Sentence examples for illegal threat from inspiring English sources

The issue Roberts wanted to understand — when does communication cross the line into being an illegal threat?

And when a collector is broke, Jimmy said, "it's easy to go right over to that gray area and tell somebody, 'You're going to jail if you don't pay me' " — an illegal threat.

The complaint said that a statement by a Wal-Mart spokesman, David Tovar, on Monday on the CBS Evening News — that "there could be consequences" if employees did not report for work — constituted an illegal threat meant to discourage workers from exercising their federally protected right to protest.

In a keenly awaited ruling, France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat, today overturned the burkini ban because, the judges said, "it represents a severe and manifestly illegal threat to fundamental freedoms that are the freedom of coming and going, freedom of conscience and personal freedom".

Last week, China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a US Navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an illegal threat to peace which only went to show its defense installations in the area were necessary.

Only prudent diplomacy by both sides — not illegal threats of military action or sabotage — can produce positive results.

Despite the lack of illegal threats, the site was taken down and the authors prosecuted under a racketeering act.

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) 1 Oct 13 Pres.Obama's presumption that Iran is negotiating because of his illegal threats and sanctions is disrespectful of a nation,macho and wrong.

In announcing the suit, Mr. Cuomo charged Intel with using "illegal threats, coercion, fines and bullying to preserve its stranglehold on the market".

The National Labor Relations Board said on Monday that it planned to file a complaint charging Cablevision with making illegal threats and offering improper inducements to its employees in the Bronx to discourage them from voting to unionize.

Though the government makes supportive noises in defence of both scientific research and lawful business involving animals, few prosecutions have been brought against animal-rights activists who have crossed the line from legal protest to illegal threats and violence.