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Example sentences for: threatened

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President Clinton authorized pilots to attack air defense sites unrelated to those that have threatened their planes.
The acting is not always an embarrassment; in Falling Down , the one Schumacher film that threatened to be decent, Michael Douglas delivered one of the creepiest slow burns of the decade.
But it grew more evenhanded Monday when it said that HarperCollins was now "fighting a rearguard action to stop a threatened revolt by some of its authors."
When the ANC renounced its Marxist intentions to redistribute wealth, it no longer threatened white privilege.
Pro-Indonesia militias have killed three demonstrators and have threatened civilians, reporters, and U.N. officials.