Sentence examples for threat fulfilled from inspiring English sources

The threat is so pervasive in the cultural environment that, according to Brison, girls "enter womanhood freighted with postmemories of sexual violence" (2002, 87)[1], and years of peremptory warnings and cautionary tales lead many victims to experience rape as "a threat fulfilled" (Cahill 2001, 164).

In a 2006 study by Zadra, the threat was vanquished in only seventeen per cent of recurring dreams that contained a menacing element; the subject woke up thirty-seven per cent of the time; and in forty per cent the threat was fulfilled.

'We were always looking closer to home and were right to do so.' Somalia was thought to be on its way to becoming a terrorist haven in the aftermath of 9/11 but that potential threat was never fulfilled, according to a recent UN report.

You'll throw me out now, but you might live to regret it.' " Mr. Gelman may have fulfilled another threat in the killings that, according to the police, he started just past 5 a.m.

Last week Governor Pat Quinn fulfilled his threat to lawmakers that if they did not come up with a proposed solution to the pension crisis, they will face consequences.

I've been in situations where a reporter demanded disclosures which would harm many, and threatened public embarrassment, and the reporter fulfilled that threat when I refused to do harm.

One day, the threats may even be fulfilled.

Finally fulfills threat to fire longtime banker Milton Drysdale amid allegations of double-dealing; Granny snipes that Drysdale is "such a liar he has to get someone else to call his dog for him".

See map: Childhood is under threat from poverty Fulfilling childrens rights breaks that cycle.

When the militants fulfilled their unspeakable threat to blow themselves and their schoolchild hostages up if Russian troops stormed the school, only two mines went off.

Similar threats have been made in the past but never fulfilled.