Sentence examples for through threatening from inspiring English sources

She speaks proudly of using the "big stick" that prosecutors have, but doesn't realize that this "big stick" is used to beat people into submission through threatening them with being caged and even killed.

The group's aim is to bring an end to what it characterizes as the partnership's relentless harassment of Web site owners who parody the Barney character, chiefly through threatening cease-and-desist letters from Lyons's law firm in New York, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty.

In addition, SAS demanded that Braathens reduce its fleet from 33 to 23 aircraft if the deal was to go through, threatening to terminate the purchase if the airline did not abide.

Each of these relate to stealing a taxpayer's identity information, personal information, and financial account information through various means including dumpster diving and pretending to be an IRS employee through threatening emails or telephone calls.

This is just the latest shake of the bigoted pepper mill that is Littlejohn's career, following a ridiculous amount of homophobic language, an article that defended police who threw a disabled protester out of his wheelchair and a piece that insinuated ethnic minority staff had ot their jobs through threatening to sue the Equality and Human Rights Commission.       .

Drives might quickly spread protective genes through threatened or soon-to-be-threatened species such as amphibians facing the expansion of chytrid fungus (Rosenblum et al., 2010 ).

Were we confronted with a record of actual prosecutions or harassment through threatened prosecutions, we might be faced with a different question.

The majority makes the suggestion that 'we might be faced with a different question' if there were 'a record of actual prosecutions or harassment through threatened prosecutions.' Ante, at 685.

But a key provision that slipped through threatens both the effectiveness of the MLR, and the integrity of public health departments.

Stunned fellow Democrats complained that Davis' declaration appeared to be a rerun of a 1997 surprise by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, who, through threatened or actual vetoes, delayed the overhaul of the managed care industry by almost two years.

Sugrue says that only through actions threatening the privileges of whites — boycotts, demonstrations, community control of schools — could blacks narrow the disparities.