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Is it enough to just know it will be threatening?

From The Verge • Jun. 11, 2015

Or can you be convicted simply for recklessly disregarding the risk that it will be threatening to the recipient?

From The Verge • Jun. 11, 2015

With the end of the war the danger will be threatening; and we must meet it as we met the feebler menace of Prussian militarism—but we must meet it and conquer it with intangible weapons.

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

If this is so, he will be threatening the retreat of the Boers here soon.

From With Rimington by Phillipps, L. March