Sentence examples for threatening harms from inspiring English sources

The question is especially important from a feminist point of view, since it is to be expected that in a patriarchal society men frequently hold positions of social, legal, and/or institutional power over women and are thus positioned to withhold important benefits from women who refuse them sexual access, in addition to threatening harms and penalties.

For many cancer prevention interventions, the ratio of life-threatening disease avoided to life threatening harms would be favorable in the high-risk group but not favorable when extrapolated to the general population.

It requires skill to focus our anger on the actions -- not the actor -- that are either causing (or threatening) harm or blocking our path.

We need to remember that any tool or technology can be abused or misused and that accidents and negligence can already routinely cause or threaten,; harms on a massive scale (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl).

They threatened harm to herself and to her unborn baby".

Some threatened harm to the judge and his family.

Stalin's prisoners signed confessions when interrogators threatened harm to their families.

"Patients threatened to stalk me, patients threatened to cut me up in multiple pieces, patients threatened harm on my family," she said.

Mental health professionals already have an established duty to take reasonable steps to protect identifiable persons when a patient threatens harm.

The court could uphold the standard, or it could require that jurors be asked to convict only if they believe the speaker truly intended to threaten harm.

For example, although the publishers say that "Congress never varied" from its purported view that unauthorized "anthologies"[ FN 11 ] threaten harm to the incentives of authors, the legislative history does not indicate any such thing.