Sentence examples for threatening speed from inspiring English sources

The Americans would miss his threatening speed.

In both, Macgregor showed threatening speed but then, when leading the third, she could not stop a winning surge by Tunnicliffe on the last leg.

At least for the first hours of the blackout of 2003, cars stopped for pedestrians without the urging of traffic lights -- though in many places the gridlock was too severe to allow anyone to reach a very threatening speed.

Villa started spiritedly, Agbonlahor threatening with speed through the middle.

They would rather see technologies that pump carbon into the atmosphere, threatening to speed global climate change, go extinct than evolve.

While the libido-enhancing effects of guarana may have more to do with fiction than fact, it is no small wonder that products from the Amazon, a region that has long gripped popular imagination as the world's largest rain forest, are being viewed as a way for the region to develop without harming the environment at a time when other forces are threatening to speed its depletion.

The floating ice shelves of West Antarctica are fracturing increasingly and losing their grip on the rocky bay walls that slow their flow, threatening to speed up the flow of ice from land to sea, a new study finds.

In part because huge servers do not necessarily make great players — Roger Federer's serve threatens no speed barriers — and in part because serve speeds tend to fluctuate significantly depending on which system is used to record them.

Now the defection of Amazon and the threat of other big names to start advertising their independence from the Royal Mail threatens to speed up the group's financial decline.

Around them chickweed was spreading at an astounding speed, threatening to choke the smaller seedlings.

But here was the rookie Speed threatening to earn points should something happen higher up the pack in the race.