The soldier threatened force.
China said it would veto a resolution that threatened force.
Mr. Kostunica understood he had to be seen to threaten force, but could not use it.
Iran should not threaten force, he said, particularly against a smaller, friendly neighbor.
Only Smith raised the issue of "information on mass killing and rape" and threatened force "if UN forces are attacked".
The second facet that has marked India's external relations is deterrence, the dissuasion of others from using or threatening force.
A country needs both to act outside its boundaries and to threaten force in order to be an agent of interventionism.
In a TV address, he insisted that if France had not threatened force, "Assad would have continued to threaten the population".
He vetoed first an American resolution calling on both belligerents to withdraw and on other states to refrain from using or threatening force in the area, and then a Russian resolution which left out the second part of the exhortation.
If these voters' first exposure to politics is one in which they are viewed as an outside, threatening force then it risks alienating them in a way that will reverberate for years to come".
