Threatened in example sentence

For weeks, Republicans in the House of Representatives threatened to keep the government shuttered – thereby preventing it from extending its borrowing authority beyond the October 17 deadline – in order to challenge laws that were enacted by Congress as a whole and upheld by the Supreme Court.

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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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