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She was out of town when they struck, but they threatened to kill her if she ever returned to Memphis.
Regarding a prince’s personal behavior, Machiavelli advises keeping up the appearance of virtues such as honesty or generosity, but being ready to abandon them as soon as one’s interests are threatened.
And Paul said he was never really afraid, because she was more curious about him than threatened.
If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before?
We're threatened by the greatest weapon ever, and knowing a good thing when it sees it, the Air Force decides it needs the biggest computer ever to protect us.
There are many cases, some of which I talk about in the book, of people who have been slandered, called Nazis, physically assaulted, threatened with criminal prosecution for stumbling across or arguing about controversial findings.
So a lot of the assumptions that we make about the kind of occupations and tasks and jobs that are going to be threatened by automation in the future are very likely to be challenged going forward.
But their governments, needless to say, are relatively threatened by this.
"What?" "Well, he threatened everybody with cutlery.
But nevertheless, there are certain common threads that emerge from these comparisons of past societies that did or did not collapse and threatened societies today.
And he was extraordinarily brave, because the company is owned by Robert Mercer, the billionaire who bankrolled Trump, and he threatened to sue us multiple times, to stop us from publishing.
Further, when those officers responding to calls use force, that increases in areas where the percentage of the white population has also increased, aka gentrification, aka unicycles and oat milk, aka when BBQ Becky feels threatened, she becomes a threat to me in my own neighborhood, which forces me and people like me to police ourselves.
The best gatherings learn to cultivate good controversy by creating the conditions for it, because human connection is as threatened by unhealthy peace as by unhealthy conflict.
Raped repeatedly by her stepfather and threatened with violence if she tells anyone.
Eleven percent of the teen girls in our sample reported that they had been forced or threatened to do sexual things that the perpetrator saw in pornography.
Or, on the board of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, we have advocated on behalf of jailed, threatened, fired, exiled cartoonists.
Like many endangered species, fishing cats are threatened by habitat loss, mainly because of our international demand for farmed fish and shrimp, and the deforestation of nearly half the historic mangrove cover in South and Southeast Asia.
Meet Moshi, a tribal poacher, who not only stopped hunting and became our most prized conservationist, but also used his traditional knowledge to educate his entire community to stop hunting fishing cats, otters and the many other threatened species that live in the mangroves in his backyard.
But the good thing to come out of this tragedy is the attention that the story brought towards the plight of threatened wild animals.
These are now threatened by the Panama disease.
Throughout history, paradoxes have threatened to undermine everything we know, and just as often, they’ve reshaped our understanding of the world.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
And they are threatened by fines in case they speak.
Toyed with her sister, or threatened her pimp.
Something was overloading the computer, and threatened to abort the landing.
That's where you see some of the source, not from my fellow environmentalists, but from people who feel threatened by nuclear power.
She was desperate to keep her new family together— but the slow progress of abolition threatened this hope.
During one of her sermons, a mob of white men threatened to set fire to the tent where she was speaking.
These people over there will do everything they can to stop these kinds of organizations succeeding, because they're threatened by them.
The zones of production and distribution tend to lie in the developing world, and they are often threatened by appalling violence and bloodshed.
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