Sentence examples for threatening attitude from inspiring English sources

When alarmed the mantid assumes a "threatening" attitude by raising and rustling its wings (if it is a winged species) and often displays bright warning coloration.

A high court judge last week awarded a former trader for Cantor Fitzgerald about $1.5 million in back pay, saying he had been driven from his job by his boss's bullying behavior, constant swearing and threatening attitude.

These are the possibility of a rupture with France, not on account of misunderstandings between the two Governments, but because of the uncompromising attitude of a part of the French press, and, in the second place, the threatening attitude of the men working in the coal mines of Asturias and the restlessness of the working classes in general.

According to the official version of the riot, bands of youths from fifteen to twenty years old gathered in the streets of Vienna and took a threatening attitude toward the cardinal, finally throwing stones at the palace windows when they became incensed over the presence of Catholic youths who were cheering the prelate as he returned from preaching at Saint Stefan's Cathedral.

A nationalist revival affected many Frenchmen who for a decade had grown increasingly anxious about what they regarded as the puzzling and threatening attitude of Germany's post-Bismarckian leadership; they looked once more to the army as the nation's bulwark, and its prestige was on the rise.

Furthermore, a meeting held at a military base can convey an aggressive or threatening attitude, which may not be desired.

Avoiding inconsistent information prevents them from threatening position which could modify their attitude.

Discipline can be a major issue especially when students confront teachers and fellow students with an in-your-face attitude threatening with either law suits or gang retaliation.

He is a ferocious defender, moving with dangerous purpose and power and menacing his opponents with a formidable combination of threatening arms, body and attitude.

Mr. Vadas, then president of the sport-fishing advocacy group Perch America, and thousands of other fishermen furious at his dismissive attitude threatened to litter Mr. Trotter's lawn with golf balls.

The muscles of the boy's neck stiffen, his jaw goes taut, his whole attitude becomes more threatening.