Threatening to burn down the capital of Moldavia, the city of Iași, he forced the Moldavian boyars to sign the annexation of Moldavia.

Many critics, as well as many of those who used the book to justify their support of the invasion, overlooked the more balanced presentation on the pros and cons of war to be found in The Threatening Storm.

The young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some enmity towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this entry in a list of sins committed up to the age of 19: " Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them.

* Threatening to desecrate the Koran in front of him

Threatening to tear the Makuta's head off, the other Bitils blast him with energy.

Threatening to lead a mass writers ' exodus, Will successfully wrests his editor-in-chief position back from Alden, and negotiates for additional supervisory powers.

C .; Weinrich, J. D., Definition and Measurement of Sexual Orientation, in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, vol.

Threatening government officials is another classic way of expressing defiance toward the government and unwillingness to stand for its policies.

Threatening alliances were guarded against through strict marriage rules.

* Threatening public officials, especially judges, with prosecution if they don't unduly support their cases.

Bb4 Threatening to drive away the bishop with ... Ra6, followed by ... b5 winning the queen.

Rxb4 31. Bxc6 Rxb2 Threatening 31 ... Ra2 #.

Threatening a Luftwaffe attack on Prague, Hitler persuaded Hácha to order the capitulation of the Czechoslovak army.

: Threatening Qh5 #, a basic Fool's Mate.

Threatening behaviors may be conceptualized as a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for interrelational dominance generally seen in animals.

b. ( U ) Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol ;

e. ( U ) Threatening male detainees with rape ;

In his second book, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq ( pub.

In The Threatening Storm, Pollack argued " the only prudent and realistic course of action left to the United States is to mount a full-scale invasion of Iraq to smash the Iraqi armed forces, depose Saddam ’ s regime, and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction .” Pollack predicted, “ It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars .” Likewise, he wrote, “ we should not exaggerate the danger of casualties among American troops.

* Threatening flight safety.

* Threatening crew members and other passengers.

* Threatening to use or using a firearm or other deadly weapon.

Threatening absolute disappearance just a few years later in 1997, Getafe survived relegation into the fourth level Tercera División following a two-legged playoff victory over Huesca.

McGregor went on to write two additional early graphic novels for Eclipse, each set in contemporary New York City and starring interracial-buddy private eyes Ted Denning and Bob Rainier: Detectives, Inc .: A Remembrance of Threatening Green ( 1980 ), with artist Marshall Rogers, and Detectives, Inc .: A Terror Of Dying Dreams ( 1985 ), with artist Gene Colan, who would become a frequent collaborator.

Currently MAPS is conducting a study on LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Anxiety Secondary to Life Threatening Illness.

Threatening to shoot her, he demanded to know her employer.

This iteration can be repeated again and again, with the Sphex never seeming to notice what is going on, never able to escape from its programmed sequence of behaviors.

The relationship quickly soured based mostly on McCloud's seeming disregard of authority combined with a charm that let him escape many of the consequences of his " cowboy-like " determination.

The passage was removed from the published Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien to escape the seeming discrepancy with The Lord of the Rings, although later he admitted that he was unable to interpret his father's intentions and regretted the suppression.

Moriarty wishes to escape the artificial world of the holodeck and was assured by the crew of the Enterprise that they would endeavor to find a way to free him, and is irritated at the lack of results on the part of the crew and their seeming lack of even the tiniest bit of effort.

Mat and his coterie escape Seanchan territory by means of Valan Luca's Travelling Menagerie, and during their journey Mat begins to court Tuon in earnest, seeming to finally accept his fate.

During the next mission 8-Ball is arrested ( setting the stage for his escape in GTA IIIs intro sequence ), but Mike manages to escape on the late Cisco's ( the Colombian boss ') plane, after seeming to kill Vinnie's real boss, King Courtney.

A transport is arranged to take the robots to Titan but at the last moment the police close in so Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein with a few volunteers lead a seeming suicide mission to fight off the authorities and buy time for their comrades to escape.

All the imprisoned characters escape when Trouble-All, a seeming madman for whom Dame Purecraft has conceived a sudden passion, fights with the guards.

Fortunately her seeming death allows her to be connect with the Phoenix Force, though in full control over her powers this time, and escape with Logan back to Earth.

In what Issac Deutscher calls " the great change ", the new policies of industrialisation and collectivisation now adopted were carried out in a ruthless and brutal way, via the use of the security and military forces, without the direct involvement of the working class and peasantry itself and without seeming regard for the social consequences.

Poor share price performance in the early years and a seeming failure to attract a broad enough shareholder base lent weight to the criticism that Endace should have focused initially on developing its local profile ( via NZX ) rather than pushing for overseas investment ( via London AIM ).

France's seeming intransigence in settling a colonial war that tied down half the manpower of its armed forces was also a source of concern to its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.

Many candidates also criticized Davis's immigration policy, and were particularly enraged by Davis's seeming support of the court ruling striking down most of Proposition 187 as unconstitutional and his more recent support for issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

For instance, in Who's on First, Oakes deliberately chooses not to stop the Soviet Union from launching Sputnik ahead of the otherwise-superior US satellite program, in order to protect the life of a Soviet contact ( and thus the seeming Soviet technological triumph was actually authorized by a US agent, who allowed it to happen ); in Marco Polo, if You Can, Oakes is the real-life U2 pilot Gary Powers, and allows himself to be captured while flying over the Soviet Union in order to create a cover story for a secret US intelligence operation ( and thus the U2 incident was actually planned from the start, Gary Powers was not shot down by the Soviet military but deliberately set up his own capture, and U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's subsequent humiliation by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev never happened ).

As a favourite trick for his friends, he would rapidly write seeming nonsense on a blackboard, look at it thoughtfully for a minute with a puzzled expression, then turn the blackboard upside down and there would be a perfectly written statement of some kind.