Example sentences of "threatened [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | v. Hearn the defendants , in order to protest against apartheid , threatened to instruct the members of their union to commit breaches of contract in relation to broadcast by satellite to South Africa of the 1977 Cup Final . |
| 2 | Police talked to the man for 90 minutes before breaking into the flat in Brighton and grabbing him after he threatened to light a match . |
| 3 | Mr Ormond 's compromise revealed another unpublicised chapter in the shady saga of Scottish football , a new era of player power was brewing which threatened to usurp the manager 's authority . |
| 4 | Britain never adopted the terms of the Convention because the Government Actuary considered that it threatened to usurp the husband 's responsibility to provide for his family and because it would have resulted in the payment of higher National Health Insurance ( NHI ) contributions . |
| 5 | The family solicitor threatened to sue the council for not carrying out the panel 's decision and allowing the children to go home . |
| 6 | When the appointment of new director Wilfrid Lockwood in 1983 meant that James had to yield up the house normally granted to the director , he threatened to sue the library . |
| 7 | Police hunting a man who threatened to kill a pensioner have released a security video of her attacker . |
| 8 | Several of the Covenanters , including some of the officers , told Morton that the order of the day had been ‘ No quarter — No prisoners ’ and threatened to kill the prisoner but the powerful blacksmith declared that having spared the man 's life he would defend it with his own . |
| 9 | BARMAID Saskia Hobson shot and wounded two of three armed raiders who broke into her pub and threatened to kill the landlord . |
| 10 | They threatened to kill the hostages if three imprisoned militants were not released , and on April 10 , shortly before the expiry of their deadline , they killed Khera , and the following day the bodies of the remaining two hostages were found . |
| 11 | In a further message on Oct. 30. they threatened to kill the hostages if the government launched a new offensive against the cartel . |
| 12 | Their presence provoked the first violent incidents , when on Oct. 31 some 3,000 People 's Front volunteers seized two checkpoints on the USSR-Romania border and threatened to kill the border guards and their families if the troops were not withdrawn . |
| 13 | On Nov. 4 hearings began in a federal appeals court in Honolulu on the constitutionality of a Guam territorial law of 1990 , permitting abortion only when a pregnancy threatened to kill the woman or " gravely impair " her health . |
| 14 | The General Accounting Office , in a report published on Feb. 22 , warned that faults in the avionics system threatened to drive the cost still higher . |
| 15 | The apparent concord of Sigismund 's opening years did not last long ; within a short period of time the episcopate threatened to suspend the king from communion , because of his support for a royal official in a case of incest . |
| 16 | The violence reached a peak in August and September and threatened to disrupt the ANC-government talks , with ANC leaders questioning the government 's willingness to act against the perpetrators of the violence and alleging that members of the security forces were involved . |
| 17 | However , in a rare display of unity , the country 's four main opposition parties — the Social Democratic Party of Japan ( SDPJ ) , the Komeito ( Clean Government ) Party , the Japanese Communist Party ( JSP ) and the Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) — threatened to disrupt the special Diet session scheduled to begin on Aug. 5 unless a full legislative inquiry was undertaken . |
| 18 | Opposition demands for further investigation of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal — and in particular the insistence that Kanemaru and Takeshita testify before the Diet — threatened to disrupt the business scheduled for the session . |
| 19 | He then got up off the floor and threatened to hit the labour master with his boots in his hand . |
| 20 | White , of no fixed address , was arrested after he threatened to detonate a bomb at the NatWest in Piccadilly , London . |
| 21 | If a peaceful march threatened to attract an antagonistic rival mob , then the standard police procedure was to allow the march to go ahead , with as much protection as was necessary . |
| 22 | Helping the young Spanish Republic in its struggle for survival against these powerful enemies was , or seemed to be , a way of resisting the advance of a sinister creed and political system which threatened to engulf the whole of Europe . |
| 23 | OPPOSITION MPs today demanded an urgent Commons statement as disputed claims about the role of Sir Patrick Mayhew in the arms-to-Iraq affair threatened to engulf the Government . |
| 24 | Continuing disagreement between the United States and the European Communities ( EC ) , on the issue of agricultural subsidies , threatened to obstruct the conclusion of the current " Uruguay Round " of multilateral trade negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , under way for four years and due to be finalized by the end of December [ see pp. 36508-09 ; 36605 ; 37227-28 ; 37476 ] . |
| 25 | His statements on the latter issue threatened to revive the scandal which had followed discovery in February of the sale [ see p. 38019 ] . |
| 26 | But now they threatened to desecrate the temple . |
| 27 | The resolution also threatened to exclude the Khmers Rouges from the general election scheduled for May 1993 , if voter registration had not been allowed to go ahead in Khmer Rouge areas by Jan. 31 , 1993 . |
| 28 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |
| 29 | Combined with the invention of the purse-net , a dangerous stage was reached where the ability to find and catch some species threatened to outstrip the ability of fish to maintain viable populations . |
| 30 | As we saw , the latter relation threatened to compromise the son 's masculinity and to force him into a passive , feminine relation to his mother which could result either in abject surrender , as in depression , or in defiant revolt , as in mania . |