Sentence examples for menacing threatening from inspiring English sources

In a commencement address at the University of Michigan, in May, he said, "When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us".

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

What if rather than succumbing to generations of social conditioning, that tells us certain of us are nothing more than the worthless, menacing, threatening, criminal other, we opened our hearts, and said hello?

The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes".

Boko Haram is not the only security menace threatening Nigeria.

It's the first phase of a four-year strategy to wean us off single-use plastics, which have gone from a convenience miracle to a worldwide menace, threatening oceans and wildlife across the globe.

Where the ghetto once seemed a menace, threatening to swallow the city like an encroaching desert, now it often appears, in scholarly articles and the popular press, as an endangered habitat.

That is, having come to see inflation as a menace threatening to redraw the line between the public and private spheres in the industrial democracies, they capitalized on a lifetime of shared experience, including early years in the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department, to do something about it.

Although Ronaldo was his team's most dangerous player by a considerable distance, he lacked his usual menace, threatening only sporadically.

There are, of course, on a larger scale and with human actors, the renowned precedents of Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky recalling the Nazi menace threatening Russia in 1939.

The player is Gillian Seed, a "Junker", part of a task force charged with combating a new menace threatening the world: an invasion from Terminator-like beings called Snatchers.