Sentence examples for had begun threatening from inspiring English sources

The Obama administration had set an Oct. 31 deadline for wrapping up the talks, which had been going on for nearly a year, and officials had begun threatening to start moving toward a complete withdrawal.

Tribal leaders from across Yemen had begun threatening to descend on the capital with thousands of warriors to strike back at Mr. Saleh, whom they blamed for the violence.

"Additionally, Dr Fenton was advising that she had been treating Holmes, and that Holmes had stopped seeing her and had begun threatening her via text messages".

Al Shabab, a terrorist group in his home country of Somalia, had begun threatening his family, saying they were going to take his younger sister over unpaid, illegitimate taxes they had levied on the family business.

A local warlord who tolerated the provincial governor has begun threatening government workers.

Boko Haram has seized control of towns and villages in north-east Nigeria and has begun threatening neighbouring countries.

The militant Islamist group has seized control of towns and villages in north-east Nigeria and has begun threatening neighbouring countries.

While the public debate grinds along, the cops have begun threatening the occupants of the Nou Barris building, according to Ana Laura, a 27-year-old Colombian living in the squat.

Lately, the Europeans have begun threatening to exclude Greece from the Schengen passport-free travel zone, thereby shuttering its northern borders and, in effect, isolating the country from the rest of the continent.

And oh yes, in the weeks leading up to the inauguration of Donald Trump, several of those intelligence outfits found themselves in a knock-down, drag-out barroom brawl with our new tweeter-in-chief (who has begun threatening to downsize parts of the IC) over the possible Russian hacking of an American election and his relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

His family had begun to threaten Shamsia's family.