Sentence examples for actions threatening from inspiring English sources

Sugrue says that only through actions threatening the privileges of whites — boycotts, demonstrations, community control of schools — could blacks narrow the disparities.

Along with other American energy firms, it lobbied to insert language in a proposed US-EU trade agreement allowing US companies to haul European governments before international arbitration panels for any actions threatening their investments.

And Egyptian human rights advocates are now focused on cases of police abuse or legal actions threatening freedom of expression under the new government, rather than the crimes of the old one.

"I would like to draw the attention of those who thought that in our country it is possible with absolute impunity to organize mass disorders, to plan and prepare terrorist acts and other actions threatening the life and health of Russians," the spokesman, Vladimir Markin, said in a televised statement.

However, the communes' residents draw parallels with what is happening in other parts of London, such as Hackney, Brixton and Newham, where people have been threatened with eviction as social landlords seek to capitalise on rising property prices, their actions threatening to undermine established, diverse neighbourhoods.

Disruptive tactic refers to actions threatening public order/safety.

Such actions threaten the stability of the state".

Swiss bankers deny that such actions threaten their business.

Surely those actions threatened our own interests more than Libya's actions.

Other legal actions threaten to expose yet more secrets of the C.I.A.'s torture program.

They, and the president, seem oblivious to the way those actions threaten national unity.