Similarly, if you want to avoid threatening someone else, keep your eyes lowered and your head down.

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Mr Philpott told his friends, "Sorry guys someone is threatening to torch the house with the kids in it", Mr Latham told the court.

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And so this line captures the character of Nucky Thompson, it echoes a truth that Nucky realizes about himself when at the end of season two he kills someone who has been threatening his business.

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Or, if you get wind that someone is about to publish something threatening your gravy train, maybe you can cajole the editor to keep it out of print for a year while you prepare a counter-manuscript.

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If someone tries to blackmail a software company by threatening to expose a bug then let them sue, but saying that full details can only be given to trusted insiders is surely not acceptable.

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Arne Duncan championed Race to the Top, a truly radical approach in the world of education, an approach that is quite threatening to many traditional viewpoints on education but he did with the credibility of someone who compromises.

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