Sentence examples for paid threatening from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sachs said the two heirs and Ms. Anthony were mainly interested in being paid, threatening a lawsuit before performances of three works in June at the New Dance Group.

Miffed, he returned with a local union official and they "extorted" six months' pay, threatening her with a traumatic and lengthy battle in a workers' court.

The fight over how much each firm should pay threatened to derail the talks.

First, the ever-expanding (yet still inadequate) access to higher education; second, an almost 30-year pattern of rising expenses and costs being shifted from public funding to students and their families; and third, a rapidly approaching point at which rising costs outstripping families' ability to pay, threatens the continued viability of the syste.

But in lean years, they've also insisted on high pay, threatening to jump to a competitor.

Around 70 drivers and 20 on-board staff will now walk out on Friday and Saturday in a row over pay, threatening disruption to services between London, Paris and Brussels.

ITV production workers, journalists and other staff are staging a 24-hour strike in a dispute over pay, threatening programmes and planning a protest outside the TV giant's annual meeting.

It has been suggested that anorexia can be linked to a heightened perception of threat, and animal research has shown oxytocin treatment lessened the amount of attention paid to threatening facial expressions.

is working to persuade his colleagues to vote against the supplemental if it isn't paid for, "threatening to rebuild a left-right coalition that nearly took down the last war funding measure Democrats pushed through Congress".

The outrage over his pay threatened to engulf the exchange itself.

"Low pay threatens the great strides that have been made in gender equality in recent decades, because it undermines women's economic independence.