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Example sentences for: threatens

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Did you see the Larry King column in USA Today ? He says that Clinton told him he owns the original Harry Truman letter to the music critic, the one where he threatens to punch out the guy for criticizing his daughter's piano recital.
She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans.
Brown also has a Clintonian streak that threatens to escalate pandering into a character issue.
Global warming over the next few decades threatens to raise water levels around the world, and the Netherlands — “nether” means “low-lying” or “below” — will have to work hard at solving the problem for its future inhabitants.
The Times favors censure over impeachment because it says the latter in Clinton's case assaults the Constitution in that it threatens what it calls "the jewel in the crown of American democracy," an orderly succession of presidential power.