saw the bloodied arrow clutched in her hand.

110. The state is also threatening to fine the company and to block salary increases for its managers.

111. No doubt there will be would-be adopters who are likely to find the possibility of inclusive adoption threatening and not wish to proceed.

112. He was accused of using threatening or insulting behaviour and of assaulting a police officer.

113. But by thus trying to evade a threatening situation, she nearly gets destroyed by it.

114. As it becomes concentrated, the waste becomes even more threatening to marine life.

115. It wasn't just that the thing looked misshapen and ugly and threatening.

116. He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril.

117. A threat to any one of these is therefore perceived as threatening the others.

118. Water diversions such as dams and canals are threatening the fish population.

119. The old lady's footsteps could be heard, ponderous and threatening, on the front steps.

120. Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.

121. The Orcs rampage through the mountains for years, causing considerable destruction and even threatening to capture the capital.

122. Dear Sam, she read, shaking her head at the profane groveling, the threatening accusations....

123. To break the impasse, he made a sudden threatening move forward.

124. He said she had received threatening phone calls and that the whole experience had been most unpleasant.

125. Corin Redgrave has blocked out the key action vividly, indicating the threatening turmoil of war and revolt.

126. Their visits were threatening and long, and eventually the agency gave up hope of substituting mulberry trees for opium.

127. Less threatening contents named by Mr Milburn included sucrose, cocoa, butter, liquorice root and citric acid.

128. Rolfe, of Broxbourne, denies threatening to kill and kidnapping Mrs Armsby, 45.

129. Businesses that polluted the river were fined. Under pressure, power projects threatening water quality and marine life were halted.

130. Arsenal's breaks were few but always threatening and Oldham, after a first flurry, found openings increasingly elusive.

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131. The company plans to dock the officers' pay and is threatening disciplinary action.

132. When she approached the youth he took a hesitant step back but froze to the spot on seeing Graham's threatening look.

133. It had snowed all night and the build-up was threatening to push us off down the hill.

134. Kids find themselves sitting on the threatening boundaries of the classroom.

135. Some local politicians, led by Mr Antonovich, are threatening to block the necessary implementing regulations.

136. So many have been released in the wild that they're threatening native species.

137. As consumers we can demand a change in the manufacture of products that are threatening our health now.

138. Since early September the 23-year-old multi-millionaire had been stalked by a mystery woman threatening to kill the man she once idolised.

139. While not exactly threatening, her demeanour was hard and off-putting.

140. And in Bosnia-Herzegovina journalists continue to work in circumstances which are so threatening that most foreign correspondents covering the conflict have fled.

141. If there's a very serious canine-life threatening problem, experts need to be consulted.

142. Up to 1925, however, industrial action had not appeared to work and threatening postures had not generally been successful against employers.

143. And now the hospital bill hovered overhead too, yet one more steel beam threatening to bring them all down.

144. For a start, it allows the poor into the housing market by keeping costs low and not threatening higher-income groups.

145. Surely he presented no physical threat to anyone, but it was possible that he had knowledge that was threatening.

146. Secure attachments early on in life provide inner resources to manage stressful and threatening situations in later years.

147. She went outside to talk to him, threatening all sorts of terrible punishments for anyone who misbehaved in her absence.

148. This year, tensions boiled over threatening to bring the country's economy to its knees.

149. Sales agents acting on behalf of manufacturers, are vigilant in preventing retailers from selling at lower prices by threatening to cut future supplies.

150. Johnny's continued presence in the room was threatening, and she was afraid.

151. Dilip drove off honking his horn and threatening to run down those who were slow to get out of his way.

152. The river is benign now but will turn into a threatening torrent when the monsoons begin in early summer.

153. The roots of the trouble lie in Republican policies that women see as threatening. Symbolic gestures and tokenism are inadequate remedies.

154. The two camps traded insults, moans and jeers, threatening occasionally to turn the proceedings into an intramural debate.

