Sentence examples similar to veiled threat underneath from inspiring English sources

He had once appeared to make a veiled threat against her young daughter.

The veiled threat of a return to conscription distracts from this needed discussion.

Another leader, Kokaew Pikulthong, issued what appeared to be a veiled threat to the government.

The president last month wielded those potential tapes as a very thinly veiled threat against Comey.

The killings came a day after Mr. d'Aubuisson issued a thinly veiled threat against rebel sympathizers.

Dingane interpreted this thinly veiled threat as evidence of a Voortrekker plot against him.

He appeared to make a veiled threat on Twitter on Tuesday to run as an independent.

"It's a very thinly veiled threat against the prosecutors," she said.

At a closed-door meeting on Thursday, he made a veiled threat to leave the alliance.

It also offered a thinly veiled threat of more measures to come.

Instead, Chaffetz issued a veiled threat to cut off funding for Shaub's agency.