Sentence examples for while being threatened from inspiring English sources

It was designed as a kind of prime-time torture session, in which contestants had to keep their heart rates down while being threatened with alligator attack or shooting flames.

In a response to an earlier inspectors' report last year, the zoo complained that it was in a catch-22 situation, as it was unable to recruit the experienced managers required to improve while being threatened with closure.

The state of Florida made this quite obvious while acquitting George Zimmerman, but sentencing Florida woman Marissa Alexander to 20 years in prison last year for firing a warning shot into the wall while being threatened by her abusive husband.

In one case, for example, a federal court held that imprisonment for five days under bad conditions while being threatened with bodily harm, interrogated and held at gunpoint amounted to torture.

The game provides the opportunity to govern a country by exploring how contrasting dimensions of sustainability (economy, environment and social conditions), can be harmonized regionally, while continuously being threatened by global trade fluctuations.

North Korea's basic quandary "is that it would like to pursue economic reform or openness while not being threatened politically," said Koh Il Dong, an economic researcher at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul.

Another reporter, Anita M. Busch of The Los Angeles Times, complained of being threatened while reporting on the actor Steven Seagal.

Rising temperatures have hit feeding grounds and migration, the Sunday Post reported, while smolts were also being threatened by a sea lice infection.

For a while New Yorkers were threatened by bedbugs.

While US Airways is threatened by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, private pilots are having problems, too.

Henry has given up school to become his drug-dependent mother's carer while Mia is threatened with expulsion for some coolly savage behaviour in the dormitory.