Sentence examples for points under threat from inspiring English sources

Instead, the district governor has asked the Çeşme bus company not to take refugees on board, and taxi drivers are banned from driving them to the relevant drop-off points, under threat of having their licence revoked for 60 days.

Job security: UNDER THREAT.

Yet that selling-point is under threat.

After much debate, the City Council voted last month to allow some of its members to attend closed-door negotiations with the university, only to reverse itself at its next meeting when it was pointed out, under threat of a lawsuit, that elected officials should not be conducting business in secret.

David Moyes' record-low haul of 64 points may come under threat yet.

The strategies they employed are largely the making of Washington insiders who force-feed message points on candidates under threat of being written off by their national party infrastructure.

"Why take matters to the point of placing under threat the entire internationally agreed structure of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, including its core, the 1972 ABM Treaty?" said a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Alexander Yakovenko, in a statement.

From society's point of view, compliance under threat is much to be preferred to noncompliance followed by arrest, trial, conviction, sentence, and punishment.

His position at the head of the European Tour looked under threat at one point.

Pastoral resources, including pastures, water points and livestock paths, are under threat due to agricultural encroachment in many agro-pastoral areas of West Africa.

Among its achievements was forcing the government to recognise gay marriage and abolish the death penalty.Yet some in the profession now fret that this independence is under threat and point to the appointment of judges to the highest courts.