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Today, I found out my parents are threatening to disown me if I plan on marrying the man of my dreams, a soldier.

It helps that I'm cute. With a small frame, light hazel eyes, and short blond hair that curls under my chin, I don't appear threatening.

The dark room had a threatening appearance; furthermore, I knew a family of mice had nested there.

When an inmate is in a life-threatening situation or seriously ill, he or she can reach out for help quickly, " he said. "

So the last thing they need right now is a terrorist group threatening to turn Greece into a "war zone. "

"So what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them. "

His health was bad and his wife spent the last half of their fifty-year marriage threatening divorce in an effort to stop him smoking.

This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya's population is only a fraction of Iraq's or Afghanistan's.

If processes improper, sends cures the sore in the cheek face, very easy to walk Huang Er to have life-threatening.

Perhaps an account of Yang's family history, if it were ever to come to light, would be more politically threatening than his documentary.

If fat is wrapped around the heart, liver or other organs it could lead to life-threatening conditions.

He gave only his surname, Sheng, because he said some of those involved had received threatening phone calls urging them to stop protesting.

The arrests also remind us that the enemy is still at large, threatening our safety and security.

Obstetric hemorrhage is often a sudden, life-threatening event.

Of all the dishes, this is the one most likely to be mistaken for a threatening message from the mob. It' a sheep' head. Boiled.

Food allergy can take the form of a sudden life-threatening reaction known as anaphylaxis, as well as eczema or an itchy rash.

Meanwhile, thousands of children continue to be poisoned by the metal, setting them up for life-threatening problems later in life.

An important example is the chaotic behavior of ventricular fibrillation, a severely abnormal heart rhythm that is often life-threatening.

Its tactics seem to have been copied from America, which in 2006 struck at online-gambling firms by threatening the banks that they used.

Reality: Such a declaration can be quite threatening, and is likely to be met with at least some resistance.

Any of these complications, especially coupled with an infection, can be life-threatening.

it had sought human companionship and help and it made no threatening gesture as she looped one end of the torn petticoat about its horns.

They stepped out. The sky had darkened and was threatening a hard rain. A few drops pattered against the building.

That's life-threatening, although with treatment, the fatality rate is still pretty low, about less than a tenth of a percent.

A strong gust of wind blew briskly across the lake, bringing with it, torrential rain and threatening thunderstorms.

They had no other means of getting the truth out of the young man but by torturing and threatening.

The party is threatening to stand on its own in future elections, an option that would look more realistic if the ANC were to split.

The catch was that investment banks were taking what turned out to be life-threatening gambles.

IRIS is often life-threatening and is responsible for the relatively high mortality among patients beginning ART.

Any mention of suicide should be taken seriously. If someone you know is threatening to commit suicide, try to find out whether the person.

Please treat this as my final demand for you to cease and desist perpetrating any conduct of a threatening nature upon me.

East of Paris the German thrust beyond the Seine and the Marne, threatening to turn the Maginot line, appears to have made little progress.

It is possible that it identifies too many very early cancers that may not eventually progress to a life threatening problem.

Imagine bribing an Alzheimer's patient to keep her dementia from worsening, or threatening to impose a penalty on her if it did.

This infuriated Peter, who offered him a pardon if he returned, threatening him with lifelong pursuit in exile if he did not.

To which she held up one of heR arms in a threatening gesture, so I shut my mouth.

The consequences of that would be all the more threatening against a background of already shrinking output and trade flows.

They also subpoenaed Smocovitis, hoping to get her to say that Proctor had been threatening to "out" the grad students in question.

Shut them down and risk revolt; leave them alone and a growing number of wealthy traders could form a threatening constituency.

The wind direction will switch to an onshore direction Monday night into Tuesday, threatening to send the radiation toward the population.

Ask the young in Iran, who seem capable of holding on to the idea that the US is at once threatening and a model to be emulated.

If it fails to strengthen regional ties, it is destined to see its economic expansion hemmed in by unsympathetic and threatening neighbours.

Police said they had not heard of any life-threatening injuries.

Yu suggested the North may be threatening the restoration of its Yongbyon facility as a means of gaining diplomatic leverage.

Paradoxically , however, due to the intensity of the emotional world, feelings can be very threatening to the Pluto-Moon type.

What was the incidence of life-threatening infant diseases prior to and during the time the program was operational?

All her patients close in around the glass-lined office. The inmates are now surrounding the office, threatening to break in.

He appealed for unity in the fight against drug cartels which he said were threatening to destroy Mexico's democratic institutions.

cried Hindley, threatening him with an iron weight used for weighing potatoes and hay.

