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Example sentences for: threaten

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Caesar drew Gaul’s northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Germanic tribes across the river — the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons — would always threaten the security of the frontier.
A force was gaining strength in the east to threaten their new bases.
Agitation episodes that threaten hemodynaimc stability are becoming more common in the ICU as a larger range of sick patients are identified are cared for.
The paper found that Murdoch had personally intervened to get the book stopped, because he feared that its anti-Chinese slant might threaten his TV interests in China.
Gore wants to make him talk about three losing issues: Reaganomics (which hurts Bradley among Democrats because he voted for Reagan's 1981 budget cuts), vouchers (Bradley's past support of pilot voucher programs offends powerful teachers' unions and Democratic voters who think vouchers threaten public schools), and ethanol (Bradley's past opposition to ethanol subsidies irks Iowans, who count on these subsidies to prop up farmers).