Sentence examples for threats to try from inspiring English sources

Especially in the south, the Taliban made good on their threats to try to disrupt the vote.

"When they can't control the election of the mayor directly, the clans use threats to try to gain back influence," he said.

Swiss politicians have vacillated between apologies and threats to try to secure the release of two Swiss executives held by Libya in retaliation.

The president uses these threats to try to bend members of Congress to his will and mete out revenge against those who dare challenge him.

They are fighting a lonely battle against a rich, corrupt and entrenched political class, braving occasional death threats to try to clean up one of the world's filthiest polities.

Some protesters have returned to their farms for the rice planting season, while others have been frightened away by the government's threats to try again to use the military forces to end the protests.

According to Engels, US customs "insisted that the crew was a possible threat to try and jump ship due to the Hanjin situation".

The Pakistanis have not been shy about exploiting the terrorist threat to try to win financial support, a senior official at the I.M.F. said.

The British never found anyone to inform on John and his men, but their threat to try Americans in London alarmed American patriots.

Alex Salmond has been accused of making a "deeply sinister" threat to try to force out the Conservatives and install a Labour government in a post-election hung parliament using procedures that could involve no negotiations and no deal with Ed Miliband.

"We should not be so cynical, so godlike as to turn our back on him and say, 'You are beyond hope.' " But prosecutors called Mr. Muhammad uniquely coldblooded and vicious, arguing that he would be a threat to try an escape and to attack guards and fellow inmates.