| 词汇 | example_english_threaten |
| 释义 | Examples of threatenThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The restriction imposed by the statute here threatens severe impairment of the judicial function. Marcus in his speech uses rhetorical means to release emotion that the initial shocking sight threatened to freeze. After 1921, even this minimum standard was threatened when the government responded to employers' complaints by cutting back on the number of new trade boards. At times, legal services workers have been threatened with charges of trespass. Anything that threatened this balance was anathema to him. Though the protagonist is clearly deserving of punishment, the capricious, almost arbitrary manner of the punishment threatens to eclipse his crimes. When she 'heard' her thoughts, she was frightened, felt out of control and her idyllic child-like environment threatened. He had benefited only recently from their influence when his position as abbot was threatened. Apart from doubts and hostility toward the notion of education for women, one incident threatened the whole venture. Rather, they lived in practical uncertainty, often felt threatened, and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them. Many trilobites could enroll when threatened, just like the living woodlouse some of them even evolved locking devices to make their enrollment really secure. Even so, the threatening waters do not retreat. Many of them, perhaps, were children of the ladies who had threatened the archbishop's predecessor thirty years before. Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire. However, in circumstances when life itself is not threatened, the purpose becomes one of preventing, or at least minimising, injury and ill-health. If the hammer were still threatening it into destruction, it would bounce back on this plastic and resilient network. Under threatening circumstances, the working models become activated and shape interpretations of what is happening in the current relationship. The most serious danger that threatens humanity is a consumerist ethic which tolerates only one absolute value, individual freedom to choose among available commodities. In other words, to influence electoral outcomes, it is not enough for voters to feel threatened by immigrants. However, it is impossible with any confidence to interpret threats based on evidence concerning the actual occurrence of what is threatened. Patients may fall into several categories including those who require immediate treatment due to life threatening lesions, and treatment for symptomatic cases. However, unlike women's 'gossip', the speaker's, target's and listeners' faces are never directly threatened when men tell stories. The more ominous corollary is that once access to these composers is no longer possible, the longevity of their work becomes seriously threatened. As these threatening practices accumulate, they make it more likely that eventually a crisis or militarized dispute will occur that escalates to war. At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted. They are not applicable to modern threatening events such as failures, injuries, and conflicts in different social relationships. Theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages. In what way do dreams of this type help to avoid the real world threatening situations of the waking state? Moreover, they threatened to excommunicate anybody who disagreed with them. When targets appeared 250 ms after one location was cued, all anxious subjects were slow to disengage from the threatening location. Among the latter, some viewed workers as eliteled, while others saw them as radical and threatening but defeated by 1916\\17. Under logrolling, intense minorities, as potential coalition partners in a majority coalition, can get their way on particular dimensions by threatening to block overall agreement. We were threatening to take the bread away, and so, we felt that we had to give a "laborious" proof to persuade them. However, this objection proves too much, since, given the sea of injustices that has characterized human history, this threatens to undermine almost all current ownership. Weather conditions at the time were calm and mild, so that the hafgerdingar did not appear to be immediately threatening. There is something brute about this conclusion which threatens to trivialise one's subject matter and seems capable of draining its meaningfulness at a single stroke. Tribunals were popular with chiefs, and suspending or reorganizing them threatened important sources of revenue : fees and fines. On the other hand, the conservation policy has had some adverse effects which work in the direction of threatening the wildlife in the long term. At a closer look, it is easy to identify more clearly the two enemies threatening argumentative discourse from the outside. In the present paper, agents have heterogeneous beliefs, but the existence of periodic equilibria is not threatened. 10. The most common response of peoples threatened by regular attacks was to build walls. Whether an innovation is adopted can depend on whether a specialism can use it without threatening dominant interests in the occupation. In fact, the decentralisation project threatened the clientelist politicians who depended on health care patronage to sustain the political networks that underpinned their electoral machines. Much more immediately threatening is the probability that agricultural systems will be disrupted. On the other hand the requirement threatens to deny consciousness to many nonprimate animals that we intuitively regard as conscious in the phenomenal sense. In concert, they besieged the municipal offices to demand reimbursement in cash and threatened to withdraw their labour if this was not conceded. How could anyone be tranquil in the enjoyment of liberty while remaining ever alert against the many dangers that threatened? The chemical factories in the park produced serious pollutants that threatened the villagers' health and damaged their