Word: threatenings
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...intervention would also give the US the power to regulate the pricing and marketing of oil to its restive allies. And while this crude threat is not to be overestimated--after all, it is not very likely that the US will threaten to turn off the taps to Japan, or even France--the point would be underlined that American leadership of the capitalist world cannot be questioned without serious hardship for the questioner. Implicit though it may remain, the message would be impossible to misread...
...establish himself as the dominant educational leader on campus, as were his predecessors before Pusey, his protective wall is starting to crumble. Recent announcements of future resignations by faculty deans and the likely departure of at least one of his four vice presidents, plus a host of lesser changes, threaten to force Bok back into his managerial role...
...Only one country might endanger the present stability in the Middle East. That country is Syria. I think the main purpose of Syria in May of this year [when the mandate expires] will be to play brinkmanship and threaten war for the sake of extricating gains. But I have to say this with certain reservations because logic was not the dominant factor in the behavior of Syria...
...commercial aircraft flown outside the Soviet Union. The British take a similar point of view. In a joint statement, the French and British governments warned: "Any move by the U.S. which might be interpreted as protectionist or discriminatory would tend, throughout the world, to threaten the relatively free and uninhibited environment in which aviation products are bought and sold...
...shocked at the heroine's outspokenness, and make liberal use of handkerchiefs, tears, and smelling salts. Vapid young men simper about in absurd clothes, worrying only about the make of their Hessians and the height of their collars. Brainless beauties fall desperately in love with ineligible fortune hunters and threaten to elope across the border to Scotland in the face of their family's disapproval. These other, less competent characters make Heyer's novels witty, as well as sentimental--they are constantly embroiling themselves in absurd engagements to avoid the disgrace of having been found alone with a member...