Sentences with phrase «idle threat»

A steady business leader doesn't make idle threats.
Don't make idle threats or keep repeating the warning over and over.
Ott had made a lot of idle threats in my direction before, but one of these days, he was bound to deliver, if only to get rid of the feeling that he was repeating himself.
After six years of idle threats that are never followed through, I've forfeited the ability to scare her.
As his name implies, Chomper doesn't make idle threats.
«I sort of laughed it off because I figured cooler heads in Washington would prevail, and it was just an idle threat,» he said.
That is no idle threat in a province that saw a decade - long War in the Woods over logging of old growth forests, which ended with new government regulations.
Empty, idle threats?
«We will bury you» is no idle threat from elderly women to elderly men,
If you're comments went beyond making an idle threat, it's important to do some serious damage control.
The Minister of Health at the time, Dr Timothy Stamps, labelled this as «economic blackmail» and an «idle threat».
But nor are they making idle threats.
The Chinese are the only exception and here it seems a bit of an idle threat or propaganda.
Mayor Bill de Blasio coolly dismissed that declaration as an idle threat, and maintained that the NYPD and Department of Corrections would continue ignoring federal requests that they hold undocumented individuals in custody unless the person in question has committed certain violent crimes.
It is important to note that the County Executive does not possess the authority to take such action without approval of the Legislature and the Minority Caucus will not give credibility to idle threats and will not support any gimmickry by the administration that will impact programs and services.
The Telegraph has said Johnson must learn not to make «idle threats».
«I don't see it as an idle threat,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the powerful New York State United Teachers union that has won far more battles than it's lost in Albany for its 600,000 - plus members.
Starring Owen Wilson (Lightning McQueen), Larry the Cable Guy (Mater), Steve Purcell (Sandy Dunes), John Cygan (Idle Threat), Jess Harnell (Blue Grit), Bonnie Hunt (Sally Carrera), Cheech Marin (Ramone) and Danny Mann (Shifty Sidewinder).
(«I'll kill «im,» he says at one point, the frightening indifference in his voice leaving uncertain if — or how — he plans to act on that idle threat.)
This is no idle threat.
The central recommendations contradicted prevailing post-Columbine behavior [which was «zero tolerance,» «every idle threat... treated like a cocked gun.
(Don't consider this an idle threat.
It wasn't an idle threat.
Yeah, so that's the idle threat Jack Krauser sends your way when you finally confront him for the last piece of the gate key leading to Ashley.
We slapped a thick stack of your questions on the table, cracked our knuckles, and extracted the answers via a combination of brow beating, idle threats, and good old - fashioned seduction.
But not in Utah, RMP's idle threats of higher solar rates has stunted the growth of Utah's solar industry to 12 % in the first six months of 2017.
That we face a world - wide crisis is no idle threat.
Whether this was about rejecting their demands to use a dumbed down «feature» phone or the idle threat that I would not be supported in future.
Everyone knows that an idle threat derails an approach at disciplining your child.
Never make idle threats or false promises when negotiating with agents, and agents should also never do this in a transaction.
This was not an idle threat — in the early 1980s, four of the province's largest real estate companies pulled out of the Montreal board and set up their own listing distribution service.
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