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Example sentences for: threatens

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However, a recent humiliating experience now threatens that close bond.
Yesterday's California Supreme Court decision, declaring Indian casinos to be in violation of a constitutional prohibition against gaming, threatens to shut down the state's $1.36 billion gambling industry.
Such a life has very little to offer other women in the way of exemplary lessons, and we're right to feel a bit queasy over a first lady who promises (or threatens) to accomplish anything very substantive on the strength of who she's sleeping with.
This threatens to undermine all President Clinton's good work in sending the message that one should get it whenever and however one can.
She publishes the Pentagon Papers at great peril to the company and stares down Richard Nixon over Watergate when he threatens to revoke the company's lucrative broadcast licenses.