Sentence examples for otherwise threatening from inspiring English sources

They are melting — leaving pavement with cracks, turning asphalt into washboard and otherwise threatening the stability of the road.

(The vast majority of those police homicide victims were armed or otherwise threatening the officer). But Butterfield could be forgiven his error, given the virtually exclusive media focus on black victims of police officers.

They can certainly disarm him and arrest him if they reasonably think that he's about to shoot them, or if he is otherwise threatening them (something that the police alleged here, but that the court said is a fact question for the jury).

As a responsible corporate citizen, we will review any complaints surrounding material that's in violation of the law, compromises our network, or is abusive or otherwise threatening to the safety of any individual or group.

Nor are any near-Earth objects, planetary or otherwise, threatening to slam into our planet on Dec. 21, said Don Yeomans, a planetary scientist who tracks near-Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Girls and women are generally not harassing people, grabbing their bodies or otherwise threatening them in public -- muttering obscenities, making pornographic suggestions, touching people they don't know in intimate ways, lurking on stoops, staring from benches, and following girls in cars.

And questions about their safety, whether proved real or otherwise, threaten to puncture the Volt's aura, auto analysts said.

Cruise passengers, they say, jam the streets, cause long lines at restaurants and attractions, and otherwise threaten to diminish if not destroy the city's laid-back style.

Yet President Obama has cited as a chief goal of this reform getting a handle on those costs, which otherwise threaten to bankrupt the government.

Berlioz specialists, like Davis and Dutoit, know how to sustain tension over long lyrical paragraphs, which otherwise threaten to meander into a meta-stylistic nowhere.

the technologies that might be used in the future to attempt to destroy or otherwise threaten commercial aircraft and the way in which those technologies can be countered effectively.