If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
[A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth. . . . More importantly , it is suffocating the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.
Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
I don't think people who are supporting the food movement ever want to be in a position where they are opposing the workers who are dependent on the system. The companies are very good at setting up workers and activists in opposition to each other, and getting the message out to workers that those people are threatening their jobs.
This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman. . . is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.
There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.
They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.
It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.