farmland. Mid- and late-century improvers came to identify certain outsiders as threatening the very existence of collective self-improvement. Even the volumes that had not been damaged during shipment were threatened, for they now faced the debilitating humidity of their new, tropical home. They particularly threatened the economic security of the typical widow, a woman with no holdings of her own who had joined her husband's patronym group. Any such justification must, at a minimum, be substantially weaker than the justification in cases in which the threatening person's responsibility makes him liable. First, technological innovation, while historically the source of legitimacy and authority for the medical profession, also threatens established hierarchies and interests within the profession. As the politician himself described the incident to me, 174 women surrounded his house and sang threatening songs to him. Not surprisingly, those who are threatened are those who have felt threatened in the past. Students threatened to demonstrate i if the government refused to initiate new reforms. Even if we concede that "threatening" events are over-represented in dreams, rather than more easily remembered, revonsuo's "threat simulation" proposal is not convincing. Not only do they look threatening, they actually are; few sailors have survived to tell of them. In this context, they became a powerful foreign force that threatened to overpower, even absorb, the national organism. There was a public furore which threatened serious political damage for senior officials of the ruling party. Observe that, by definition of overriding, strict rules cannot be overridden, since they are never threatened. In medieval times, however, orthodoxy was not threatened by goddess language in poetry, art or visionary accounts since it did not challenge ecclesiastical power. Both players credibly threatened negative rewards, which explains why the interaction sometimes risked developing into conflict. Although it is satisfying to see there is no threatening incompatibility here either, we would not like to shortcut the issue this way. Science for ladies became very popular in the seventeenth century, and studying science was not seen as threatening the traditional virtue of a lady. The answer in the large majority of clinical situations is that the maximum temperatures fall far below those threatening cell viability. Persons threatened by psychiatric disorder because of temperamental attributes like neuroticism, may remain at risk of somatic problems even if mental illness is averted. When challenged, the defender will attempt deterrence by also threatening to fight, hoping that the challenger will not press on with her demands. The bad harvest of 1795 threatened severe deprivation. Many of them feel threatened by the forces of international competition and a globalised culture. As such, anything that threatens the body and everything associated with it will be perceived as a real threat and will engender fear. Indeed, another patient said that talk about hospice has felt very threatening. People with persecutory delusions regard ambiguous data in the social domain as selfrelevant and selectively attend to threatening information. Both their bodies and their characters are indeterminate, threatening the determinacy of men. Approaching prospects as an act threatening their negative face. The spread of world religions, along with their cultures and languages, is seen, on the one hand, to have threatened linguistic diversity. Finally, their juxtaposition of wage labour against the security of land tenure threatens to polarise the debate into simple either\\or dichotomies. He was horrified by her question and shamed her, threatening to tell her parents if she ever mentioned it again. In short, integration has been achieved, but integrity is threatened. As worrying was the policy of the repr'sentants, which threatened to destroy the existing distinction between e sovereignty and government by making the government democratic. In his relationship with his wife, he is ruthless, par ticularly when his authority is threatened. As medical power is threatened by marketisation and de-professionalisation, contemporary health care has become even more of a battleground for status and control. Persecutorydelusions and the recall of threatening and nonthreatening propositions. Not surprisingly, network activity was most directed towards policies, which threatened the preservation of the network. Only in situations in which impartiality and formal rules are not threatened, will quangos be established. The language used by the government became threatening. The difference of course is that use of a military veto, unlike a political veto, threatens the very existence of the state. Mega-scandals in the country have had serious effects on economic and political institutions, threatening democracy. After the reform became law, the government's attitude towards the civil service unions became less respectful and some strike action was threatened early in 2004. There are a couple of ways in which the divisiveness of hate speech threatens the development of a deliberative culture. Accepting checkerboards threatens the general project of pursuing justice. He will thus be able later, by threatening to wreck my career, to cause me to choose to act wrongly. Such belief and inclination are increasing by the day - something that threatens to result in widespread corruption in faith. They were threatened and harassed in various ways to leave the land. Such industrial action often threatened the entire law and order machineries in the mill towns. They can play a significant part in the socialisation process and in challenging age discrimination, without threatening their commercial goals. At the same time he told the press that continual reporting on what had happened threatened to inflate the affair out of all proportion. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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