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Greenpeace works to promote awareness of the dangers that threaten our planet today.
Britain threatened to break off diplomatic relations.
They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met.
She's threatening to take me to court for not paying the bill on time.
The restriction imposed by the statute here threatens severe impairment of the judicial function.
Marcus in his speech uses rhetorical means to release emotion that the initial shocking sight threatened to freeze.
After 1921, even this minimum standard was threatened when the government responded to employers' complaints by cutting back on the number of new trade boards.
At times, legal services workers have been threatened with charges of trespass.
Anything that threatened this balance was anathema to him.
Though the protagonist is clearly deserving of punishment, the capricious, almost arbitrary manner of the punishment threatens to eclipse his crimes.
When she 'heard' her thoughts, she was frightened, felt out of control and her idyllic child-like environment threatened.
He had benefited only recently from their influence when his position as abbot was threatened.
Apart from doubts and hostility toward the notion of education for women, one incident threatened the whole venture.
Rather, they lived in practical uncertainty, often felt threatened, and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them.
Many trilobites could enroll when threatened, just like the living woodlouse some of them even evolved locking devices to make their enrollment really secure.
Even so, the threatening waters do not retreat.
Many of them, perhaps, were children of the ladies who had threatened the archbishop's predecessor thirty years before.
Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire.
However, in circumstances when life itself is not threatened, the purpose becomes one of preventing, or at least minimising, injury and ill-health.
