Sentence examples for matters threatening from inspiring English sources

There are other, larger matters threatening like thunderclouds around the Yankees these days.

"A Fortune-Teller Told Me" gets off to a sluggish start, with Terzani's musings on metaphysical matters threatening to bog things down.

Whenever matters threaten to drag, the voice-over and jazzy music propel the story forward.

Police officers were sent in when matters threatened to boil over.

This week, matters threatened to take an even more negative turn when Rory McIlroy admitted to concern over the Zika virus threat to Rio.

The game was becoming increasingly niggly as Spurs tried to stem the tide and matters threatened to boil over after Erik Lamela caught Montero with an elbow as the Ecuador winger closed down on the Argentine.

Claims the European Court of Human Rights can set law on social matters threatens Parliamentary sovereignty, a former lord chief justice has said.

► "Few matters threaten the integrity of science more than scientists not being allowed to warn the public about legitimate hazards uncovered in the course of scientific research," wrote Science Editor-in-Chief Marcia McNutt in this week's Science editorial.

The dysfunction that has characterized US politics for the past decade, the failure of Congress to act, and the multiple attempts to repeal "Obamacare" rather than dealing with pressing matters, threatens our Constitutional principles.

The Company was not inclined to involve itself in further expense for colonization, and matters threatened to come to a halt, when someone — very likely van Rensselaer himself — evolved the plan of granting large estates to men willing to pay the cost of settling and operating them.

In 2004, the Scot fell out furiously with Magnier over the matter, threatening court action.