Sentence examples similar to a threatening proportion from inspiring English sources

The most important policy makers, such as Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan - who has to some degree fallen from grace - but also current Chairman Ben Bernanke, might also be asked to explain how they failed to notice the biggest asset bubble in the history of the world as it swelled over a period of several years to obviously threatening proportions.

'The seizure of the papers of Algernon Sidney, which were made use of as the means of convicting him of treason, and of those of Wilkes about the time that the controversy between Great Britain and the American Colonies was assuming threatening proportions, was probably the immediate occasion for this constitutional provision.

The homeless adults share these with another group that is symptomatic of Russia's post-Soviet condition: Moscow's street children, products of the widespread family breakdown that the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communism brought with them.In 2002, Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, declared that the problem of child homelessness in Russia had reached "threatening proportions".

India and Pakistan were supposed to attempt this on their own, but this only led to a whole raft of small conflicts which - and the previous speakers were right to underline this - have taken on more threatening proportions since both countries have become nuclear powers.

Another wields a threatening stick.

He: a threatening, abnormal killer".

"That's a threatening concept for democracy".

It's a threatening letter".

It's not such a threatening problem.

It is usually not a threatening behavior.

The city has a threatening presence.