Sentence examples for threatened to borrow from inspiring English sources

Only when Mrs. Campos threatened to borrow the fifteen hundred dollars from her parents did Mr. Campos give in, disgusted, defeated — as so often through the years, if a man wishes to preserve his marriage, he gives in.

Korla and the others are hoping to pressure Apple to release the iPad 3 ahead of schedule and are threatening to borrow tactics from protesters in Egypt and other countries.

Just last month, the bank's president, Jean-Claude Trichet, threatened to "pre-emptively" raise borrowing costs.

He stopped by Tante Taube's house to collect the old pistol with which his father had threatened to shoot him when he'd asked to borrow money.

The next summer the two joined battle again as the Republicans threatened to let the Treasury run out of authority to borrow, risking default, without steep spending cuts.

The son-in-law came over one day last fall and threatened to cause trouble if the Bakers didn't let him borrow the car.

The E.C.B. is also buying Spanish and Italian bonds on the open market to stem pressure on their borrowing costs, which have threatened to reach ruinous levels.

Complicating matters further, Congressional Republicans have threatened to refuse to raise the government's borrowing limit later next month, meaning the country could default on some of its debt.

Some of the groups seeking changes maintain that the proposals threaten to make borrowing for a home far more expensive and would unfairly deny mortgage brokers the right to earn certain fees.

Indeed, few took Rush Limbaugh seriously when he and other conservatives borrowed a page from the liberal playbook and threatened to move if Obamacare passed in 2010.

The Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, threatened to block the Nassau bailout unless Albany increased the city's borrowing authority by $4 billion and delivered aid to Buffalo schools.