threatening
Example Sentences
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Last week, Paramount filed a lawsuit demanding Warner Bros. explain how it determined the Netflix bid was superior, while also threatening to submit a rival slate of directors at Warner Bros.’ next annual meeting.
From MarketWatch
More recently, he claimed the club was threatening to cancel his season tickets.
From BBC
The monoculture was a unifying force when politics, race, and geographic and generational divides kept threatening to tear us apart.
The EU defines coercion as a third country "applying –- or threatening to apply -– measures affecting trade or investment", thereby interfering "with the legitimate sovereign choices" of the EU and member states.
From Barron's
Decades of China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015, have contributed to a rapidly aging population with fertility rates well below replacement level, threatening to hinder future economic growth.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
