Sentence examples for threatening for years from inspiring English sources

He's been threatening for years.

After threatening for years to kill herself, she finally succeeded, driving her car into a tree.

HSBC's been threatening for years to move its headquarters to Asia.

The physician and health-policy expert, 57, has been threatening for years to open a brunch spot when he retires.

With Mosquito, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs finally deliver the raw-boned art-punk rebel-rock classic they've been threatening for years.

There's nothing quite like the intoxicating "Saint Behind the Glass," during which a Veracruz harp cascades all over a skiffly bass and drum to create the kind of perfectly measured admixture that the band had been threatening for years.

The Taliban have threatened for years to kill any Afghans who work with the American-led coalition, and while there are no specific tallies available, they have carried out those threats countless times.

Russian officials have threatened for years that they would bulk up on new intercontinental ballistic missiles, within the limits of arms control treaties, in an effort to overpower the American system, and that it could look like a new arms race.

Tim Clark of South Africa, second here in 2006 and a player who has threatened for years to break into the top echelons without ever quite making it, is moving in the right direction too: he's birdied 6, 7 and 10 to make it to -2. 4.49pm BST 1988 champion special.

2. TIME-LAPSE PAINTING Just as YouTube has made room for producers and consumers like Mr. Oakley who have been shut out of earlier pop-culture revolutions, it also accommodates art forms that other media have threatened for years to make obsolete; witness the many origami how-to videos on the site, as well as lute and gamelan recitals, polka dancing and happenings of the Dada-Yoko Ono kind.

Verdugo Hills Golf Course, threatened for years by residential development, could be saved if funds from a Los Angeles clean-water bond are used to construct a stormwater treatment facility on the site, officials said.