Sentence examples for intent on threatening from inspiring English sources

Before Malik's arrival, the city was controlled by "armed clan-based militiamen high on drugs," intent on threatening those who refused to "do their bidding".

They preach violent resistance too readily, yet over the past 17 months they have been trying to control the militant groups intent on threatening Israel with rockets – imperfectly perhaps, but not a single Israeli citizen has been killed (alas, one immigrant worker was) by a rocket since the Gaza bombing stopped in January 2009.

In 2015, Hansen worked on the Supreme Court case Elonis v. United States, in which he argued that "criminal convictions for threatening another person online should require a subjective intent to threaten the recipient of the message, rather than merely showing that a reasonable person would find the message threatening".

Three years after O'Neal was banished to Miami, Bryant seemed intent on leaving, his trade demands threatening to cut down the 2007-8 season before its start.

Addressing a Franco-British Council conference at Lancaster House in central London, Grieve told the audience of judges, diplomats and academics that: "Our [Conservative party] intent, if pursued, threatens to make the [European Convention on human rights] inoperable.

The intent was to threaten the safety of black lives.

So intent on vanquishing the enemy that she threatened her own men with violence, she herself recoiled at the idea of bloodshed.

He is intent on avoiding another one.

But he was intent on keeping his home, even as officials in Ross Township threatened to evict him over the dilapidated property about 100 miles west of Manhattan, which lacked a proper sewage system and was built without the necessary permits.

It doesn't threaten sabotage, like a criminal organization intent on extortion might.

Dortmund looked intent on making amends for their Bundesliga troubles and constantly threatened to hurt Zenit with swift and penetrating counter-attacks.