Sentence examples for threatened by problems from inspiring English sources

"Mo' Better Blues," a melancholy drama about the fragile bonds of an artist to his art, stars Denzel Washington as Bleek Gilliam, a prodigious trumpeter whose career is threatened by problems with women, money, bandmates, and especially his manager, Giant (Lee himself), a compulsive gambler.

It is threatened by structural problems in the tower.

Whereas, if the country is threatened by great problems, likability is not a major matter.

(He staged a free, outside-the-museum, extended-hours exhibition to create community support when the project, now under construction, was threatened by budgetary problems).

In the 1930s he also acted as Argentina's leading trade diplomat when his country's prosperity was threatened by the problems of Britain, the main market for its meat and grains.

He said the country's domestic prosperity was threatened by the problems in Iraq, calling attention to the fact that the United States had just suffered its 500th casualty there.

Silva, now running his own small business in London, says the capital is thriving but is threatened by two problems that afflict the economy: a chronic shortage of housing, and poverty.

But they also feel that their neighborhood happiness is threatened by global problems that are beyond their power to control: terrorism, rising health care costs, looming public debt, illegal immigration, global warming and the rise of China and India.

Doggie hearts are also threatened by weight problems, and the effects of canine obesity weigh heavily on the cardiovascular system.

Enrollments in both private and public benefits continue to be threatened by numerous problems, including health insurance companies and state governments receiving inaccurate data from federal computer systems about their would-be enrollees.

The legitimacy of functional explanations in biology is threatened by a problem first identified by Hempel: the problem of functional equivalence.