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How to use the word threatens in a Sentence?

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Restricted access to this safe therapeutic threatens the health of real people – people who are mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and friends – in our country.

– Courtney Schreiber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Make no mistake: As we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hope that our Australian government and the Australian people will have a clear mind about what happened and be careful about what might happen in the future, when somebody threatens you, he might threaten you again. China has been your friend. We will continue to be your friend.

– Xiao Qian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Biden administration wants the pill to have wide access, so anything that threatens that agenda will be kept secret, if this pill is as important as the Biden administration suggests, then American women have the right to as much information as possible on its safety and efficacy.

– Judicial Watch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Expanding Medicare beyond its current mission of seniors 65 and older threatens to speed up Medicare’s insolvency and would hasten the day Medicare no longer has enough money to provide health care for seniors.

– Jake Cox

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Currency volatility has accelerated and absolute valuations are at multidecade extremes. History is not kind to such a backdrop, while the dollar helps the Fed fight inflation, it also threatens US corporate earnings through foreign profit translation and a deterioration in competitiveness.

– Lisa Shalett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most important economic decision a woman makes in her lifetime is when and whether to have a child and this court decision threatens to rip that away from every woman in the country, it's going to be up to governors and that's why this fight is so important.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But on the 25th anniversary of the handover, we simply can not avoid the fact that for some time now, Beijing has been failing to comply with its obligations. It's a state of affairs that threatens both the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong ' and the continued progress and prosperity of their home.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a balancing act for Turkey, the Turks see themselves as the masters of the Black Sea region. They’ve never been very comfortable with the Russian build-up of military equipment in Crimea. It definitely threatens Turkish interests.

– Michael Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am grateful to President Biden for the honor of nominating me, and I wish this administration well as it strives to overcome the paralyzing political gridlock that threatens far more than our nation's border, frankly, the dysfunction threatens America's heart and soul.

– Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This ruling puts women's health in jeopardy, denies them their human rights, and threatens to dismantle the progress we've made toward gender equality in the workplaces since Roe, business leaders must step up to support the health and safety of their employees by speaking out against the wave of abortion bans that will be triggered as a result of this decision, and call on Congress to codify Roe into law.

– Jeremy Stoppelman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Opening boys’ and girls’ bathrooms to students of the opposite biological sex threatens the privacy and safety of all students, no law requires schools to go down that dangerous path. No controlling precedent holds that Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause means that schools must permit students to use whatever bathrooms they like.

– Todd Rokita

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Biden Administration needs to wake up and learn that it is not acceptable to use children for an experimental woke agenda, by pushing to expand access to dangerous cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors without parental consent, Biden’s Executive Order threatens the physical and mental health – and futures – of our nation’s children. It’s also an unprecedented power grab, using the stroke of a pen to bully governors and parents who are simply trying to protect kids in their state.

– Jessica Anderson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a tectonic shift that threatens to derail the post-2003 political order in its entirety.

– Ranj Alaaldin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole city is prepared to give a fight, i don't want to do this, but if someone threatens my independence, my people, then yes I'm ready to take a gun to protect.

– Oleksandr Prokhorenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine using military and cyber weapons violates international law and the fundamental human rights of the Ukrainian people, i condemn this unjust assault on the sovereignty of Ukraine that threatens security in Europe and the entire world, and I call on President Putin to halt all military action and restore peace.

– Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Biden administration’s disregard for the rule of law knows no bounds, since the president took office a year ago, we have seen at least 2.4 million people enter this country illegally. For DHS and TSA to allow known criminals who possess an arrest warrant to fly on U.S. aircraft threatens our homeland security. This out-of-control flow of illegal immigration that has created the crisis at the border is a direct result of the Biden administration’s policies.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Until Congress moves to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, every new variant that could impact how consumers use restaurants threatens to push thousands closer to closing permanently.

– Sean Kennedy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But as places like Gwinnett County get more diverse, communities of color are starting to challenge for power, and that threatens the status quo, people are asking for a seat at the table, and that worries some of the people who are at the table right now.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Climate change threatens life on Earth, we have to fight climate change and biodiversity loss at the same time. Climate changes gets a lot more attention than extinction, but extinction is a big problem.

– Tierra Curry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even though we are in a good place right now, we are not out of the epidemic. And the government will not hesitate to act quickly if the pandemic again threatens important functions in our society.

– Magnus Heunicke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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