Threatened in example sentence

When the Afghan Taliban – another puritanical Sunni movement with a special hatred for Iran – overran the city of Mazar-i-Sharif and executed eight Iranian diplomats in August 1998, Iran massed 70,000 troops on the border and threatened to invade.

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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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