Sentence examples for implied threats from inspiring English sources

The laws against criminal threat make it illegal to threaten property, so don't say "I'm incontinent" to anybody other than a doctor or it's an implied threat to urine stain other people's property, and implied threats are just as illegal as literal threats.

Putin's relatively soft tone in the interview notwithstanding, some of his statements sounded like implied threats.

"Attempts to change the status quo with implied threats of force are not permitted by the international community".

The plain fact is that the Obama administration achieved its objective of persuading Israel to refrain from a premature attack largely without explicit or implied threats.

A brilliant, sometimes abrasive infighter, he used a formidable arsenal of facts, bluffs, whispers, implied threats and, when necessary, pyrotechnic fits of anger to press his positions.

Don't underestimate the levers a government holds, the implied threats it can wield or the power in signalling its strong intent.

Spitzer was furious at what he took as an implied threat.

But the juxtaposition of the two points could be read as an implied threat.

But Phongthep Thepkanjana, an adviser to the party and a former minister, brushes off the implied threat.

Think about Mr. Sharon's implied threat to force Mr. Arafat out of the Palestinian leadership -- perhaps to destroy him physically.

To anyone familiar with the violent history of the subcontinent since Partition, it's hard to think of a more incendiary insult or a darker implied threat.