Sentence examples for under menaces from inspiring English sources

He offered, under menaces, to comply when he was well again.

The prisoners are told, under menaces, that they must always deny having been beaten.

The green idyll of the village of Snape and its environs is under threat, menaced by the prospect of a giant car park to serve the increasing number of visitors to the area.

I never saw a suffragette, under menace of violence, otherwise than cool and collected".

Renaud Camus recently told Vox that white people in France are living "under menace" — victims of an unchecked foreign assault "as much by black Africa as it is by Northern Islamic Africans".

Mr Hipkin said: "Darrell Simester was a man of timid disposition who for 13 years was forced to work against his will and under menace.

He highlights the performance of Keith Barron as Captain Striker as being "a master class of under-stated menace" and "pitch perfect", juxtaposing this with the over-the-top pantomime villainy of Lynda Baron as Captain Wrack, with the two captains balancing each other out perfectly.

They've usually been assigned a walk-on presence as the surly brats that divorcing parents fight over or as bland symbols of innocence under threat from some external menace – Skins, also written by Jack Thorne, being a notable exception.

Trolls in modern tales for children often live under bridges, menacing travelers and exacting tasks or tolls.

It's sixty-four degrees and rainy in London; passenger boats on the Thames await tourists under a menacing sky.

Organizations like mine, Transparency Maldives, which works to eliminate corruption and promote open governance, operate under the menace of threatened dissolution by the state.