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    1. Although he was little more than half the size of Rafa, Sammy's main 'enforcer', he found it hilarious and exhilarating to threaten a thug twice his size just to see the reaction


    2. sitting there so desperately concerned … the tears threaten again


    3. It was much as we thought – he’d gleaned some information about Bazilda and Lorentze Chitter and used it to threaten them into working with him


    4. responsive to its own particular stimulus, and each vulnerable to any harmful influence that would threaten it elsewhere in the body


    5. ’ I said as tears threaten to overcome me


    6. I take refuge in practical comment as my emotions threaten to overwhelm me


    7. The most difficult part of this process is that the old pain and fear you felt years ago can suddenly rise to the surface and threaten to overwhelm you again


    8. They continued to threaten us but didn't act


    9. be tempted by something that would later threaten you


    10. I’m told that she didn’t raise her voice or threaten anyone

    11. Lack of sleep and a surfeit of caffeine threaten a short circuit


    12. He didn’t point fingers at people or threaten them


    13. threaten with the Apocalypse? The first one, who


    14. when warfare doesn’t threaten us


    15. She’d overheard Praegon threaten Dora with such a


    16. He didn’t threaten their security with drink or


    17. He smiled as he thought about how he’d had to plead and even subtly threaten the relevant officials


    18. He literally had to threaten and bribe his way around for this to be done; but it was well worth it


    19. ‘The Elif lives in many realms at once, swapping at will should danger threaten


    20. “You threaten my Temple? Are your crimes not enough as it is? Do you have any idea what will become of you if anyone discovers what you are up to?”

    21. “You dare threaten me, a god, with your measly weapons?” Mars glowered


    22. “Sometimes, they threaten to throw stones


    23. The Jew moved closer to Jack and seemed to threaten now


    24. The only thing that slows him down is to threaten to not allow him to be in the office or around me


    25. “Those awful rogues Ironbristles and Ramrod used to threaten that Dave’r would run us through with his knife if we weren’t fit for sea


    26. Though Hunters have become legendary in Nuria—and feared by wizards—the organization never developed enough clout to threaten the status quo


    27. He will not threaten you, and he will pay in money if has money to pay


    28. Why were they so frightened of her? She had done nothing to threaten them


    29. As many as 2 out of 3 of these marriages do not last because they have challenges that threaten the stability and continuity of the family


    30. The Cold War brought a new set of justifications to invade, overthrow, or threaten Latin American nations

    31. There is a small segment within the pro-life movement that is willing to use or threaten violence, that sees deaths of abortion clinic doctors, nurses, clinic staff, and even receptionists as a necessary sacrifice to stop abortion


    32. Low water levels have forced conservation measures and threaten some species of wildlife


    33. But then why would Piers say he had, if he hadn’t? “Did Troy threaten you Piers?”


    34. MacArthur may choose to simply threaten nuclear war to break the stalemate


    35. �Well, Jonathan, it may be hard to prove this in a court room, but sir, if this goes to trial, the blackmail material on your brother would have to go public, and what would that do to him personally You silenced Laura because she continued to threaten you with it, but if you fight this in court, it goes public any way,� Steve related as he looked straight at Jonathan


    36. You know, the moment they catch wind of what you’re doing, the Americans will threaten again to withheld aid and impose restrictions on trade, and you won’t be able to keep a vote


    37. Gwyneth supported her husband, for she knew he faced serious issues that could threaten the very stability that they all enjoyed


    38. “You threaten Billy Ray Boyle in a public park


    39. But what do I hear? Prattle about the nature of trees? It could at least have been an argument! The married couple, fleeing not only their enemies but the troubles that threaten to destroy their marriage, the sexy slave girl, tempting the man to infidelity


    40. “It is an offence to attempt to harm yourself, or to threaten to harm yourself,” he told Blaine

    41. Oh, to be back in Tinby where everything was good and nothing could threaten the quiet peace inside


    42. these rules threaten the economic viability of America's manufacturing base and hundreds of thousands


    43. Was this what gave Othman and his supporters the false assurance that they could safely uproot the Medinese from their places of power? And were the familial relatives so engaged by 661 that they couldn’t threaten enough force to have countered the usurpation engineered by Muawiyah?


    44. threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances


    45. My cousin mentioned that Norman Wylie would threaten to claw back gifts such as sports cars if he didn’t meet his expectations


    46. Heavy reddish-brown clouds with blackness behind threaten to bring the kind of violent rain that will tear the topsoil out of my hillside garden


    47. The Kenya Wildlife Organisation states that elephants will most of the time only threaten or kill humans to defend their territory


    48. Henry captured one of their ambassadors in the capital of the Conchuco, and he had the temerity to threaten us with destruction if we did not surrender


    49. They would drop as many names as they could, and when that did not work, they would outright threaten or bribe


    50. “Pardon me, but I don’t appreciate you coming here to threaten me,” Sierra said, hands on her hips












































    1. "Let's just pretend we've had the conversation already, eh? I've threatened to reveal your kiddy fiddler porn addiction, you've begged me not to, blah, blah, fuckin' blah, init?"


