Police Captain Haralambos Sfetsos told the AP news agency that the workers had "moved threateningly" towards foremen when the shots were taken.

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My father did not stop at any of the police checkpoints on the road, and, once, a policeman gestured threateningly with his gun as we sped past.

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"A day after we talked, he called to thank me for some travel suggestions I'd given him, " she recalls of the boy, who was dressed threateningly in gangsta-rapper clothes.

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He has mobilized his armed forces threateningly against Jordan.

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Beyond it, said Mr Ornstein threateningly, was chaos.

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But it does not seem threateningly radical.

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The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.

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