Sentence examples for construction is threatening from inspiring English sources
The contentious issue of West Bank settlement construction is threatening to dominate the first face-to-face talks for 20 months between Israel and the Palestinians, due to begin with a White House dinner hosted by President Barack Obama tomorrow night.
(He staged a free, outside-the-museum, extended-hours exhibition to create community support when the project, now under construction, was threatened by budgetary problems).
Over the years, the building was threatened with demolition, perhaps most seriously after the construction of Lincoln Center when both New York City Ballet and New York City Opera decamped.
When the three of them discover that a construction site is threatening the habitat of an endangered species of owls, they set out to sabotage the building project, incurring the wrath of a national restaurant chain and baffling a clueless local cop named Officer Delinko (Luke Wilson).
But film-maker Thomas Bena says the house the Obamas are renting this year is a prime example of the kind of mega-construction that is threatening to destroy the character of the island.
The increasing intervention from high rise construction and new developments within the historic urban fabric is threatening the existing character and the Outstanding Universal Value of World Heritage Site List.
"One hundred is threatening to leave".
North Korea is threatening nuclear war.
In this view, Mr. Sharon is threatening to impose a settlement consisting of a truncated Palestine existing behind the concrete and chain-link barrier that is now under construction.
Brussels is threatening legal action.