People think if it doesn't require a prescription, it's got to be safe, and that's not true. There could be life-threatening effects.

But China seems to be raising the stakes threatening sanctions on US companies selling arms to Taiwan, including Boeing.

And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.

With Anakin suffering from life-threatening injuries, Ahsoka needs to find medical aid for him on an unfamiliar planet.

A state-run newspaper said he was found guilty of anti-government propaganda and threatening national security.

Bears that stand up on their hind legs are usually just trying to identify you, and are not threatening.

The environment does seem to have changed to a more gold-positive one, on the back of S&P threatening to downgrade the U. S. credit rating.

No matter what you have done or not done, no one deserves to be treated disrespectfully or in a threatening manner.

But the claim that the country was threatening to leave the euro seems to have been wrong, though it caused yet another market convulsion.

Rescuers said the injured were taken to a nearby part of the hospital, but fortunately the injury is not serious, not life threatening.

Experience of war in the trenches confirmed that the birds would keep trying to home despite life-threatening injuries.

For women, being stared at by groups of men is naturally to somewhat threatening.

The lake ws deserted as the sky began to darken, looking more threatening by the minute.

His neighbors, he said, are the ones threatening him, telling him regularly that he must leave after the World Cup or face the consequences.

Zo was experiencing the best years of his career until a life-threatening kidney ailment nearly ended his career and almost his life.

Is excessive exploitation of our resources threatening the lives of every species?

If only there were a sat nav for cyberspace this junction would not be the accident blackspot it is threatening to be.

various big donors are threatening to cut their contributions if Mr Fraser gets his way.

Acute epiglottitis can be a life-threatening disease with a fulminant course, affecting not only adults, but children as well.

Tianjin court sentenced two men to long jail terms for robbing a woman while threatening to stab her with an HIV-infected needle.

He no longer seems capable of intimidating the political establishment by threatening to unleash the fury of his media empire.

streetlights were flickering on at random, doorways and corners beginning to look threatening.

You wake up as a clothes shop assistant. Your customer's beer belly is threatening the life of a pair of trousers . You say.

Michael's threatening to put the beach house on the market, if I don't release my claim on the west side walk-up.

Studies show that the ice on the world's highest mountains is disappearing at a surprising speed, threatening to leave these peaks bare.

Chronic inflammation, however, can be a problem (as in arthritis) and acute inflammation in the form of toxic shock is life-threatening.

The measure was taken as the bank warned inflation was higher than expected, threatening prospects for economic growth.

It is true that this may not matter much inthe long run, since the capitalist way of life isnow threatening to destroythe planet altogether.

But perhaps a more threatening form of concentration in this dangerous industry is at the facility level.

UN official said the radiation reaching America is 'about a billion times' beneath health-threatening levels.

They had no other means of getting the truth from the young man but bu torturing and threatening.

Privately, he said his cancer surgery had created digestive problems but insisted they were not life-threatening.

There certainly is the fact of a worldwide policy response to what is viewed as an increasingly threatening situation.

And yet his mild public manner makes his policies seem less threatening than those of other conservatives to voters in the middle.

When newspapers reported this, he began getting messages threatening him with death.

But he points out that President Obama must walk a fine line: encouraging democratic change without threatening regime change.

The coach helps the team members get out of their individual comfort zones in non-threatening ways.

Some find it difficult to give up the behaviour despite realising that it could be life-threatening and is not rational.

Our nationally renowned faculty will present the state of the art management of these life threatening emergencies.

Showing feelings or crying (Heaven forbid! ) was just not done. So this was a very threatening assignment for some.

Humans, by contrast, have been the main architects of the enormous changes that are threatening to throw Earth out of whack.

"At this point, the injury has the potential for him missing this next season and could be career-threatening, " Clanton told the Chronicle.

Airport workers in Spain have voted to call off strike action threatening to paralyse the country's airports over the Easter holiday.

Now he was dead and everything was gone to the dogs, there was nothing but debt and threatening.

"There are a lot of misconceptions of what allergies are, " she added. "When you think of allergies, you don't think of life-threatening. "

And with inflation threatening to run out of control, citizens will need higher wages, too.

In severe cases, a life-threatening encephalitis can develop, which ends up in death or in irreversible neurological sequelae.

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is a bacterial infection of the lungs , which can be life-threatening if it is not treated promptly.

"One of our big findings was that 2 in 5 kids who had allergies had a severe reaction or a life-threatening reaction, " Gupta said.

Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication.

