You know, you threatened to kill Kyle.

So if you threaten to use it, people are going to comply with it.

As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.

Haiti's main aid donors threatened to cut off aid.

So for example, voices which threatened to attack my home

Unfortunately, violent conflicts emerged, threatening the lives of thousands of innocent people, as well as security, in many parts of the world, in particular in Europe and Africa.

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A religion which sets itself up to menace government and order.

Mr. Paltiel has received death threats by neo Nazi groups in the past.

Indonesia threatened to withdraw billions of so called potential investments in the Philippines.

(c) Hamas has also threatened to carry out more terrorist acts of this kind.

In recent months, the most powerful clan, led by Deputy Head of Kremlin Administration Igor Sechin, whose company, Rosneft, received the biggest chunk of Yukos in 2004, has threatened to engulf the others.

Countries such as the Sudan had implemented structural adjustment programmes with high social costs which threatened their stability.

In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real estate boom. As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.

The convoys even threatened Bamako, the capital, composed mostly of black Africans.

In the 1950s, the United States threatened to use nuclear weapons against the PRC if it attacked the island.

In the rich world, diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exist, hardly.

Lashkar e Taiba (LET), who rose to greater prominence after the Mumbai attack, immediately threatened that there would be more attacks.

Such fears were bolstered by opposition from the Church in Europe to American independence, threatening a revival of Pope Day.

tub, and a full frog pond by, we could turn that threatened last and universal one into another flood.

So if you threaten to use it, people are going to comply with it, but it's also going to be something that doesn't leave any lasting effects.

Farming organizations threaten to withhold support for the Treaty unless the government threatens to veto Mandelson s proposals.

They have involved huge financial risks for eurozone members. They have fueled tensions among member states.

Nationalism became lethal when the economy crashed, and social unrest threatened to upset the political order.

Consider what happens when banks in Texas, Florida, or California make bad lending decisions that threaten their survival.

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit.

But if Chinese made products threaten their health and safety, there are sure to be opportunistic lawmakers ready to fan the flames.

North Korea, no surprise, wailed and blustered against the war games, even threatening a physical response.

China complained loudly, refused to allow Liu to collect the prize, and even threatened Norway with financial repercussions.

But all of this can change rapidly when a crisis looms, especially if it threatens the integrity of the European project.

When the Council expressed reluctance to dismiss the author, the Department threatened to withdraw the Council apos s funding unless Mr. Toonen was given immediate notice.

In Poland last autumn, younger voters helped to replace a government whose incipient authoritarianism and xenophobic attitudes threatened to isolate their country.

In August 1982, Mexico threatened to default, and was quickly followed by other large borrowers, notably Argentina and Brazil.

This is based on the fact that during the armed conflict, the justice of the peace of Jocoro remained in office, and was not subjected to attacks which made him fear for his life.

But the situation that developed after 1982 threatened to erode the very delicate balance that had been achieved in the Convention.

After the Varna City Court refused to allow the extradition, ruling that the charges were politically motivated, the Bulgarian authorities threatened to deport him.

The US has threatened to veto the resolution in the Security Council, and the US Congress has threatened to suspend American aid to the Palestinian Authority.

Iran has threatened to cut oil exports if the United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions against it for violating its nuclear pledges.

However, on 5 July, the Nigerian government dropped the ban after FIFA threatened to impose harsher international sanctions as a result of the government interference.

This crime threatened Lebanon's security and stability and targeted a figure who had played a major role in its reconstruction and renaissance after years of war.

China then simply threatened to abandon or never to conclude trade deals with these EU members.

In other countries, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia and Nepal, pervasive human rights abuses or generalized violence ran the risk of causing new or renewed displacement.

Similar questions surround Hezbollah s reasoning in unleashing large scale action that risked sectarian warfare and jeopardized its moral high ground.

2006 World Cup An injury that kept Messi from playing for two months at the end of the 2005 06 season jeopardised his presence in the 2006 World Cup.

We may debate the means by which it was pursued, and how successfully, but Russia s existential challenges were largely overcome.