Threatened in example sentence

Starting in 1964, in conjunction with Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “New Society,” the government threatened to withhold federal funding for health, education, and other state and local programs from jurisdictions that resisted legislative and judicial desegregation orders.

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Now if I were to come to you face-to-face and come this close to you, you would feel threatened.

We threatened them.

We are mentally compressing our networks when we are being harassed, when we are being bullied, when we are threatened about losing a job, when we feel down and weak.

And that is the freedom of mobility that my great grandfather brought to people is now being threatened, just as the environment is.

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