The young guys get the threats and a veteran usually gets cut.

Not all the kicks and threats of the lieutenant could get them to keep fighting.

Any threat to get a better contract than that one.

He was Joseph - an important role - and only his mother's threats got Max to the church.

But the threat of going to jail will get the attention of top executives.

She had to quit letting the stupid threats get to her.

Just getting these institutions to follow their own policies takes a credible threat of legal action.

"A threat to my son got past you right here in this house," she said.

Even the threat of such action, he said, usually gets results.

American officers used threats and physical force to get others back into position.