"threaten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During the 1980s and early 1990s, he became known for threatening civil war to maintain white rule in South Africa.
- Germany gained nothing of importance but was mollified and stopped threatening war.
- "As long as you can threaten war, you'll always be able to negotiate."
- Istanbul does not see it that way, and has threatened war, if necessary, to block deployment.
- It was one thing to threaten war, but quite another to follow through and actually declare it.
- Germany made increasingly aggressive territorial demands, threatening war if they were not met.
- Don't you just know we'd threaten war if that's what it took to gain equal access?
- Threaten war, and suddenly weapons inspectors are back in Iraq.
- Still, it is true that he has never specifically threatened war against Israel.
- Mr. Bush did not threaten war, but that was his clear implication.
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