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Threatening to burn down the capital of Moldavia, the city of Iași, he forced the Moldavian boyars to sign the annexation of Moldavia.
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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.
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Threatening government officials is another classic way of expressing defiance toward the government and unwillingness to stand for its policies.
* Threatening public officials, especially judges, with prosecution if they don't unduly support their cases.
Threatening a Luftwaffe attack on Prague, Hitler persuaded Hácha to order the capitulation of the Czechoslovak army.
Threatening behaviors may be conceptualized as a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for interrelational dominance generally seen in animals.
Threatening to lead a mass writers ' exodus, Will successfully wrests his editor-in-chief position back from Alden, and negotiates for additional supervisory powers.
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.
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.
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.
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It would be made in three waves -- the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below.
The Basilica Aemilia in the Roman Forum did burn down, which perhaps can be attributed to Alaric: the archaeological evidence was provided by coins dating from 410 found melted in the floor.
Sometimes a misdealt card ( such as one of the down cards in poker that has flashed during the deal ) will be used as the burn card — in those cases, the card should be immediately placed face up on the deck after the deal is complete.
People take this world as reality pursuing worldly projects and pleasures without realizing that the house is on fire and will soon burn down ( due to the inevitability of death ).
Candle clocks and sticks of incense that burn down at approximately predictable speeds have also been used to estimate the passing of time.
A few days later, the firemen are called in to burn down the house of an old woman who has been hoarding books.
Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lang joined the MGM studio and directed the crime drama Fury, starring Spencer Tracy as a man wrongly accused of a crime and then attacked by lynch mob who burn down the jail where he is awaiting trial and it is assumed they killed him in the flames, but did not.
: a “ bet ” with an insurer on whether one's house will burn down is not gambling, but rather insurance — as the homeowner has an obvious interest in the continued existence of his / her home independent of the purely financial aspects of the " bet " ( i. e., the insurance policy ).
This combined with the military losses, epidemics, poor harvests so weakened Russia that the Crimean Tatars were able to sack central Russian regions and burn down Moscow ( 1571 ).
In revenge, the latter sailed to Jan Mayen, where the Dutch had left for the winter, to plunder the Dutch equipment and burn down the settlements and factories.
The libertines plotted to make trouble and on 16 May they set off to burn down a house that was supposedly full of Frenchmen.
* 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
* 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
* 1944 – World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
In effort to restore the Volga khanates, Crimeans and their Ottoman allies invaded central Russia and were even able to burn down parts of Moscow in 1571.
A mob descended upon Christopher Street once again and threatened to burn down the offices of The Village Voice.
Some thought they ought to hurl it down from the rocks, others thought they should burn it, while others said they ought to dedicate it to Athena.
When his intentions became known to the lodge, an attempt was made to burn down the publishing house.
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