Gelsey Kirkland

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

American Dancer

Audrey Hepburn

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

British Actress

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

Egyptian Theologian

Felicity Jones

The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.

English Actress

Hussein of Jordan

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

Jordanian Royalty

Hector Bellerin

People should be able to express themselves without feeling threatened. That is true in football, but also in life.

Spanish Athlete

Gina Neely

I need a man that's comfortable in his skin and not threatened by a woman with a big personality.

American Actor

Iris Apfel

Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

American Businesswoman

Victor LaValle

Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

American Author

Jack Schlossberg

Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.

American Celebrity

Using 'threaten' can convey strong fear or anxiety in the listener or reader.

Emotional Impact

'Threaten' implies the speaker has some power or ability to carry out the harm.

Implied Power

Threats can be non-physical, targeting emotional well-being or reputation.

Not Always Physical

Use 'threaten' to express a present or very near future risk.

Immediate Danger

Often used to describe dangerous situations caused by nature.

Natural Events

'Threaten' suggests significant harm or damage, rather than trivial issues.

Scale of Harm

Use 'threaten' to signal something bad that might happen, often based on signs.

Indication of Future

Indicates a warning or a precursor to a serious issue if not addressed.

Warning Sign

'Threaten' is also used for actions that create worry or stress about what might happen.

Psychological

 Public speaking can threaten it. Before a speech, you fret, "What if people think I'm awful and I'm an idiot?" That fear of being seen as an awful idiot is a threat reaction from a primitive part of your brain that's very hard to control. It's the fight or flight response, a self-protective process seen in a range of animals,

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 temperature with massive and permanent ramifications although its consequences can be planet threatening scientists still believe there are things we can do on a personal level to help recycle and reuse things walk or use public transportation to get to work turn off your electronics when you're not using

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 towards people they have recognized as refugees, like the guarantee of a minimum standard of treatment and non-discrimination. The most basic obligation towards refugees is non-refoulement, a principle preventing a nation from sending an individual to a country where their life and freedom are threatened.

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 like reaching their full potential, or helping make people's lives better. But narcissistic individuals seek power for the status and attention that goes with it. Meanwhile, vulnerable narcissists can be quiet and reserved. They have a strong sense of entitlement, but are easily threatened or slighted.

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 a less threatening comment. Though the intended meaning was eventually clarified, the initial impact of Khrushchev's apparent words put the world on a path that could have led to nuclear armageddon. So now, given the complexities of language and cultural exchange,

How interpreters juggle...

 Confucius informed the duke that genuinely upright fathers and sons protected one another. During his travels, Confucius almost starved, he was briefly imprisoned, and his life was threatened at several points. But he was not bitter.

Who was Confucius? -...

 head don't say one word he said sir I put off driving all car while I'm begging in the lab me going every so often I got the gonna smack me upside my head and threatened to kill me I recognized the voice of the gunman is

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 today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self. So my patient Fernando, he's plagued. He goes "I thought I knew my life. I thought I knew who you were, who we were as a couple, who I was.

Rethinking infidelity...

 Some people just want to watch the world burn, and bats all over the world are threatened by damage to the places that we call home, including mangrove swamps, old-growth forests, and, of course, bat caves.

The truth about bats -...

 that runs out they will eat the young bee larvae too around the world people are now devoting their lives to saving some of the most threatened sea creatures as here in the caribbean

Threaten

To express a plan to harm or punish someone or something.

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To be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone.

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To indicate or suggest something bad or harmful that might happen in the future.

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Emotional Impact

Implied Power

Not Always Physical

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