I believe that we are supposed to fight when attacked (we were not); when we are imminently threatened (no evidence for this); or to defend what's right (as the first President Bush did in the Persian Gulf war).
In the past few days, there had been reports in the Times of India and elsewhere that Rushdie's life was being threatened — hard evidence that a fatwa the Ayatollah Khomeini issued more than two decades ago, ordering Rushdie's death, has hardly burned itself out.
If you married because you felt threatened, gather evidence of the threat: emails, letters, summaries of conversations.
One evidence-based recommendation that generates large amounts of work for clinicians inevitably threatens other evidence-based interventions since there is only a finite number of hours in the day.
Mansfield and Stokes extorted Fisk, threatening to reveal evidence of financial illegalities.
Defying stereotypes of an isolated, threatening, sanctioned country, evidence of change – both superficial and fundamental – is everywhere.
They might also obstruct or disrupt pending proceedings by destroying evidence, threatening potential witnesses, or targeting the hearings themselves...
It has been claimed that Johnson blackmailed Kennedy into offering him a place on the ticket after threatening him with evidence of his womanising, provided by the FBI director J Edgar Hoover.
That same night, the documentary's other star, a very young George Stephanopoulos, takes a call from an operative who is threatening to release evidence that Bill Clinton is the father of an illegitimate African-American child.
People are also attempting to extort Ashley Madison clients by threatening to send evidence of their membership directly to friends, family or colleagues, Evans said.
As the police and Batman (Michael Keaton) deal with the riot, one of the guests at the ceremony, a businessman named Max Shreck Christopher Walkenn), is kidnapped and taken to Penguin, who desires to become a citizen of Gotham and blackmails Shreck into helping him by threatening to expose evidence of his corporate crimes.
