"People are threatening me, I mean life-threatening threats," he said on Thursday.
We've received calls in the middle of the night, threatening our lives, death threats".
This neat Venn diagram sums up the sweet spot for humor: This jibes nicely with the cliché that tragedy plus time equals comedy, because the distance of time makes threats less threatening.
Neal Horsley, an abortion opponent who maintains a Web site called Christian Gallery, said Mr. Waagner had recently showed up at his home in Carrollton, Ga., and claimed responsibility for the anthrax threats while threatening to kill 42 workers in abortion clinics.
The boys were accused of making verbal threats and threatening the girls' reputations, according to one of the sources.
Of immigrants threatening to bring both threats across a porous border that can't be protected by a president who can't even protect his own house.
That evening, Beijing police received two bomb threats, one threatening to blow up an airport out of anger over a land dispute and the other to bomb a video game arcade because the man had been spending too much money there.
"Threatening not to close, threatening legal action, maybe the threat of an attorney general's action, all can bring a developer to negotiate," Mr. Graubard said.
Based on the high prevalence of negative emotions and threatening dream content, the threat simulation theory suggests that the evolutionary function of dreaming lies in the simulation of ancestral threats and that the rehearsal of threatening events and avoidance skills in dreams has an adaptive value by enhancing the individual's chances of survival (see Revonsuo 2000; Valli 2008).
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.
Clearly, some odontophobic patients have a perception of the dental environment as threatening beyond just the threat of physically painful treatment.
