In the ambulance, the emergency medical workers held together my arm, but their questions threatened to unravel my subterfuge as an acceptable mate to this accomplished young woman.
Those questions threaten to undermine some of the feel-good locavore story line, not to mention my weekend forays for produce.
But a nagging set of questions threatens to constrain the program, say some of the social service agencies administering the money: How should these dollars be distributed, and for whose benefit?
The dispute is about how and why this is happening, and what can be done about it -- and these questions threaten to divide world opinion as nothing has since the collapse of Communism.
It was a defining tension: the very conceptual tools with which he pursued life's most desperate questions threatened to keep him forever at a distance from the connections he struggled to make.
Geohot will be joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt in SF this September to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles that has captured the imagination of everyone from Tesla to BMW to Apple, even as safety questions threaten to jeopardize its push toward the mainstream.
A reporter who drove up the driveway seeking a foreman or family member to interview was stopped, questioned, threatened with trespassing charges, and ejected.
In a blow to dinner party chauvinists everywhere, before the relative merits of older women drivers could be subjected to more detailed public analysis, the woman in question threatened to go to the Swedish state ombudsman.
Now, however, the Iraq question threatens to force his hand.It is not hard to guess, therefore, which leader Mr Bush intends to visit on his way to a Bangkok summit of Asia-Pacific countries.
It is also true that, while Spaniards rail against bankers and politicians, many quietly recognise that the whole society was complicit in the boom.Federalist papering over the cracksWhile this all helps hold Spain together at one level, the Catalonian question threatens to pull it apart at another.
