Sentence examples for be menaced from inspiring English sources

A force adequate to the enemy, collected at that single point, with suitable preparation for such others as might be menaced, is all that would be requisite.

A nation exerting complete military dominance in the West Bank becomes one that, under an almost unimaginable peace accord, might be menaced from there.

When the actual contents of the speech were known, Wall Street was seized with another war fright interpreting it as a warning that America would be menaced if the United States continued in its isolation and neutrality policy.

Furthermore, many other cetacean species, such as the gray whale and the northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), continue to be menaced by ship collisions, pollution, entanglement in commercial fishing equipment, and illegal hunting.

In recent weeks, concern has mounted that the economies of Europe and Japan may be menaced by deflation, or falling prices, which erode corporate profits and make it harder for debtors to repay their obligations.

As strange, and at once as luxurious and hellish, as the dining room Rothko planned in New York - a place where, instead of making small talk, diners would be menaced by sensual, occult, claustrophobic paintings.

The consequences would be menacing.

Never be menacing.

The national economy was menaced by it.

Nigeria, by comparison, has been menaced only by itself.

He was menaced by the prospect of someone drowning.