Sentence examples for pretty threatened from inspiring English sources

As one State Department official put it: "From the Iranian point of view, they're probably feeling pretty threatened in Afghanistan right now.

"It's not very good for that kind of relationship," she said, "if five people stop you when you're walking down the street and say, 'You changed my life.' So having been married to somebody who was pretty threatened when I began to get famous, I'm leery of subjecting someone to that".

"The Arndale was pretty threatening.

People can get pretty threatening when they don't get their way".

And it looked pretty threatening at that time.

That's pretty threatening for any comfortable Christian.

Perhaps when her lawyer heard House Speaker John Boehner assert that some IRS people "should go to jail", he thought that was pretty threatening.

"We had known from the start that there was a remote possibility that some extreme opponents might try to leverage this, but now it's being pretty openly threatened," said Brian Bosma, the Republican speaker of the House, who says the right-to-work legislation will improve Indiana's ability to recruit new businesses.

He says, 'What are you trying to hide from me in the zoning?' He said, 'I own the newspaper.' " Mr. Shea continued, "My takeaway was that this guy is pretty much threatening me".

The iPad has arrived, and, yes, it's powerful, pretty and threatens to render a significant number of the world's consumer devices extinct.

In 1997, during the first 48 hours of one of Hell.com's private events, the badass brains behind 0100101110101101 acquired the site's code and, much to the chagrin of the site's owners, posted an open copy of the site, still viewable here.Hell.com reacted pretty severely, threatening to sue for copyright infringement, among other things, in one of my favorite strongly-worded emails of all time.