Sentence examples for threatened like from inspiring English sources

The concept of solidarity goes out the window when jobs are threatened like this".

Here's something surprising: Worse than having a low social status is feeling like your status is insecure or threatened, like you might be losing social status.

One can easily sympathise with the Albanian minority – a majority within their own province – yet threatened like the other autonomous province of Vojvodina with subordination to Serbia.

"There have been money problems, but we've never been threatened like now," said Ms. Ferguson, whose school, Columbus Elementary, was decorated with a poster by students congratulating her on being invited to the State of the Union address.

Trophies could still be imported from nations where lions are listed as threatened — like Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa, all popular countries for American hunters — as long as they met the standards set under the special rule and the animals were killed legally.

He added: "A president who is threatened like Saddam Hussein does not release these tens of thousands of people if he is not confident that they will support the leadership, and that if there is a war they will support the leadership too".

There are other, larger matters threatening like thunderclouds around the Yankees these days.

And they are not armed, not threatening, like in Greece or Spain.

He was in drag, but the effect wasn't campy: he looked mutilated but threatening, like a zombie.

Underdressed tourists are reported to have been attacked outside mosques.The moral and sartorial laxity of tourists threatens, like everything else in Zanzibar, to become a political issue.

Some allergies are a minor nuisance, like seasonal allergies; others are life threatening, like peanut reactions.