And symbolic caps on a few top executives, as the White House is threatening, are too feeble a response.

Like any good mother, ever since my son Eden was diagnosed with life-threatening food allergies, I've been trying to find out why.

Massive spending increases aren't pretty, but they're not as threatening to the United States as they would be to France or Germany.

The New Zealand navy has sent four ships to help break up an oil spill that's threatening one of the country's most spectacular coastlines.

Certainly, such a non-threatening image is of a piece with the panda.

At a time of international financial instability that is threatening the euro currency, and with the eyes of world markets on Italy, Mr.

His wife Anya was institutionalized in a sanitarium for 7 years after repeatedly threatening her husband and others with physical harm.

This marks the beginning of a love story that will be tested under the gravity of many life-threatening situations.

Breast cancer is one of the main causes threatening women's lives, which has not been improved in spite of widespread mass screening.

This name jumped after the man was rushed to hospital, the hospital said he had no life-threatening, but required surgery.

They found that the MRI was able to show how these women's brains responded to this handholding while in a threatening situation.

The virus attacks the immune system and leaves the body vulnerable to a variety of life-threatening infections and cancers.

We are reluctant to say that this delay is threatening the loss of our best customer.

Meals used to be the time when family members got together. But now fast food and quick meals are threatening such family get-together.

Often, abusive men step up their threatening and manipulative behavior right after their victims choose to leave.

Worth reminded that the best not to use jumping out of buildings to escape the jump to avoid life-threatening.

A friend of Mr. Bernanke likened him to a firefighter reluctantly suiting up to battle new troubles threatening the global financial system.

During the other boy's interrogation, one questioner repeatedly slams a clenched fist into his own palm in a threatening gesture.

But the big question is how China will face up to the deterioration of market conditions threatening in the important shipbuilding nations.

The bites became infected and deteriorated into a threatening case of blood poisoning.

Europe's increasing dependence on Russia for energy makes it harder for politicians to stand up to threatening behaviour from the east.

Usually he walked around threatening the sick men with a strait jacket which he always carried over his arm.

Generally speaking, anxiety is defined as a state of uneasiness and apprehension caused by the anticipation of something threatening.

It might have seemed different and, sometimes, economically threatening.

The right back is determined to leave Auxerre, threatening not return to the club for pre-season.

But health agencies say the side effects cannot expand into a life-threatening infection.

Refusing is one of the frequently used speech acts in daily life and also a face-threatening act to the face want of a refused.

A great deal of capital is flowing into the country, threatening the competitiveness of the alpine nation's export industry.

Rising ocean temperatures, one of the many effects of global warming, are threatening coral reefs around the world.

Even so, it is very easy to get into a business-life-threatening situation because of a big customer that goes broke.

"There is certainly the fact of a world-wide policy response to what is viewed as an increasingly threatening situation, " said Mike Mussa.

Ms Dai says the water table is dropping by a metre a year, threatening "geological disaster" .

The soldier drove the woodsman away, threatening him with dire consequences if he ever approached the maiden again.

Again, there was nothing threatening in the suggestion-but there was an apparent breach of etiquette.

On July 26, McLaren had to answer charges from the FIA that it had broken rules, threatening its title ambitions.

Some have formed huge glacial lakes at the foot of the glacier, threatening downstream communities in case of an outburst.

Any flu virus can be dangerous for a pregnant woman, but swine flu appears to be especially threatening.

Washington, for its part, continues to be dismayed by perceived EU flakiness over threatening problems on its own doorstep.

Unfortunately, word of the project reached the ears of Blue Cosmos and they had no intention of ignoring such a threatening discovery.

An unemployed man was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for threatening a woman with injury to her person with intent to alarm her .

" Hezekiah echoed the same sentiment about his life-threatening illness: " It was for my own good that I had such hard times.

Asset bubbles could be the next fragility as the world recovers, threatening again to destroy livelihoods and trap millions more in poverty.

Apparently, the critical legal issue is whether the parents knew it was a "life-threatening" condition (really, how could they not? ).

7 people injured in the fire were rushed to Beijing Chaoyang Hospital. Doctors said the injuries of the 7 were not life threatening.

When you attack your obstacles and do something about them, you'll find that they are not as threatening as they appeared to be at first.

I don't usually tell myself stuff ahead of time unless it's huge, life-threatening, you know?

The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it.

After all, it's harder to be happy when living with chronic pain or illness or when faced with a potentially life-threatening condition.

Stop threatening to leave town and I'll stop running.

One of the submarines was taken to Southampton General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The other died at the scene.

