Sentence examples for set threatened from inspiring English sources

As Paul Greenberg documents, tuna, like other large, somewhat glamorous animals, capture our attention as they pass through the benchmarks we set (threatened, endangered) on the way to extinction.

The story of their appearance is itself extraordinary – the musicians scattered to the winds since 2011, now reassembled "Blues Brothers style" – and even though there were glitches on this occasion and the set threatened to overrun (no sprawling Africa Express show has ever finished promptly on time), they managed to see off more than just the threat of rain.

Nodding as much to the group's debut "Notes from the Underground" as its 2012 live release "Free Magic," the opening (mostly) acoustic set threatened to steal the show, even as John Medeski's fireworks on organ, Clavinet and Mellotron have become something of the band's signature over the years.

True, the title character (played by the fierce-smiling Ashley Brown) still works the sort of sorcery that only high-end Broadway budgets allow: she flies; she slides up banisters; she makes cuddly toys turn as menacing as Chucky; and whenever Bob Crowley's spectacular Edwardian set threatens to fall apart, she restores order to chaos with a wave of her gloved hands.

The machine's ability to play PC games on a TV set threatens to disrupt Valve's plans to launch Steam Machines - living-room PCs running its Steam games platform built by third parties.

Such an ambitious setting threatened to be unwieldy but the pure richness in detail make roaming Los Santos almost as rewarding as any structured mission.

While some rooms, particularly in the upper galleries, lose the viewer when the overly dramatic sets threaten to overshadow Gaultier's status as a couturier, gowns in one gallery have captions on how many hours they took to make – making the craft of an atelier explicit.

The findings from the report are set to threaten the UN's goal to end the global Aids crisis by 2030.

The government is set to threaten to stop buying some expensive cancer drugs if manufacturers do not cut their prices, Newsnight has learned.

Up a set, he threatened to break Federer's serve repeatedly in the second set before Federer finally took control of the tiebreaker at 4-4.

Our results demonstrate that all metrics target endangerment more efficiently than by chance, but each selects unique sets of top-ranking ecoregions, which overlap only partially, and include different sets of threatened species.