155. But groups representing the disabled are threatening to disrupt the day.

156. He sought to extort money by threatening to reveal secrets about his boss's private life.

157. He cantered off and rode beside Mitch, and Maggie hoped he was not giving out any threatening advice.

158. Wiedman molested the three boys in a Mesa hotel over three weeks, bribing and threatening them into silence.

159. Men shouldn't be surprised if women read this behaviour as threatening.

160. That strike ended in the spring of 1992,[] when Caterpillar made headlines by threatening to permanently replace the strikers.

161. Parents needed to be reassured that, although it is a significant chronic problem, it is not life threatening.

162. The letter Fearon got was a very nasty piece of threatening mail.

163. Meanwhile Plehve's undefeated Fifth Army had turned about and was threatening to engulf Dankl's now unprotected right flank.

164. But it also is threatening the livelihoods of many small business operators in San Diego and elsewhere.

165. And when they weren't threatening her, they were silently disappearing into the trees.

166. And for many gay men, that posed a problem almost as threatening as the epidemic itself.

167. Exploration of the testicle was deferred because of the potentially life threatening medical condition.

168. She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it.

169. He has also been accused of molesting his own daughter and threatening other girls, court documents show.

170. They tried to induce King to commit suicide by threatening to release this information.

171. Two Haverhill men have been charged with threatening behaviour and possession of offensive weapons.

172. After 23 days, the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets.

173. Clouds crept up silently like assassins from the southwest and gathered in a dark and threatening mass.

174. Hobbins, who surrendered after threatening to kill himself, denies murder, attempted murder and firearms offences.

175. People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events.

176. Gina tried to blackmail him, by threatening to tell his wife about their affair.

177. Threatening circumstances and challenges compel both performance and change much more effectively than mere opportunities and good intentions.

178. It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion.

179. Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.

180. I remember it as I saw it one evening, lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds.

181. She looked behind her, out towards the brightening horizon, but saw only the black, threatening sea.

182. The more militant and threatening the pressure from below, the more vigorously the propertied classes supported repressive measures.

183. Well now, one surely would have thought that for such little things those great big waves might have seemed threatening.

184. What falling ill means to a cat, or any other animal, is that something unpleasant is threatening it.

185. With students threatening to run a Barclays-style boycott against any that participate, stand by for more to pull out.

186. Subjects were excluded from the study if they suffered from any debilitating or life threatening disease, including invasive cancer.

187. The Springboks poured forward, long passes threatening to release Paulse and Williams.

188. The Prussian gunner officer saw another troop of Dragoons threatening to outflank his position.

189. A hidden mechanism activates, ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge.

190. Each empty room made the next door yet more threatening.

190. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

191. Under pressure, power projects threatening water quality and marine life were halted.

192. We were a finely balanced investment, threatening constantly to topple over into the realms of demand and expenditure.

193. The Hawiye clan, which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre, is not thought to be vengeful.

194. He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club.

195. In addition, the generals are threatening to overthrow the first democratic government the country has had in 40 years.

196. In the wake of the bombing, the UK is threatening to break off diplomatic relations.

197. The canvas bag she was carrying was awkward too and banged against her legs, threatening to trip her up.

198. A pupil entering a new class may initially define the situation as threatening and even hostile.

199. The recipient might become worried if successive letters then come threatening that action will be taken to obtain the price from him.

200. She is threatening to pull out of the government and join Mr Sharif's agitation if Mr Ishaq does not fulfil her demands.

201. Her gestures were emphatic but, from a distance, did not appear threatening or abusive.

202. The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children, then herself.

203. A woman who entered such a union embarked, like Yone Noguchi, on a voyage of threatening vastness.

204. The concurrence of threatening life events and psychosocial distress may partly explain these phenomena.

205. Now motorists are threatening to give Shell pumps a wide berth.

206. Death had brushed Dustin's cheek twice, threatening to take him first by fire and secondly by a bomb.

207. Oxford's bowling was never threatening and looked rather ordinary when Glendenen and Parker began to hurry after a quiet first half-hour.

