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He has also faced allegations of domestic abuse, and he once shot and wounded a neighbor's Rottweiler that he said had been menacing his young son.

If the message had been menacing - and if Chambers had intended it to create fear or apprehension among reasonable people or been indifferent to that risk - the court would not have overturned his conviction.

A few weeks earlier, he raced to the shore to discourage a group of angry fishermen who were preparing to attack a foreign vessel that had been menacing locals.

However, appearing on the same programme, Mr Darling said he had been "menaced" while on the campaign trail.

In those years we felt almost physically defiled: our security had been menaced, our survival was at risk, our national soil had been violated by the Japanese atrocity at Pearl Harbor, which had left nearly 2,500 Americans dead.

Ms. Ochoa, winner of Amnesty International's Enduring Spirit Award, had been menaced by death threats for years, often in notes devised from newspaper clippings that appeared under her door.

Mr. Berezovsky and his lawyers belittled Mr. Abramovich's business competence and intelligence, saying he had been menaced into accepting $1.3 billion from Mr. Abramovich in 2001 for his Sibneft holding, while Mr. Abramovich sold his own share in the company in 2005 for $11.9 billion.

Because at some point during her confirmation hearing, she told the Senate committee that using guns to protect teachers and kids in schools should be a local decision, and to prove why this was necessary she mentioned a Wyoming elementary school that had been menaced by a grizzly bear so they probably had a gun.

It should come as no surprise to regular readers of this column that the main reason I wanted to move -- my darkest secret reason -- was to escape the clutches of the evil GE Profile Top-Mount No-Frefrigeratorrathatthas has been menacing me for the past few years.

In addition to that, Qualcomm has been menacing smartphone makers, telling them that they can't get Qualcomm chipsets if they don't pay those royalty fees.

Mr Masih told us they move constantly, trying to stay one step ahead of the anonymous callers who have been menacing them.