threaten
Example Sentences
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Most were responding at least partially to special pleading by the wealthy, who threatened to relocate to friendlier jurisdictions in a continent-wide low-tax contest.
From Los Angeles Times
An Indian climate advocacy firm led by a prominent activist has denied allegations by authorities that it misused foreign funds to influence policy and threaten the country's energy security.
From Barron's
Increased crude output from Venezuela threatens to displace the roughly 400,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil refined in the U.S.
At moments, poignant domestic intimacies such as cooking and bathing threaten to break the detente and let in some emotion.
The winds had died down but threatened to pick up again.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
