The electric company was threatening to shut his power off.
The water has now begun surrounding the city's northernmost subway stops, threatening to shut them down.
"The Rules Committee was threatening to shut us down," he said in an interview.
The utility requested an immediate payment of $934.37, threatening to shut off her gas service.
SHANGHAI — Even before Google began threatening to shut down its search service in China, it was not fitting in.
Business review site Angie's List joined local boycotts by threatening to shut down an expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters.
Currently, it is North Korea, not South Korea, that is threatening to shut down the Kaesong complex.
In 2011, he made the evening news by threatening to shut down the federal government unless it defunded Planned Parenthood.
The furor over the Davis incident was quickly escalating, threatening to shut down most C.I.A. operations in the country and derail the intelligence-gathering operation in Abbottabad.
But he knows that describing it as such, and threatening to shut down the U.S. government, will play to the base and further his own ambitions.
Instead, this group is threatening to shut down the government and undermine America's vital credit rating if it doesn't get its way.
