His words slowly relaxed her threatening attitude.
He make an admission that he have used threatening behavior.
The terrorists are threatening to blow up the hijacked airliner.
He refused to be awed by the threatening letters.
He advanced on me in a threatening manner.
Threatening to remove the carrot (or rather, the flow of chocolate COINS) is more credible than threatening to wield the stick.
He admits though that he quickly settled into the skin of the brooding, threatening Malfoy.
The man suddenly dropped his threatening tone and became all sweetness and light.
To strip of power, potency, or strength;make harmless or less threatening.
It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster.
Unsolicited advice from loved ones can be especially threatening, because of our strong desire to please those persons.
An uncontrollable wave of wildfires sweeping across European Russia is adding to farmers' woes, threatening their land with destruction.
Some now ask whether China is vaulting up the technology ladder or even threatening American national security.
And symbolic caps on a few top executives, as the White House is threatening, are too feeble a response.
Early treatment of NEC is essential to stop the potentially life-threatening leakage of bacteria into the abdomen.
To the absolute governments, with their following of parsons, professors, country squires and officials, it served as a welcome scarecrow against the threatening bourgeoisie.
The problem is known as droop, and it’s not only puzzling the brightest minds in the field, it’s also threatening the future of the electric lighting industry.
It helps that I'm cute. With a small frame, light hazel eyes, and short blond hair that curls under my chin, I don't appear threatening.
First they thought his role was limited to funding militancy But as information came in from stations around the world, a more threatening profile came together.
While such an announcement may not be an everyday occurrence, most of us are familiar with the idea that peanuts can trigger a life-threatening allergic reaction.
And in some patients we test the defibrillator by causing the heart to go into a life-threatening rhythm, to make sure the defibrillator can recognize it and shock them out of it.
While urbanites now enjoy the luxury and convenience of private cars, the sheer number of additional cars, over 2 million in five years, is threatening to paralyze the capital city.
Even Brief episodes can produce severe Brain dysfunction. Fasting hypoglycemia can be life-threatening; it occurs most often in patients with diabetes mellitus who mistime insulin therapy or miss meals.
With the specter of Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia threatening an aging American society, researchers are urgently looking for ways to determine who is going to develop such illnesses.
Less fun is fighting the new enemy: development and urban sprawl, which is threatening to pave over historic sites, especially in Virginia where many of the big battles took place.
Apart from threatening to plunge the simultaneous translators into meltdown, such language feeds the image overseas of Mr Bush as a hopelessly inarticulate, trigger-happy cowboy, one that Tony Blair was at pains to say this week he regards as a parody.
