Sentence examples for threatening states from inspiring English sources

Shortly after the embassy bombings, the United States began threatening states and financial institutions with sanctions if they failed to cut off assistance to those who did business with Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

"The Trump Administration is threatening states' rights, including the rights of one in five Americans who live in a state where marijuana is legal," Wyden said.

But federal prosecutors didn't like this direction and they began threatening states which had spent thousands of staff and advocate hours drafting, debating, and passing access laws.

Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Justice Breyer and Justice Kagan, concluded in Part IV that the Medicaid expansion violates the Constitution by threatening States with the loss of their existing Medicaid funding if they decline to comply with the expansion.

On the day the abortion was scheduled, a worker wrote in the case record, "EXTREMELY HOSTILE, BELLIGERENT AND THREATENING — states no one understands her — no longer wants abortion".

Unfortunately, these goals were overshadowed by an arrogant, go-it-alone stance and an aggressive claim to the right to use pre-emptive action against threatening states.

"Ntaganda's prosecution for threatening state security and 'divisionism' was based solely on his speeches criticizing government policies," the statement said.

Though charged with threatening state security, he has never been tried and has become something of an embarrassment to the authorities.

In November, Mr. Mansoor and four others were convicted of threatening state security and insulting the Emirates' leaders and sentenced to three years in prison.

Last November, after a six-month trial, five Emiratis were sentenced to three-year prison terms for insulting the U.A.E.'s rulers and threatening state security.

In January Nyamwasa was sentenced in absentia by a military court to 24 years' imprisonment on charges of desertion and threatening state security.