    2. We will not be threatened by financial


    3. Derek Reilly, hard man local dad who had threatened to batter me


    4. He has threatened to destroy my property and has made vicious and very, very real threats against both my person and against my son


    5. when they were threatened with death, they trusted in Him when were


    6. "You say you've been threatened by a criminal called 'Sammy the Shark, isn't that it?"


    7. And what about Herbert the Hyena? Has he threatened to eat your children? Or Rudolf the Rhino? He wants his money back too does he?"


    8. Now that I was outside of the cell he seemed palpably nervous, as though my movement across the threshold somehow threatened his safety


    9. If he even made a joke about going up in the shuttlecraft to see the ship she threatened to leave with the children


    10. Our kisses and our caresses in the dark night hours somehow brought comfort and assuaged the loneliness that otherwise threatened to engulf us

    11. addicted to negativity) is being threatened


    12. "I've been trying to think of a way to sneak down into the balcony for the music," Desa said, "Alan's acquainted enough with me that he won't feel threatened down there


    13. "Has he been thru some kind of trauma?" Kolot asked after hearing that he could feel threatened


    14. What right did I have to wield this big stick? Why me? Why should somewhere so beautiful and so remote be threatened by such contortions? My elation had evaporated


    15. Her father had often threatened her with punishments when she was naughty, but he had never actually carried them out


    16. I suppose it could have threatened the mission if I had got romantically involved


    17. Alexis was right, it was hard not to crunch bits of pottery or sea shells underfoot, and I was forced to step over a gang of red ants, dragging off a caterpillar and waving nasty-looking pincers at anything that threatened their mission


    18. Thom was threatened with arrest once and he heard that Alan had been arrested


    19. elements in a society threatened by extreme views and an


    20. Her father had often threatened her with

    21. held a gun to his head and threatened to kill himself


    22. Not if you threatened to tell Maggie


    23. She slapped at him playfully from time to time when his activities threatened to interfere with her dinner


    24. As realisation of the other woman’s intention percolated into Chrissie’s brain, nausea threatened


    25. Enjteen threatened to reveal secrets and their mothers were still good friends


    26. lungs threatened to explode he finally stopped and,


    27. Her dinner threatened to come up; she stood by the sink, eyes staring out into the blackness beyond and took a deep breath, fighting down the nausea


    28. threatened my life,’ he countered defensively


    29. A wave of laughter threatened to burst out of Andy; he contained it


    30. Slipping through the muddy torrents coursing from the Main Street down the Lakeside Road, we reached the shelter of the porch and I went with father around to shutter the store windows, just in case the winds shifted suddenly and threatened from the north

    31. But the Arcturus Corporation threatened to kill


    32. resent this ill-disciplined Italian whose temper threatened


    33. He screamed and threatened, but Jorma didn’t care, it might be evidence, it had a serial number etched into the glass so something of importance must have been in it


    34. written up for insubordination, and threatened repeatedly that if her course of


    35. I suppose the government at the time was a little threatened by the Napies because Napies were living day-by-day, and not in meditation or in sleep mode


    36. things to them, that John only thought possible if one was threatened with death


    37. If a child is bribed, coerced, tricked, threatened, or forced into any


    38. spirit is very threatened by it


    39. While this is a military expedition, they are not heavily armed, but they understand how small a nudge they need to give an asteroid to make it impact on whichever of us they feel threatened by


    40. I threatened – and the glint in her eye

    41. He sprang to his feet, drew and opened a sailor's clasp-knife, and threatened the doctor


    42. there were distractions that threatened to keep the Apostles from


    43. He would have his vengeance on the being that threatened to extinguish his life, and prove that he was not one to be so easily defeated


    44. The remains of the yaag threatened to bring back a fit of the sillies


    45. runner saw him coming, he was threatened and began to run


    46. Within the halo of curls, Katrina could see the tips of her pointed ears and forced herself to keep her eyes on the child even as the girl's white orbs threatened to burrow into her soul


    47. “Sleep lightly, Antechron,” the swineherd threatened, then shoved his way through the


    48. exemption and threatened to have them excommunicated


    49. threatened by the Apocalypse and all kinds of


    50. Imorbis was forced to step back as the sludge threatened to pool at his feet













































    1. Well? Well what? What was Henry doing here again? He looked down at his hand and saw the sales report clutched in a shaking, life threatening grip


