Sentence examples for threatens like from inspiring English sources

Underdressed tourists are reported to have been attacked outside mosques.The moral and sartorial laxity of tourists threatens, like everything else in Zanzibar, to become a political issue.

But Germany's leaders show no sign of being prepared to foot the bill for the costs of a currency union that has benefited German capital above all but now threatens, like the gold standard in the early 20th century, to bring Europe's economy to its knees.

There are other, larger matters threatening like thunderclouds around the Yankees these days.

The concept of solidarity goes out the window when jobs are threatened like this".

He was in drag, but the effect wasn't campy: he looked mutilated but threatening, like a zombie.

"There have been money problems, but we've never been threatened like now," said Ms. Ferguson, whose school, Columbus Elementary, was decorated with a poster by students congratulating her on being invited to the State of the Union address.

Deficits have exploded, entitlements are out of control and our personal liberties are threatened like never before.

But given the unresolved tensions over Ukraine, the overall trajectory of current Russian foreign policy and the pressures coming from those in Nato who feel most threatened, like the Poles, this pattern of behaviour risks becoming the new norm.

Some allergies are a minor nuisance, like seasonal allergies; others are life threatening, like peanut reactions.

I felt pointedly threatened, like they'd recognized me and I'd been marked.

"It would be a scandal if European leaders did not take the cries of simple citizens into account and if these very citizens of Europe were threatened like expendable products," they wrote.