Word: threaten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whatever vulnerability the Bullock decision may seem to suggest for the tobacco industry, more than anything, it highlights the dangers inherent in using individual liability lawsuits to punish big tobacco. Not only have suits like Bullock’s been historically ineffective, but they also threaten to weaken support for other more effective types of legal attacks. Collective suits, like class actions or those by the government, exert more financial leverage on tobacco companies, rest on a stronger legal foundation and engender less skepticism from the public...
...Terror strikes behind the lines aren't the only security concern facing the U.S. in the region as tension escalates. There's also the prospect of mass anti-American demonstrations that could threaten the stability of some of its key allies in the region, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. President Bush has already been burned in effigy many times over this year in the streets of Arab capitals, although the trigger issue until now has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Earlier this year, the wave of Arab anger sparked by Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities even reached...
...guard and coolly rifled through files containing details of police agents and their handlers. If the I.R.A. has indeed been spying on the British government, Trimble says, London should throw Sinn Fein out of the power-sharing arrangement. Doubts about the I.R.A.'s intentions have already led Trimble to threaten a January walkout from Stormont. Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid said he wants the police investigation to run its course before any political fallout, but unionists say Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has to rein in the I.R.A. now. The crisis was pulling in Prime Minister Tony Blair, as Trimble...
...attire, addressing generals, or when he’s making a speech from his balcony with a shotgun pointed straight in the air. These aren’t images that make Saddam endearing. Worse yet, Saddam distances himself even further when he uses bombastic language and complicated syntax to threaten America. If only he would speak in cooler terms we might be willing to overlook his calls for our country’s destruction. He could threaten to “whack” any U.S. soldier who invades Iraq, or he could drop the F-bomb a couple...
...Islamabad's entreaties to the Western world. And yet both countries continue to blame each other at every possible opportunity, knee-jerk responses that would be tediously predictable if the potential implications weren't so terrifying. The worry is that instead of cracking down on domestic extremists who threaten true progress, what Aqil Shah, an Islamabad political analyst and author, calls a "relentless exchange of accusations" will occasion a return to "the heightened tension of a few months ago." And yet that's where these two leaders who now have so much in common seem to be headed...