Sentence examples for threatening force from inspiring English sources

The second facet that has marked India's external relations is deterrence, the dissuasion of others from using or threatening force.

If these voters' first exposure to politics is one in which they are viewed as an outside, threatening force then it risks alienating them in a way that will reverberate for years to come".

He vetoed first an American resolution calling on both belligerents to withdraw and on other states to refrain from using or threatening force in the area, and then a Russian resolution which left out the second part of the exhortation.

We've now got ourselves in a position where we have to go to war; we can't back out after threatening force the way we have and I object to having been put in this position.

In 1994, he supported the administration position by voting to establish federal criminal and civil penalties for using or threatening force to block abortion clinics or against patients and workers in them.

That's the whole point of threatening force: to make people act against their own judgment.

Whether all of the threatening forces rise up against him in the next 10 days remains to be seen.

On the baleful side of the balance beam: Dozens of threatening forces will continue to batter investor confidence and provoke scary visions of a recession.

The royal family and the generals in Cairo are clearly concerned about American resolve, and are doing the obvious: taking out insurance with threatening forces.

The soldier threatened force.

China said it would veto a resolution that threatened force.