The letter begins by way of preamble with a statement of the case and cause of writing and this is followed by certain instructions without minatory clauses or other formul.
Despite the precise marksmanship, the minatory projectile fortunately failed to explode.
You might call it minatory.
Nevertheless, it was a minatory sentence.
The method he adopts to carry it through by voluntary means, however, is government by minatory exhortation and that is not a good way of governing.
There is an imbalance between its aims, which are a mixture of the uncontroversial, the pious and the banal, and the means, which are mandatory, minatory, bureaucratic and often contradictory.
It was a telegram of most minatory character.
A one-sided minatory posture of that kind, whether to management or men—and it will be seen as such—will not work.