    2. Silence had both swords in her hands, and was threatening him with small swipes through the air


    3. His throat tightened, threatening to cut off the air to his lungs


    4. I'm hard to intimidate unless it's two goons in my house with sledgehammers and baseball bats threatening to break my children's’ bones


    5. He looked more afraid than he did when the goons were threatening to kill us


    6. This self-willed attitude can result in brethren viewing the ideas of others as threatening, personal


    7. ’ She said, turning her full attention on her companion, satisfied that there was nothing obviously threatening


    8. ‘That’s easy!’ Kara said, grinning and suppressing the tears threatening


    9. Her eyes busily scanned the people in the vicinity, on the lookout for anything that might be threatening while Angie referred to the little map Iain had drawn for them


    10. dreadfully threatening tone with my teeth

    11. David had opportunity to put to death that which was threatening and intimidating


    12. As soon as she recognised me as someone she could talk to, she let loose in Greek with a tirade of complaints and hand signals, touching my forearm, threatening her cargo and even taking strides away only to return with cries of admonishment


    13. Shangri-las are being ruined all over the world but there must have been something much more serious threatening this haven and whatever it was, its hand was on his shoulder when he died


    14. He'd been in the lab most of the last two weeks and the last few days Ava had been threatening to move out on him if he didn't start paying more attention to her


    15. His chat up lines developed from monosyllabic grunting into the crudely embarrassing hope of youth before finally passing into the hopelessly threatening swagger of the seventeen year old


    16. Her face grew pale, contrasting with the dark and threatening sea


    17. Sam comes to greet me as I open the door but she’s obviously finding it an effort … dear Sam, what would I do without you? I quickly change my clothes and take her out into the garden … she sniffs around quite happily … maybe it is just stiffness … I shiver … although the rain has stopped there are still dark clouds which look threatening


    18. Remember that fear is your body‘s natural response to what you believe is a threatening situation


    19. wretched and desperately alone in this harsh and threatening world


    20. I can feel the tears threatening to fall

    21. hopelessly threatening swagger of the seventeen year old


    22. Billy and Bex enjoy the smallness of domesticity, breaking the back of a confusing, sometimes threatening world by carving life up into manageable chunks


    23. tree roots and sharp jagged rocks, threatening to grab his feet from underneath him


    24. A merciless sun beat down through a cloudless sky, scorching the earth and threatening to turn it into powder


    25. Cocky but not threatening


    26. Suddenly the path became an uncertain, narrow causeway edged by threatening tussocks of grass, the sludgy pools between them sucking mouths edged with rotting ferny teeth, just waiting for her to fall into them, to be lost for eternity in their peaty brown depths


    27. The sound brought both Angie and Kev to their senses and, her smile threatening to crack her face in two, Angie had pulled him into the house and shut the door


    28. This time it was low and threatening, with some emotion


    29. Carol dams the flood of words threatening to overflow her defensive walls


    30. This AOG plane (Aircraft on Ground) was threatening corporate survival

    31. The collection boys were writing nasty letters threatening me that a collection agency was after us if we don't pay the bills


    32. Her heart beat harder, faster, threatening to burst open her chest


    33. There was something distinctly threatening about


    34. “Your fault too, huh? So, why is it okay for you to kiss me in your dreams, but not when you’re awake?” His fangs lengthened, which only occurred when he was threatened or the one doing the threatening


    35. threatening to pop out of his sockets and he was coughing with


    36. Penelope slowly turned to face the one threatening her, knowing full well who she would find at the other end of the sword


    37. To dream that you fall through ice suggests that your emotions are threatening to come crashing through


    38. If the temperature is high, then it indicates that feelings of anger or hatred or threatening to come to your consciousness


    39. That was said to be achieved using brute force, ruining rivals' campaign tours and even threatening people into voting for whomever it was that was giving her the money


    40. Without this support, s/he may then be more easily overwhelmed in difficult or threatening situations

    41. As it happened, there was nothing of any threatening nature in the Olnish system


    42. It took everything to suppress the smirk threatening to spread across his face


    43. Its breath hung, sweet but threatening, in the air


    44. The Leader somehow sensed the officer was thinking about him, as out of the blue, the Leader fixed him with a slightly manic, slightly threatening grin


    45. ’ The pause between the sentences was slightly threatening


    46. Edna White, her heart threatening to stop beating, dropped to her hands and knees quietly, quickly


    47. This did not stay with him for long because his quivering cock was threatening to explode in his pants


    48. His eyes were wide, the panic threatening to take over


    49. It meant he was safe from those who were threatening his very life


    50. Alex took a threatening step forward














































    1. One should not under estimate the importance of finding ways to diffuse stress before it threatens your health and your ability to function


