Sentence examples for grow threatening from inspiring English sources

Several former I.R.S. commissioners, as well as tax policy officials who had served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, said at the time that they were shocked at the failure of the I.R.S. to move against these business owners and warned that unless enforcement action was taken swiftly the movement would grow, threatening the integrity of the income tax system.

A reason for concern is the possibility of conflicts increasing, as human and livestock populations in rural Ethiopia continue to grow, threatening the sustainability of the local livelihoods and the emergence of retaliation (Dovie et al. 2006; Lagendijk and Gusset 2008).

Moreover, America's teenage population is growing, threatening an explosion of youth crime.

And this number is still growing, threatening to take away the Internet as you and I have known it.

As the financial crisis grew threatening last year, history buff Irene Hoover watched with a foreboding sense that the U.S. could be on the verge of another Great Depression.

He was a lawyer and a planter who sought to insulate his home state of Virginia from what he feared as early as the 1790s to be the growing, threatening powers of the national government.

It's important that startups audit not only those businesses whose bottom lines they will immediately threaten (pending market penetration), but also those they may grow to threaten.

Her family said Mr. Cruz did not take the breakup well and grew increasingly threatening.

When hair continues to grow, it threatens to betray our biological roots or our so-called "natural" identity to others.

As public health spending continues to grow, it threatens to widen America's deficit and eclipse other public programmes, such as infrastructure and education.

After an unpromising blind date, a young woman is stalked by the hopeful young man, whose unwillingness to take no for an answer grows increasingly threatening.