Sentence examples for perhaps threatening from inspiring English sources

The news was particularly embarrassing and perhaps threatening for FIFA's president, Sepp Blatter.

And the newest developments will most likely worsen congestion on its main arteries, perhaps threatening its cloistered serenity.

President Obama could have been more adamant in dealing with Republicans, perhaps threatening to use constitutional powers to ignore the debt ceiling if Congress abrogated its responsibility to raise it.

It seemed improbable that the Russians would agree to consider, after only a few brief talks with a new team of American bargainers, what to them must seem radical and perhaps threatening departures.

Also directed by Mr. Clark, it seems likely to enter the Metacritic.com register at an even higher number, perhaps threatening to displace the legendary Pauly Shore vehicle, "Bio-Dome," at the top of the list.

Appignanesi, who (with John Forrester) documented the early years of the psychoanalytic movement in "Freud's Women," examines the new order ushered in by Freud's delving "with a radical coolness which had no truck with conventional morality" into "something mysterious and perhaps threatening, constantly in need of investigation, attention or control".

With labor talks temporarily stalled and the lockout eating into the regular season, the NBA owners have threatened to revert back to their original 47% BRI split/hard cap offer, while the NBA players have threatened--or perhaps threatened to threaten--to decertify their union and challenge the lockout under antitrust law.

Perhaps threatened by Timehop as a superior nostalgia engine, in March Facebook started showing "on this day" reminders in newsfeeds.

Two days ago — perhaps threatened by a possible Shafik "victory" — Morsi had promised a coalition government, with cabinet members from outside the Brotherhood, and an independent prime minister.

In this atmosphere of political upheaval, there are signs that the royal family, which has commanded tremendous respect and allegiance in past decades, feels underappreciated and perhaps threatened.

She then offered — or perhaps threatened — to expose him to her tutorial method should he agree to visit her study at Cambridge's Newnham College.