Threatened in example sentence

Regarding preventive use of force, traditional interpretations of Article 51 of the UN Charter (which provides a right of self-defense) allow a threatened state to take pre-emptive action in the face of imminent attack, but not to use force preventively against longer term threats.

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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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