Sentence examples for face a threatening from inspiring English sources

Although uninjured, the fact remains that a man was allegedly assaulted, and was probably terrified to face a threatening assailant who was later charged with aggravated robbery.

After mastering control of attention, some therapists say, a person can turn, mentally, to face a threatening or troubling thought — about, say, a strained relationship with a parent — and learn simply to endure the anger or sadness and let it pass, without lapsing into rumination or trying to change the feeling, a move that often backfires.

For that they faced a threatened, misogynistic press and endured tepid record sales.

The legislation, which was approved by a 339-to-82 vote, faces a threatened veto because the Clinton administration considers the level of financing to be too low.

David Trimble, first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, faces a threatened challenge to his leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party and pressure to withdraw from government with Sinn Fein.

The Palestinians have yet to determine whether to seek full membership — such an act faces a threatened American veto in the Security Council — or to petition the General Assembly for enhanced observer status.

The bill faces a threatened veto by President Bill Clinton on other issues, but Cochran's provision is expected to survive.

This school of baby clown fish faces a threatened future.

He makes a face like a threatened grizzly bear: mouth wide open, snout muscles flexed, teeth bared.

It passed in the House of Representatives but died in the Senate in the face of a threatened Republican filibuster.

Mr. Lott put off a vote on the measure until next week in the face of a threatened filibuster by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, who objected to a provision that blocks further implementation of an Oregon law that allows physicians to assist terminally ill patients who seek to commit suicide.