Sentence examples for were threatened that from inspiring English sources

Two witnesses told the court that they were threatened that, if they complained, they might end up "like Alise", a young Latvia woman who had gone missing and been found dead on the Sandringham estate.

"Yes, they were tortured by electricity, and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted," Mr. Islam, above, who has been Colonel Qaddafi's leading envoy, said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

I could understand, if we were down to our last barrels of oil and our very lifestyle were threatened, that we might risk believing the oil companies that they can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in northern Alaska, without damage.

According to the family member, Zhaleh's parents and siblings – who live in the western city of Paveh in Kermanshah province – were asked not to attend the funeral in Tehran and were threatened that Zhaleh's body would not be handed to them if they spoke to foreign media.

"We were threatened that we would be closed down," he said.

They were threatened that they might be put in jail and, knowing that homosexuals were executed in Iran, Millett also feared she might be killed when she overheard officials discuss her lesbianism.

If the FBI is threatened, that doesn't entirely dismay the libertarian crowd that seems to be overrepresented in the hacker community.

"We don't like to affect businesses," he says, "but if they go out there when corals are threatened, that could lead to problems".

Or rather, what to do about the rodents that are threatening that unique environment.

On Tuesday, we told you about land grabs by timber companies in Liberia that are threatening that country's tropical rain forest.

Implicitly, Germany is threatening that countries which do not do as they should will be forced out of the euro zone and left to fend for themselves.