In 1000 – 1 Normandy gave shelter to a Viking army threatening England, and Æthelred may have attempted an invasion of Normandy in response, but in 1002 he changed tack and arranged to marry Emma, the sister of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, as his second wife.

In the cities affected the loss to the Huguenot communities after the massacres was numerically far larger than those actually killed ; in the following weeks there were mass conversions to Catholicism, apparently in response to the threatening atmosphere for Huguenots in these cities.

In response to the RMT declaring a 48-hour strike on 10 June 2009, Crow wrote in The Guardian Comment is free section the purpose of the move: " On London Underground, bosses are threatening to tear up an agreement aimed at safeguarding jobs, and have refused to rule out compulsory redundancies.

In Park's role, he acts as a Skywalker Ranch security guard who says, " Time for you to get mauled, boy ," as he pulls out two nightsticks ( in response to Windows threatening him with a toy lightsaber ).

They were soon sent to reinforce the British troops in the Suez Canal Zone in response to Egyptian nationalists threatening the bases there.

In response, the White House released a statement threatening a veto if the bill is passed by the Senate.

In the human fight or flight response in prehistoric times, fight was manifested in aggressive, combative behavior and flight was manifested by fleeing potentially threatening situations, such as being confronted by a predator.

Suicide by cop is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately acts in a threatening way, with the goal of provoking a lethal response from a law enforcement officer or other legitimately armed individual, such as being shot to death.

Bin Laden had wanted to move the operation up in response to Sharon's threatening visit to the Temple Mount, and again in response to the Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp, which left 4, 000 persons homeless.

In 1765 he made his response to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which had stigmatized the Secession as threatening the peace of the country.

* June 21 – 22 – In response to an erroneous report that a Japanese task force is threatening Nome in the Territory of Alaska, 55 U. S. Army Air Forces and commandeered civilian aircraft carry out the first mass airlift in U. S. military history, carrying 2, 272 men, 20 antiaircraft guns, and tons of supplies in 179 trips from Anchorage to Nome over a 24-hour period.

In an emergency call, the recipient or emergency operator's ability to extract primarily linguistic information in threatening situations and to come up with the required response in a timely manner is crucial to the successful completion of the call.

4 of 7 specific issues must be present, which include different types of suspicions or doubt ( such as of being exploited, or that remarks have a subtle threatening meaning ), in some cases regarding others in general or specifically friends or partners, and in some cases referring to a response of holding grudges or reacting angrily.

His stay in New York would also be marred by a number of incidents, such as threatening sportswriter Bob Klapisch that he would " show him the Bronx " in response to his book on the 1992 Mets, The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse Of The New York Mets ( ISBN 978-0803278226 ).

Also called the " fight or flight " response of the body to an event our mind considers life threatening, tachypsychia is believed to include numerous physical changes.

" Not everyone admired the letters, however: the pro-appeasement Times refused to publish him after 1935, and when he condemned the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the democracies ' inadequate response, Ezra Pound sent him a threatening and abusive reply.

As a theory of criminal behavior, subculture of violence theory claims that certain groups or subcultures exist in society in which violence is viewed as an appropriate response to what, in the context of that subculture, are perceived as threatening situations.

When rushed to the hospital, she is rendered comatose and brain dead, much to the chagrin of investigating officer Sean McKinney ( Robert Davi ) who had caught the report of Katie using excessive force in a hostage situation seeming to make the clerk an innocent victim and in response threatening to free the badly injured Frank Jessup.

She argues that the RWA Scale can be viewed as a measure of expressed authoritarianism, but that other measures are needed to assess authoritarian predispositions which interact with threatening circumstances to produce the authoritarian response.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

Willingness to take the risk of early and direct interpretation ( with the proviso that if the interpretation is too threatening, the worker can withdraw ) is another prominent feature in these efforts.

Headquarters of the Nassau system is an increasingly busy place these days, threatening to expand beyond its boundaries.

Our enemy is also threatening to devour us.

Miss Stuart is as intensely vibrant as one could wish, almost an icy shriek threatening to explode at any moment.

Their appearance is less confrontational and threatening than tanks, and their size and maneuverability is said to be more compatible with tight urban spaces designed for wheeled vehicles.

The threatening appearance of a tank is often enough to keep an opponent from attacking, whereas a less threatening vehicle such as an armored car is more likely to be attacked.

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.

David eventually gains two new wives as a result of threatening to raid a village, and Michal is redistributed to another husband.

< cite id = disputedinjunction > The Vatican archives contain an unsigned copy of a more strongly worded formal injunction purporting to have been served on Galileo shortly after Bellarmine's admonition, ordering him " not to hold, teach, or defend " the condemned doctrine " in any way whatever, either orally or in writing ", and threatening him with imprisonment if he refused to obey .</ cite > However, whether this injunction was ever properly served on Galileo is a subject of much scholarly disagreement.

The use of insulting or threatening language in the magistrates ' courts or against a magistrate is in breach of HK Laws.

Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Also forbidden are political parties supporting militia formations or having an agenda that is contradictory to the constitution and its principles, or threatening the country's stability such as national unity between Muslim Egyptians and Christian Egyptians.

The main controversy over both school vouchers and education tax credits is that they put public education in direct competition with private education, threatening to reduce and reallocate public school funding to private schools.

An enemy or foe is a being that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening.

In most early examples this work has now entirely vanished, but a whole fresco done a secco on a surface roughened to give a key for the paint may survive very well, although damp is more threatening to it than to buon fresco.

Specifically, several research groups have reported that pre-eclampsia, a life threatening complication that sometimes arises in pregnancy, is much less frequent in couples who have practiced oral sex, and even more rare in couples where fellatio regularly ended with a woman's swallowing of her partner's semen.

Sweden agreed to indirectly support the invasion of the United Provinces, by threatening Brandenburg if that state should intervene in the war against the Dutch Republic.

After the agreement was announced, Russian officials-who view the missile shield as a threat-released a statement indirectly threatening Poland, and said that the missile defense system would greatly harm future US / Russia relations.

In the piece, Barry Posen classified himself as a " selective engagement " advocate, with the caveat that the United States should not only act to reduce the likelihood of great power war, but also oppose the rise of a Eurasian hegemon capable of threatening the United States.

With a Communist insurgency threatening Greece, and Britain financially unable to continue its aid, the President announced his Truman Doctrine on 12 March 1947, " to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ", with an aid request for consideration and decision, concerning Greece and Turkey.

This robust and subtle capability is the result of eons of natural selection favoring people most able to quickly identify the mental state, for example, of threatening people, thus providing the individual an opportunity to flee or attack preemptively.