Sentence examples for said a menace from inspiring English sources

But he reminded Negro readers that they had a duty, too: to work harder, to behave better, and to stem the tide of "Negro crime," which was, he said, "a menace to a civilized people".

Mooney isn't so much a McDonagh character as McDonagh's idea of a Pinter character — Lenny in "The Homecoming," say, a menace who changes the established order just by being, and hating what others do with their being.

The two leaders will meet against a backdrop of claims and counterclaims about the justification for going to war and a continuing failure to find the unconventional weapons that both men said were a menace requiring immediate action.

These plants, he said, "are a menace to our oceans and our atmosphere, and they are a menace to public health".

It is not clear why Heywood agreed to go — he may have hoped to resolve matters – but on arrival he felt it was a "menacing situation", said a friend.

The rise of the business-school-trained M.B.A., he says, is "a menace to society".

The dog, however, as Almira Gulch in "The Wizard of Oz" might say, is a menace to the community.

Hank, the Texas authorities say, is a menace to society.

He wanted, he said, an actor whose steely menace would be artfully concealed by elegance -- a bogyman less bald than Darths Vader or Maul.

"Shame on you, Mr. Northman," Mr. Gus says with a menacing snarl.

Environmentalists said it was a menace to a subspecies of red squirrel.