Sentence examples similar to threatening visit from inspiring English sources

Did Wittgenstein leave the room after having words with Russell, or when Popper made the crack about not threatening visiting lecturers with pokers?

'I replied: "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers".

Was Popper's reply:"Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers"?

Later in the meeting - but only after Wittgenstein has left - he hears Popper state his poker principle: that one should not threaten visiting lecturers with pokers.

The move came after The Independent alerted the FCO to a new law that threatens visiting motorists with jail if they do not carry the permit in addition to their national licence.

The squabble took place in 1946 in a Cambridge tutorial room, where Wittgenstein either did or did not threaten Popper with a poker and Popper either did or did not, when asked by Wittgenstein to give an instance of a moral rule, say, "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers".

Up against these versions stands Karl Popper's testimony, a detailed narrative in which he sees how Wittgenstein uses the poker for emphasis, how he demands a statement of a moral principle, and how he, Popper, responds, 'Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers.' He sees Wittgenstein throw down the poker and storm out, slamming the door.

According to Popper - in a hotly disputed account - he demanded an example of a moral principle, to which Popper replied, "Thou should not threaten visiting lecturers with pokers".

It was typhoon season, and one was hovering off the coast, threatening to visit.

Others are threatening to visit Baghdad and meet with Mr. Hussein, as George Galloway, another member of Parliament, did last month.

Neil Blaney, one of the four ministers ousted by Lynch for complicity in smuggling guns to the north, had been threatening a visit.