208. Perhaps he can be helped to interpret the events as less threatening.

209. Why didn't Luke damn well help him, instead of threatening to throw him off the film?

210. The war in Bosnia was at the peak of its brutality and threatening to spread.

211. But it looked like, instead of being a clenched and threatening fist, they would present a welcoming, open hand.

212. The most threatening form of pollution known to humankind is poverty.

213. Threatening lions can be killed under special permit by the Fish and Game Department.

214. Most threatening of these for the marine ecosystem is the exposure to increased ultra-violet radiation through the depletion of the ozone layer.

215. Second, and more threatening, there was grass-roots discontent at Baldwin's indolent approach to the tasks of opposition.

216. It is now threatening to overwhelm the beds of a native seagrass which are important breeding grounds for fish.

217. The defendants were found guilty of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and threatening the security of the state.

218. Bonds has a pulled hamstring, which is seldom fatal, but it was threatening to infect the entire team.

219. The monoclonal antibodies work by combating the T-Lymphocytes and other threatening cells.

220. Even the thought of sharing a bed with him didn't seem so threatening when he was being kind.

221. Telford, of Wheatley, Doncaster, was conditionally discharged by town magistrates after admitting threatening[http:///threatening.html], abusive and insulting behaviour.

222. They are constantly changing their numbers, or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls.

223. Rosie's shadow loomed monstrously across the ceiling as she lumbered to her feet with a threatening growl.

224. While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations, they found many were making the wrong decisions.

225. Urban violence and civil unrest were mushrooming like small bombs threatening to blow up the machine from within.

226. The local police chief had scared him off by threatening to arrest him for manslaughter if Annie perished.

227. But instead of levying fines, prosecuting plant officials or revoking their licenses, the agency only wrote threatening letters to trustees.

228. Now his campaign is threatening to self-destruct because of a controversy over racial politics involving the comedian Jackie Mason.

229. Ben didn't want to study law, but his father bullied him into it by threatening to cut off his allowance.

230. Paradoxically, what was potentially a threatening situation for Franco in fact strengthened his position.

231. She continued to receive harassing phone calls and threatening letters.

232. But the question remains: why were those two Frenchwomen in the sixteenth century found so threatening?

233. The mine owners coerced the workers into going back to work, by threatening to close down the mines completely.

234. The result is that civil, socio-political and environmental disasters are now threatening the roots of our existence.

235. It created a statutory offence of riot - 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose.

236. So too the yawning depths of the wave, even while threatening annihilation, hold out the promise of rebirth.

237. She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.

238. But occasionally a word, a definition an attitude looms like a weapon between us, threatening to destroy the conversation.

239. The decision caused uproar, with thousands of Anglicans threatening to leave the church.

240. Threatening lions can be killed under special permit by the Fish and Game Department. Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare.

241. I wait, hands held high, elbows still threatening to drip one last drop.

242. The father, so angered by the compulsory admission, became threatening and abusive to residential staff.

243. Getting ashore is tricky, with the sea threatening to destroy the boats on the boulders at the edge.

244. But the phantoms of boards and unplayed moves gradually return to haunt Luzhin, threatening his sanity.

245. Apparently the strip club owners were threatening to put in dart boards and pool tables.

246. And kicking against an impersonal organisation was more fun and less threatening than confronting the old man directly.

247. He stands up and starts threatening Paul with an imaginary cattle prod.

248. The birth takes place under threatening skies. Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.

249. But she establishes her ambiance well: This Mississippi heat is as thick and threatening as Bubba breath.

250. Two bills and a threatening letter about a parking ticket.

251. Bosses are threatening to axe them - but keeping faith in Eldorado.

252. Jack Frost was threatening to kill the new plants.

253. Terrorist attacks were threatening to destabilize the government.

254. The light in the car was dim , and that too , enhanced the threatening atmosphere.

255. Dominance is maintained by aggressive or threatening behaviour on the part of one animal.

256. He has acquired, by dint of threatening to resign, a directorate-general with about 150 officials.

257. 'Still,'said Darnay,'you know how gloomy and threatening the sky is.'.

258. The strikers still carried on, in spite of the threatening attitude of the colliery owner.