Sentence examples for construed as threatening from inspiring English sources

It seemed that the Chinese armed forces did not promptly inform China's foreign ministry about the Impeccable incident.China bristles at any American suggestion that its behaviour could be construed as threatening.

"This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law".

"Individuals who witness an arrest should stay clear, avoid interfering, and most particularly, ensure that they take no actions or make any motions that could be construed as threatening to the lives or safety of the officers, arrestee or anyone else," says Dan Cadman, a retired ICE official now with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies.

Carrying a weapon which could be construed as threatening or intimidating is, under certain jurisdictions, brandishing a weapon.

The manner in which he said this could have been construed as threatening, and that's how we chose to perceive it in that moment.

The construction of black men and boys as presumptively criminal means that even the most benign behavior will be construed as threatening and may be used to justify their death at the hands of the police.

But in order to make its point, America is considering moves that might be construed by China as threatening.

Nevertheless, southerners construed his words as threatening the forced end of slavery.

That incident could be construed as battery, as Etheridge never threatened harm to the student in the video.

In reply to an association statement expressing solidarity with Father Flannery, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith denied it was acting in a secretive manner, pointed out that Father Flannery's views could be construed as "heresy" under church law, and threatened "canonical penalties," including excommunication, if he did not change his views.

Notwithstanding the utility and heuristic power of this conception, such an account based on a self-other demarcation derives from an anthropocentric extrapolation, one that may be directly traced to the original clinical orientation in which immunology emerged: Infectious disease afflicts the patient – a threatened self – and immunity is thus construed as protective of that agent.