Sentence examples for threatening the use of from inspiring English sources

The Syrian National Coalition also called for a binding UN resolution threatening the use of force if Syria did not hand over its chemical stockpiles.

He noted in particular France's proposal for two separate Security Council resolutions, with only the second threatening the use of force.

And to push it through, armed militia members surrounded the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs as well as the transitional Parliament, implicitly threatening the use of force.

Police officials said they had determined that Mr. Black had been arrested in 1997 in North Charleston, S.C., and accused of using the telephone to make a threat and threatening the use of an incendiary device.

As Taiwan begins a campaign to elect a new president, China's state council has issued an official white paper threatening the use of force if Taiwan is not prepared to enter negotiations about "reunification".

On the face of it, the case for threatening the use of military force against North Korea is even stronger than for Iraq: evidence of a weapons programme, evidence of broken treaties, evidence of hostile acts against South Korea, evidence that the regime is brutal against its own people.

China has threatened the use of force to achieve political reunification.

Instead, Eisenhower vaguely threatened the use of nuclear weapons and negotiated a truce.

It has threatened the use of nuclear weapons in 'pre-emptive' strikes (a threat echoed by Defence Minister Geoffrey Hoon).

In particular, he said that no country should threaten the use of force when it came to inspecting cargoes, since that was not authorized by the resolution.

The need for action is made more urgent by the prospect of "war with Iraq and the possibility Saddam Hussein might threaten the use of weapons of mass destruction in America," the panel said.