Sentence examples for false threats from inspiring English sources

Still, one strategy, Mr. Pate and other experts said, is to increase the penalties for making false threats.

Anyone making "false threats," like joking about a bomb or a weapon, can be fined $1,000 to $2,000.

The president and his subordinates try to justify their policies by conjuring false threats and engaging in deceptive dialectics.

He said that he fears that such action would be a repeat of the use of exaggerated and false threats that led to the Iraq war.

He said that he was concerned that such action would repeat the use of exaggerated and false threats that led to the Iraq war.

Methods described in the torture memos include stripping, exposure to extremes of temperature and light, false threats to family members, and the use of dogs.

Mr. Gallagher said the process of the Federal Reserve assuming oversight of the funds would take too long and was a "false threat".

The farmer, Dwight W. Watson, 50, of Whitakers, N.C., was convicted of making a false threat to detonate explosives and of destroying federal property.

"Even as this may be a false threat," he said in the memo, he assured doctors and other workers that the medical center was "prepared to address this and other potential threats of terrorism".

Kenneth W. Smith Jr. was arrested Friday on charges of making a false threat to the Philadelphia police, who recalled a flight bound for Dallas and marched the former boyfriend, Christopher Shell, off the plane on Thursday.

"We absolutely should use whatever opportunity and tactic we can to repeal and replace Obamacare," said Mr. Jindal, deeming the prospect of a shutdown nothing more than "a false threat" and "scare tactics" from Mr. Obama's administration.