Deep dielectric charging and discharging effect is one of the key factors threatening satellites safety in space environment.

Our brains seem to know this and practice responding to threatening situations while we sleep.

Billions of dollars in infrastructure projects could be in jeopardy, builders say, threatening one of the world's largest programs.

Like her or not, Williams deserves much respect for playing at Wimbledon in the aftermath of a life-threatening illness.

The landlord keeps threatening to put us out on our feet.

These moves are putting further strains on an already-volatile oil market, threatening to send gasoline prices higher around the world.

The two injuries in themselves certainly aren't career threatening, but a combination of the two is a problem for the rehabilitation.

Such conflicts stand to be hugely destructive, threatening national security and the very existence of the state, it said.

The devastating earthquake has caused the yen to shoot up in value, threatening Japan's export sector.

He said that 'there's still fierce fighting in some areas' along with 'reports of regime elements threatening to continue fighting. '

Further, Qaddafi's successors might be much worse than he was in terms of mistreating Libyans and threatening American interests.

If snow is threatening, you may find yourself sharing a cable car with a farmer and his cows, as they take the easy way down.

Rick: No. But she's threatening to go back tomorrow if I don't say yes now.

Children in poor countries get diarrhoea on average four times per year. Each of these episodes can be life-threatening.

Anxiety is defined as a state of uneasiness and apprehension or fear caused by the anticipation of something threatening.

Near the eastern horizon, the sky turned a pearly gray, but to the northwest, clouds hung low and threatening.

In case of involvement of the upper airway and respiratory distress, the condition may be life-threatening.

Haile Gebrselassie, the men's marathon world record holder, is threatening not to run if conditions are not safe.

Mr. Bachman's wife, Barbara, sustained 'serious and life-threatening injuries, ' the U. S. Olympic Committee said in a statement.

"There's something behind it. People don't normally go around threatening people, " he said.

This fight-or-flight mechanism is still part of our survival kit today. It's there to protect us from threatening situations.

The staffer has been hospitalized with his hands 'severely' wounded but his condition isn't life-threatening, Mr. Regazzoni said.

Russian officials had been making life difficult for the Sakhalin project by threatening dire consequences for minor environmental lapses.

Nuclear weapons are not the only explosive force threatening civilization.

Recently, mental diseases are severely threatening the health of human beings with a noticeable increase in its incidence.

My landlord 's threatening to put the rent up by 10 a week.

'As a woman I'm not threatening. I could actually use it to my advantage.

Publicly, the IMF had been threatening to withhold its share of the money unless Greece's funding gap for 2012 is closed.

GvHD may be mild or life threatening, depending on the severity of reaction and the part of the body affected.

The Soyuz would serve as a "bail-out capsule" in case of a life-threatening emergency.

China and Brazil have reached agreement on a number of sanitary issues that had been threatening Brazil's soy exports to China.

So far, Apple has won support from book publishers for an iPad e-book store, threatening Amazon. com's leadership in e-books.

what ' s more , the ovule abortive events of the two species is evident , which may be one of the threatening factors.

Bush said he and Maliki agreed to seek ways to stem sectarian carnage threatening to split Iraq.

It also seems to force the liver to pump moreheart-threatening triglycerides into the bloodstream.

They asked everyone to freeze, threatening to shoot if anyone moves, " she said. "

The 8. 9 magnitude quake triggered a huge tsunami which has swept across the sea threatening countries all around the Pacific Ocean.

Threatening to destroy all that we have accomplished.

Across the region, millions have left to work abroad, sending wages soaring, threatening competitiveness and worrying investors.

The inflation rate of 11% is threatening to get out of control.

The company plans to dock the officers ' pay and is threatening disciplinary action .

No matter how giddily it is advertised, equality is always radical idea involving radical consequences by threatening an unequal status quo.

Open notes posted by him on the embassy's Facebook page have drawn threatening comments.

This young one stood in a characteristic threatening pose with mouth agape and allowed itself to be photographed with relative ease.

Thousands of postal workers will go on strike this Friday, threatening widespread disruption to mail services.

And just this year she was issued a restraining order for allegedly threatening to 'hunt down and kill' Laurel Wigg and her son.

But the perception that local protests might be gaining a broader national coherence is deeply threatening to China's Communist party.

Much of the 260 million tons of plastic the world uses every year winds up in the oceans, threatening marine life.

The Dhinese government is now pushing back, threatening not to renew Google's license as an Internet content provider.

I already had a sick feeling that it would the hostiles making demands and threatening or carrying out torture on the hostages.

Only what I've said, that it was autobiographical and possibly threatening to Harper's reputation.