    2. Harry Cozen is in command and this is his greatest gambit, but alien propaganda threatens to reveal the war's greatest secret on the very day the broadest and bloodiest battle of the conflict unfolds


    3. ‘Simon! Behave yourself!’ I splutter, suppressing the giggle which threatens to burst out


    4. True prophetic authority threatens her


    5. For their ideology, sometimes their very masculinity, is tied up in the image of America as strong and unbeatable, and to them Carter threatens that


    6. If he threatens you with death, remember that I will be less merciful


    7. We have a common enemy tonight, one that threatens our very existence


    8. that it threatens our very existence and that it can not be solved by tax increases


    9. The Greatest Hoax – How the global warming conspiracy threatens our future”


    10. It threatens such terrible things

    11. A smirk threatens his mouth


    12. It has intervened in the gay rights issue, pointing toward consecration of gay marriage that threatens the viability of the family


    13. In those areas, considered in the following chapter, some scientists are claiming an omniscience that threatens democratic society


    14. That is occurring with increasing frequency today, which threatens an essential element of free society


    15. Concern about pollution of the earth abounds, but the pollution that threatens this nation today lies not in stagnant rivers or dirty air


    16. It is the rot of self-hatred that now Pope Benedict XVI identifies at the core of the West that threatens its survival


    17. Most Americans do know, says David Gelernter, that a “catastrophic deterioration” in morals and values has occurred that threatens to destroy their children’s legacy of freedom, and to condemn them to misery


    18. When that abusive activity threatens the Christians directly, it is a different story, as punishment of some sort will occur


    19. thorough explanation would require me to discuss in depth the pain of loss that threatens most


    20. Most textbooks, produced by a few giant commercial publishers, are exposing generations of children to cultural and history stagnation that threatens the very basis of American free

    21. or believes or threatens – none of it will make what happened to me


    22. or threatens or does or says, because nothing anyone can accuse me


    23. value than the life of a stray who threatens just this


    24. “Second, we must wage peace with the same absolute commitment that we would use to wage war! Let us bring prosperity to the poor with generosity and with training and education and help and camaraderie! Let us restore the lands and wilderness areas that have been despoiled by past wars and disasters! Let us build schools and libraries and parks and gardens for the enjoyment and betterment of all! Let no effort or expense be shirked in these endeavors, for the Nexus threatens our entire world!


    25. Ralph glances at the knife, even more distant than it was before and curses his own slowness as bright stars and blackness dance before his vision, a counterpoint to the pain which threatens to overcome him


    26. At the same time, his head begins to throb, a blinding dullness that threatens his intention


    27. If I had my way, I would eliminate the person who threatens her


    28. The cult of political correctness (pc) threatens free speech


    29. But we dare not rest while this other cancer threatens our way of life


    30. The others that have brought destruction to this land and who I suspect are behind the war that threatens our nation, are the followers of Queen Soredamor, the second child entombed

    31. Avery gets to the heart of the matter, “I ask nothing of you but your word that our situation in your country will not change, no matter what the US promises or threatens today


    32. I don’t know why it became that way but every time I annoy him, and I annoy him a lot, he threatens to shoot me


    33. “If he threatens you …”


    34. pressure on our cities, threatens our rural way of life and breaks up family units


    35. “That shared, be wise and not deceived by what will seem what it is not: Love doth not hide behind half-truths nor levy pressure to persuade; it can’t be used to further greed nor foster acts of selfishness; Love takes no pride in pedigree nor threatens the environment; it neither motivates by fear nor rests where sleeps complacency, but manifests scenarios designed to challenge staid ideals


    36. threatens me by a tingling in my scalp


    37. Threatens to hurt him or herself because of me


    38. But no one- no one- threatens Derek and Dana


    39. The remembered fear threatens to overwhelm me, and I breathe deeply, trying to force it out


    40. Stalking laws in most states pertain to a relatively new crime involving a clear pattern of conduct in which the offender follows, harasses, or threatens another person, putting that person in fear for his or her safety

    41. Soon they are discovered by the Count and he threatens to kill her lover


    42. But now, my life threatens to bring about the worst of fates on that score for me


    43. “With that Tom, it could have been anybody here, because he verbally abuses and threatens all of us


    44. When a strong and moving religion threatens to dominate him, he invariably tries to rationalize, traditionalize, and institutionalize it, thereby hoping to gain control of it


    45. � threatens Stef his face flushing with anger


    46. ‘I’ll send you to your room without food,’ he threatens


    47. Of course I would marry him if he threatens to cut Lucas to the quick


    48. It threatens to bleed on my sanity,


    49. threatens other sea creatures with high levels of pollution


    50. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?














































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