No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

Polyphosphates gave renewed life to soap products at a time when surfactants were a threat though expensive, and these same polyphosphates spelled the decline of soap usage when the synergism between polyphosphates and synthetic detergent actives was recognized and exploited.

Intermarriage, which is generally regarded as a threat to Jewish survival, was regarded not with horror or apprehension but with a kind of mild, clinical disapproval.

William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.

An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.

His kingdom was faced with a threat from the north from the Franks ; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis.

The real reason that Joab killed Abner was that he became a threat to his rank of general.

She also eliminated or removed anyone who she considered was a potential threat to her position and the future of her son, one of her victims being Lucius ' second paternal aunt and Messalina's mother Domitia Lepida the Younger.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

" Any threat of war Clovis could make would only be effective if they were neighbors ; " it is nowhere written that Syagrius was handed over in 486 or 487.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

In military conflict against the rising Sassanid Empire there are mixed accounts, though the Sassanid threat was checked.

With the signing of the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, an event most commonly held to have taken place around 880 when Guthrum ’ s people began settling East Anglia, Guthrum was neutralised as a threat.

During his short reign, peace was established both at home and abroad, finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without the threat of a revolution.

During the 3rd century, under threat from a Herulian invasion, repairs were made to the Acropolis walls, and the " Beulé Gate " was constructed to restrict entrance in front of the Propylaia, thus returning the Acropolis to use as a fortress.

Whereas the claim above suggested that Luke was writing to Rome, this view proposes that Luke may be writing to the church in order to convince the saints of his own view that Rome is not a threat to the church.

Either way, the Athenians evidently realised that their city was still under threat, and marched as quickly as possible back to Athens.

Programmes of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s and were implemented in many countries, but only became widespread in the USA after the threat of nuclear weapons was realised.

Otho and Vitellius realised the potential threat posed by the Flavian faction.

Although the country was culturally, socially, and politically Western, Finns realised they had to live in peace with the USSR and take no action that might be interpreted as a security threat.

Messalina realised that Agrippina's son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Nero ) was a threat to her son's position and sent assassins to strangle Nero during his siesta.

However, the threat was never fully realised.

Meanwhile, outside the Frankfurt Assembly, the rulers of the German states gradually realised that their positions were no longer under threat.

He believes he is under constant threat from the Microwave Gun, and reads lots of science fiction, since " he had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out, the location or identity of the Key, there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing.

A month later, 1862 Apollo was seen to cross Earth's orbit, and the scientific community suddenly realised the potential threat these flying mountains presented.

300 infantrymen of Colonel John Hewson's regiment, who declared that they would not serve in Ireland until the Leveller programme had been realised, were cashiered without arrears of pay, which was the threat that had been used to quell the Corkbush Field mutiny.

When the Doctor wakes up, he has realised that Chambers must have had access to some kind of ultimate threat.

Freud wrote to Salomé that " I confess that I do not really miss him ; I had long realised that he could be of no further service ; indeed that he constituted a threat to the future.

So, while we properly inveigh against the new poisoning, history is not likely to justify the pose of righteousness which some in the West were so quick to assume when Mr. Khrushchev made his cynical and irresponsible threat.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.

This is a serious problem if one has either a single trade or many related trades with a single counterparty, whose failure thus poses a threat, or in the event of a financial crisis when many counterparties fail.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

The rebellion became a real threat to the Empire when the conflict escalated to northern Gaul and Germania.

The alliance commonly known as the Second Triumvirate, renewed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, as a major threat to his power.

It takes place when the conditional threat is decided upon by one particular individual or small group, and / or directed against some other individual or small group.

Distortion occurs when the individual perceives a threat to their self concept.

#“ The structure and organization of self appears to become more rigid under threats and to relax its boundaries when completely free from threat ” ( Rogers, 1951 ).

Tensions between the superpowers increased during this time, when Carter placed trade embargoes on the Soviet Union and stated that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was " the most serious threat to the peace since the Second World War.

During the Fear Itself storyline, Steve Rogers is present when the threat of the Serpent is known.

Many historians maintain that the main concern of Pope Urban II, when calling for the First Crusade, was the threat to Constantinople from the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor in response to the appeal of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

At first, the danger to a battle fleet was considered only to exist when at anchor, but as faster and longer range torpedoes were developed, the threat extended to cruising at sea.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

Perhaps more importantly, many people want a professional advocate when they become involved in a dispute, particularly if the dispute involves perceived legal rights, legal wrongdoing, or threat of legal action against them.

Unfortunately, the city is faced with a greater threat when the countdown ends and the Russian missile is launched from the satellite, leaving the Japanese government and people helpless to stop it.

Nile crocodiles can also be a threat to giraffes when they bend down to drink.

Life at Tara slowly begins to recover when a new threat appears in the form of new taxes on Tara.

There was almost a war with Parthia around 121, but the threat was averted when Hadrian succeeded in negotiating a peace.

In 16 October 2008, HINDRAF was banned when the government labelled the organisation as " a threat to national security ".