Sentence examples for instead threatening from inspiring English sources

Souring on Donald Trump, Republicans Pour Money Into Senate Races By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and RACHEL SHOREY Sep. 8, 2016 Many Republican groups, who either reject Mr. Trump or see his campaign as a lost cause, are instead threatening to bury Senate Democrats in negative advertising.

Bill Gates Is Right: USAID Is Not Just Foreign Aid, It Aids The U.S. Which would make you safer and healthier: Being the neighborhood hermit, locking and bolting your doors, not helping your neighbors but instead threatening them and allowing trash, sewage, rats and cockroaches to accumulate around your house?

But the president is refusing to relent on his demand for $5 billion to fund a border wall, instead threatening vaguely that the shutdown could last years.

Rather than arresting the suspect, a well-known Slovak business-mafia type, the police have instead threatened family members and have beaten some of them, the family says.

Ironically, the federal policies being pursued by proponents of a longer school day do nothing to increase and instead threaten to reduce engaged learning opportunities for children.

In the film, he instead threatens rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and the activities of Nasa's recently inaugurated Apollo programme, key to winning the space race.

But according to Ms. Torres, the nun instead threatened to denounce her for adultery because Pilar was fathered by a man whom she met shortly after separating from her husband.

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China had refused to meet on the sidelines of the meeting with Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, and instead threatened additional actions if Japan did not release the captain.

If a drug dealer resisted arrest or refused to be brought to a police station and instead threatened a citizen with a gun or knife, "you can kill him", Duterte said.

In one instance an employee refused to remove a complainant's details from the company's system and instead threatened to "continue to call at more inconvenient times like Sunday lunchtime".

New bureaucracies are being created to take on the responsibilities of the ones being scrapped.Thus a flagship reform has become a messy compromise designed to comfort politicians rather than patients; a change intended to improve efficiency instead threatens to be both chaotic and costly.