Officials said the fire was threatening the archaeological site of Rhamnus, home to two 2, 500-year-old temples.

But he says there must be a "clear timetable " for talks about protecting their security without threatening other people's security.

Massa was also happy with a podium finish, on his first race since a life-threatening crash in Hungary last July.

but, with Uzbeks and Timurids threatening all around, it had its advantages.

In fact, all Jamal ever did was simply survive as life propelled him from one life threatening or life affirming experience to the next.

There is at least fragmentary evidence that in some places on this site there are life-threatening doses of radiation.

North Korea has been threatening to carry out a second nuclear test since last month.

Infections often lead to a life-threatening condition in which the body's immune defenses are systematically disabled.

Fortunately, for those unlucky enough to live in parts of the world where childbirth is routinely life-threatening, people do keep trying.

But while the sum is huge, it is not in and of itself threatening to the solvency of the Republic.

It's as if the roots know they must protected the tree from the threatening elements.

Charles Schumer, US senator from the state of New York, is threatening legislation to punish China for manipulating its currency.

He even worked for a while in a dirty and life-threatening Aluminum plant.

Primary liver carcinoma is one of the malignant tumors seriously threatening the health of mankind.

BACKGROUND: Calciphylaxis is a life-threatening form of metastatic calcification-induced microvascular occlusion syndrome.

As the old ruling circle has turned against him, even threatening him with imprisonment, he has boldly refused to bow out.

Like any other ruler, he had two enemies: internal disorder or treason and external Islamic agressors threatening his country.

Both viruses are also capable of causing retinitis and encephalitis (which can be life-threatening).

Thanks to global warming, these glaciers are receding, threatening the long-term water supplies for the region.

This particular Sino-American discrepancy is a small version of a much bigger dispute threatening the Copenhagen climate change talks.

The Toyoda Gosei manager said workers began threatening to strike a week or so ago.

And it will be simply impossible to stand through the trials of this threatening century with only the support of a legalistic structure.

Epileptic seizures is a serious chronic disease of the brain, during the onset of the emergence of consciousness due to life-threatening.

In the phase II study, the rate of life-threatening and fatal pulmonary hemorrhages had been increased with bevacizumab treatment (9. 1%).

move without being stable, as if threatening to fall.

Forcing money or other forms of personal or institutional benefit by threatening negative news coverage ( "news extortion" ).

The company's unions and suppliers had been threatening to petition for Saab's insolvency themselves because of unpaid wages and bills.

It's threatening to many men when a woman achieves more, or accomplishes more, or knows more than they do.

He swiftly concluded it was too big. Berkshire would have to borrow a lot of money, potentially threatening its coveted AAA credit rating.

Adam Gadahn, the American member of al-Qaeda, is threatening foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world.

If he sees any impropriety in politicians ordering executives about, upstaging the courts and threatening confiscation, he has not said so.

Did you get catch a head cold? At least it's only a temporary virus and nothing life-threatening.

The authoritarian Arab nationalist regimes that dominated the region used to accuse the Berbers of threatening national cohesion.

It isn't life threatening, but it certainly can be life hampering, as anyone who has a stutter can tell you.

The stated purpose is to stop speculators from "threatening the stability of the entire financial system" .

Conclusion: Although rare, the occurrence of sight-threatening bilateral keratitis following LASIK should not be overlooked.

Described how the terrorism has stepped to death. One person on board and was threatening to detonate a bomb.

The judge told the man to desist from threatening his wife.

Although there have been reports of rising sea levels threatening the islands, the sea level has actually lowered in recent decades.

I missed a credit payment last month. Now my bank account's overdrawn, and the company is threatening to take back my purchases.

Unsolicited advice from loved ones can be especially threatening, because of our strong desire to please those persons.

The police were soon unable to deal with the threatening crowd.

If you are a good corporate citizen Yammer would look a bit career-threatening - for reasons explained below.

a consensual approach to poppy eradication that does not drive farmers over to the Taliban by threatening their livelihoods.

Similar changes to habitats are also threatening Arctic species like polar bears, as the sea ice they dwell on gradually melts away.

U. S. lawmakers are threatening to impose penalties or tariffs on China if it doesn't let the yuan continue to climb.

You could even take a cell from an endangered animal and, without threatening its extinction, make meat from it.

Your customer's beer belly is threatening the life of a pair of trousers.

The fighting is threatening to turn into a war.

Senator Chuck Schumer is threatening, as he did in 2005, to whack Chinese exports with duties if the yuan isn't appreciated soon.