Sentence examples for threatened behind from inspiring English sources

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When President Obama needed every Democrat in Congress to back his health care plan in 2009, Representative Anthony D. Weiner threatened behind the scenes to torpedo the package in favor of a more sweeping measure.

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While presented openly as a well-meant attempt to bring 16 hardline fighting units back wholly under Ahrar al-Sham's command, Hashem al-Sheikh was in reality committing a semi-coup: threatening behind the scenes to break-away with his hardline loyalists unless his strategic opinions weren't better acknowledged.

Liverpool only threatened when behind to goals from Chico Flores and Nathan Dyer, with Suárez glancing home a Gerrard free-kick to offer belated hope, but a third in stoppage time from Jonathan de Guzmán underlined the difference in penetration.

His wife was so sad about leaving and so terrified of flying that she threatened to stay behind, but they boarded the plane, and when they got out it was in another world.

Last week he threatened to reveal "behind the scenes information", probably a variant of the incriminating recorded evidence of corruption among some of his rivals that Mr Ahmadinejad had played before parliament in February.As things now stand, eight candidates are still in the running.

Those who fell behind were threatened with termination.

For that, he is threatened with a century behind bars.

Holding a life belt secured to the raft by a long line, he reached the struggling crew member just as the raft threatened to leave him behind forever.

Once Dynamo went behind, they threatened but the home team had been restricted to long-range efforts in the first half with Andriy Shevchenko coming close and Yarmolenko shooting wide from seven yards after Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen had parried a Goran Popov shot.

So, any national government that proves reluctant, particularly ours, must be shamed, threatened and dragged behind the Euro-express.

The reporter, Zhang Min, said in an interview that Mr. Chen was so angry that he threatened to remain behind in Washington.

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