Sentences with phrase «threatened with violence»

«Competing agents have threatened us with violence, intimidated our customers and tried to block their offers,» Redfin chief executive Glenn Kelman said in testimony before Congress in 2006.

«Competing agents have threatened us with violence, intimidated our customers and tried to block their offers,» Kelman testified before Congress in 2006, the year Redfin launched in Seattle and California's Bay Area.

He talked about students being threatened with violence in recent days, and said he hopes law enforcement agencies are investigating those threats to prevent further trauma.

They have been forced to work as guides and been threatened with violence.

Ethiopia is certainly better for Teo, who is not threatened with violence or prejudice because of the color of his skin, but it's not an easy place for outspoken Em, since «it was a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania.»

The number of principals who have been threatened with violence by parents increased from 19 per cent in 2011 to 25 per cent in 2014; and violent threats made by students increased from 17 per cent to 24 per cent over the same period.

The latest Principal Health and Wellbeing Survey revealed one in four Australian school leaders have been threatened with violence by parents.

Alex Gibney tells TheWrap former churchgoers have been threatened with violence and economic ruin after participating in the film

Skylar Grey speaks to XXL about her co-production and co-writing work on Eminem's latest track, Walk on Water, featuring Beyoncé, as the rapper heads into Skylar Grey, a frequent Eminem collaborator, was granted a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband, who she claims threatened her with violence

I was hounded by elected officials, threatened with violence and more — after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere's average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years.

The investigator, Manuel Gomez, has video footage appearing to show the victim of the shooting, Shawn Nardoni, saying he was falsely arrested and threatened with violence by a police officer who wanted him to identify Hernandez as the shooter.

I have been threatened with violence for my reporting on a senior New Rochelle City Court employee.

In Caltex's case it had an added twist, with stories emerging of workers threatened with violence and in one case sending hit men to visit their family in Pakistan to guarantee their silence.

It was compiled by campaigners, who say the missing girl's parents - and even her siblings - have been threatened with violence.

That is, if one's interlocutor is being threatened with violence, torture, or death at the same time as he is being confronted with a polemical argument, and if the outcome of the latter determines whether he is killed, tortured, forcibly converted, or whatever (this was, of course, the case for many Jews in medieval Europe), then it is exceedingly doubtful that the polemic is morally proper.

Because girls like Malala Yousafzai deserve an education and should not be threatened with violence for pursuing one.

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

@Keith: How Christian of you to insult those who are different from you, and then threaten them with violence.

Forcing you to love you while He threatens you with violence.

But he certainly would understand if others were to threaten him with violence or incarceration if he failed to comply with their demands.

The friend / interpreter called her brother who threaten me with violence.

The director isn't naïve enough to portray Ronnie as simply the harmless victim of a McCarthyesque witch hunt being run by guilt - wracked Larry (Noah Emmerich), providing the pariah with a date scene in which he ends the night by jerking off in the woman's car and then threatening her with violence if she dares mention what's occurred.

Inside, the boy meets the gang, whose members threaten him with violence if he touches her.

Normally, they will prevent your ex-partner from harassing you and threatening you with violence.

Not exact matches

Criminals who use or threaten violence are punished with both jail terms and flogging.

«In fact there was no evidence presented that since his brother's arrest, Mr. Zachary Cruz has threatened anyone, has ever exhibited or shown violence toward anyone, or that he has been seen by anyone with a weapon.»

We stand with these teens even from across the country, because this problem — gun violence — is not confined to one school, student, or state, it threatens every young person living in America.

I have been threatened with my life and did not return with violence.

As far as «skewed» Christian values go I'm reminded of the scene in Bill Maher's «Religulous» where the Christian trucker actually seems to be threatening Bill with violence for being critical.

A Christian would never speak with malice and threaten violence, Yeshua doesn't know you.

The Church should be so invested in the lives of others, especially the «least of these» in society, that when someone exhibits unstable behavior or are threatened by violence, they are surrounded with biblical love and ensured the help they need.

I understand and share your concern with the violence and hatred that are threatening not only Middle - Eastern nations but the entire world.

They are concerned with living a faith threatened by the inhuman forces released by the globalization of information, technology, economies and violence.

Have I ever threatened anyone with violence for anything?

I don't know if this will change anyone's mind, probably won't, but for me, I at least want to call out hypocrisy among other fans and the laziness of trotting out the narrative when I can still vividly remember Cincinatti fans throwing beer bottle at officials, remember 49ers fans forming a «Ring» around my wife and me and threatening us with physical violence (never mind the assault of the Dodgers fan by Giants fans).

@CoachJim4UM Does this mean you are threatening journalists with physical violence if they ask a question you don't like?

For this decision, I have been threatened with death and sexual violence by strangers.

• A 19 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with domestic assault and interfering with a report of domestic violence after threatening another person in a home on the 15200 block of 82nd Avenue on Aug. 22.

Some are self - evident: threatening someone with violence, harassment and breaching court orders.

A top official at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who was found to have threatened female employees with physical violence and engaged in years of sexual harassment, racism and ageism was not disciplined by the agency, which instead punished two women who provided testimony about the case to the state IG's office.

And while it's an uphill battle facing a heavily entrenched foe, outreach efforts will give Staten Island and Brooklyn voters — both old and new — food for thought the next time they go to the polls: ranging from alleged campaign finance fraud; to Grimm's threatening of a reporter with physical violence; to his latest federal fraud and tax charges, he is quite a colorful character with a very colorful history just begging to be lampooned.

The violence in Libya for instance, directly threatened the energy security of the members of the Alliance due to the interruption of supply of European refineries with light sweet crude oil and the supply of natural gas to pipelines to Italy.

Of course this did not justify threatening Rushdie with violence or even banning his book, but what I found interesting was the fact that in the course of the controversy his Muslim critics managed to forcibly insert themselves into the exclusive conversation he had set up with their religion as its subject.

Call it bullying, intimidation, threatening behavior backed up if necessary with physical fucking violence.

Grimm also made headlines for threatening a NY1 reporter, Michael Scotto, with physical violence in 2014, saying he would throw Scotto off a balcony and break him in half while they spoke at the Capitol in Washington.

«He even sent him a text which said: «They are threatening her with physical violence and I can't say I blame them.»

Cuomo says most of the worst mass shootings in the nation's history involved gunmen with a record of violence against women or threatening violence against women, including those committed this year at a country music concert in Las Vegas and inside a Texas church.

Wood noted that the younger Skelos had openly threatened the victims of the Skelos duo's schemes with violence, including at one point telling his manager at the insurance firm he was ostensibly working for that he would «smash your fucking head in» if the manager continued to pester him about showing up for work.

«We challenge the GOC to come up with a single occasion when the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of his Eminence Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky ever threatened the peace and stability of Nigeria or engaged in any form of violence throughout its 38 years of existence.»

Guards were found to have pressured inmates not to seek medical help for these injuries and threatened them with further violence if they did.