"threaten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Saddam will credibly threaten, if we do, to take out a major U.S. city in a germ attack.
- But the Europeans are not good at credibly threatening force.
- The deterrent logic required the ability to credibly threaten the destruction of the Soviet capital and other major cities.
- But legalisms aside, it was his failure to apply pressure to our allies to credibly threaten the Serbs that permitted ethnic cleansing.
- This could happen only because the government of Nelson Mandela could credibly threaten the old apartheid killers with real jail time if they did not talk.
- The United States could credibly threaten them not only with the loss of power, but with dispossession.
- Saddam Hussein is producing his anthrax weapon for a clear purpose: to credibly threaten us with its use.
- "The Kremlin has to credibly threaten to bankrupt the company, in order to create an incentive for Khodorkovsky to negotiate."
- By 1992 Mr. Bush will no longer be able to credibly threaten employing force.
- If we keep our weapons, we can still credibly threaten massive retaliation if someone threatens us.
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