Sentence examples for pointed threat from inspiring English sources

She recalls her pointed threat to make a commotion over the cancellation, to get the word out there.

In a news conference Thursday afternoon, she warned that Republicans should "have some dismay about the door that they're opening" because a Democratic president could call the gun-control epidemic claiming thousands of lives every year an emergency — a pointed threat on an issue Republicans hold dear: gun rights.

In July, the National Rifle Association, which historically has stayed out of judicial nomination fights, came out against Justice Sotomayor and said it would include senators' confirmation vote in its legislative scorecard on gun-rights issues for the 2010 election, a pointed threat to Democrats from conservative-leaning states.

If a new video purportedly by cyber-group "Anonymous" is to be believed, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has become the focus of a pointed threat.

That new focus began to emerge over the past several days, and it coincides with a noticeable drop in pointed threats from North Korea, raising tentative hopes for a way out of one of the worst crises over North Korea in years.

Yet the letter sent to Mr. Felder by the governor — no stranger to political hardball — seemed to be banking on his power of persuasion, rather than more pointed threats.

As the stalker's phone chatter about Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers turned into pointed threats ― "more of a game, really," Ghostface says ― Barrymore wanted to "hyperventilate" in real time. .

Demands by the bank for repayment were met by threats and pointed remarks about his political power.

Focusing on a counterterrorism unit, the series began filming in November 2001, and is so swift in its action, so pointed about post-9/11 threats, that it is easily the best suspense show around.

The threat — the most pointed warning yet to the Lebanese government, which is divided on the Syrian conflict — was delivered in a diplomatic note that Syria's ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul Karim Ali, presented to Lebanese authorities, Syria's state news agency, SANA, reported.

I can write this article without the fear that an FBI agent is going to show up at my door tomorrow and start asking pointed questions and issuing veiled threats, or that my phone will be bugged tomorrow.