Sentence examples for threatening someone from inspiring English sources

Fifth, five items referring to threatening and insulting were classified as "threats and insults" (e.g., threatening someone to make him or her scared, insulting someone because the other person is homosexual).

"I think they're singing along with me, threatening someone else.

Sometimes threatening someone with jail is going to be the only thing that will prompt compliance".

And is it threatening someone to tell them that a particular vote could be used against them in a campaign?

The justice bill includes a compulsory jail term for anyone threatening someone with a knife, he said.

He is being detained under the United Nations legal code on charges of threatening someone in a brothel he owns.

In those days I could threaten someone like that.

It should not be acceptable to abuse or threaten someone because they look differently".

When the state threatens someone's welfare, it makes them feel vulnerable.

"If Ronnie Kray walked into a pub and threatened someone," says O'Mahoney, "they'd walk out, buy a gun and fucking shoot him in the head".

There are cases in which the site would disclose names, Mr. O'Byrne said; for example, if a commenter threatened someone's life.