Sentence examples for disguised threat from inspiring English sources

"They were doing it with a very thinly disguised threat that if you don't give us these tax abatements, then we'll have to go somewhere else".

The argument that it will gum up Parliament is a disguised threat, issued by the people who plan on pouring the glue.

This was evident in his stiff-wrist gestures and his repeated use of a "knuckles display", which is a disguised threat signal.

Paul also embedded a thinly disguised threat to challenge the law in court if necessary; he requested that the Republicans help him avoid a "costly and time-consuming legal challenge".

Taylor issued a thinly disguised threat to cut aid, releasing a public statement saying Washington might reconsider its military funding if "the fabric of legal government" was not reinstated.

Earth asks us to deny this rift, a threat disguised as suggestion- as we have seen in the tale of Persephone which should be read as an argument between the mother and the lover- the daughter is just meat.

A metamodern poem, published at a certain moment and in a certain venue, can result in public disavowals from a poet's publisher; massive depletion of one's social media network; the loss or threatening of a poet's employment or educational status; public allegations of the most hateful and ad hominem sort, disguised as disinterested critique; even death threats to the author and his family.

In this case, humanitarian intervention mutates into a disguised instrument of power projection and, consequently, constitutes a threat to the national integrity of weak states, as well as to the international security on the whole.

The majority of the threats have arrived via phone, often featuring a disguised, robotic voice.

A more serious threat is arguably that Iran may create a parallel covert programme in a disguised or underground facility.

First, the disguised part.