In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me.
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
When you have a president in his campaign who ran saying things that not are just contrary to a fact, but literally threatening to use presidential power in a way that would erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of Americans, God bless the protestors.
Donald Trump is a president in crisis. His governing agenda is going nowhere, his credibility shattered with many, his public approval is mired in the thirties and low forties, and an escalating Russia crisis is threatening to undermine the president's ability to persuade even Republicans that he can bounce back.
Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.