Sentence examples for threatening crowd from inspiring English sources

One old man, oddly out of place amid the threatening crowd, conceded Argentina had a little luck perhaps "because England played in our national colours, sky blue and white".

By then a threatening crowd of Tigers was forming around de Choiseul.

They said 300 soldiers with no live ammunition faced a large and threatening crowd of 6,000, demonstrating against a recent attack on a church in southern Egypt.

As ethnic rivalry mounts, Olanna and her cousin Arize are confronted by a threatening crowd, demanding to know if they are Igbo.

But there they were, most of them young, many in jeans, defying a threatening crowd and calling out slogans heavy with meaning.

The generals said that 300 soldiers with no live ammunition had faced an unexpectedly large and threatening crowd of 6,000 Coptic Christian demonstrators, a few of whom, they said, were armed with swords, sticks, stones and Molotov cocktails.

But this, after all, was Bara Stepanova, one of the heroines of the Society for a Merrier Present, a Dadaish troupe given to posing as riot police in the November demonstrations, and threatening the crowd with cucumbers and salamis.

He thought the advance of econometrics had gone too far, with too much ingenious maths and too little knowledge of economics, and he also deplored the fact that the growth of business studies in universities was threatening to crowd economics from the syllabus.

Chinese exports threaten to crowd theirs out with lower prices.

Forgivable during the crisis, this unbalanced budget threatens to crowd out private investment as the recovery takes hold.

But what can be found there also threatens to crowd out the time we spend actually reading books.