Sentences with phrase «veiled threats»

«Some of the emails make thinly veiled threats of violence against me and even my family, and law enforcement authorities have been made aware of the matter,» he told the Guardian.

Many climate scientists have received hundreds, and probably now even thousands of threatening emails... attacking us, or using very nasty language to criticize us... Some emails, letters, and phone messages that have been left on my office phone contain thinly veiled threats of violence, death threats.

The tussling over the arena, during which Katz made veiled threats about moving the Oilers from Edmonton three different times, has damaged his reputation with fans.

And now Priti Vacant was making not - so - veiled threats about all the damage she could inflict on the government from the backbenches.

Once a prominent investigative journalist, his career has very publicly crashed and burned after he made outrageous accusations and a not - so - veiled threat against the elusive cult filmmaker Stanislas Cordova.

Other conference observers in contact with people in that session disputed the story's characterizations of the discussion as a verbal brawl or containing veiled threats, noting that Kerry's statements — separate from the characterizations — were consistent with his message since he arrived at the talks.

He issued veiled threats by saying that Soon ought to talk to him, because Soon's employer «may be preparing to take adverse personnel action against» him.

Most religions are nothing but mythology, wrapped in text, painted with veiled threats, and for one reason... to keep the masses in line.

Well, Eartha certainly fulfills her part of the Sugar relationship with Santa, not only with her panther - like purr (she did play Catwoman on the»60s Batman TV show, after all) but also with her assertions of fidelity to her Daddy, maybe with a little bit of veiled threat at the end:

«The oil companies have really positioned this almost as a thinly veiled threat in that if you don't support the pipeline, it's going to come through rail anyway,» says Steve Mossop, president of pollster Insights West.

Veiled threats from a religious moron.

Women are being victimised again by veiled threats that someone knows something about their past.

«I'm sick and tired of the anonymous phone calls, the push - polling, the half - truths and the thinly - veiled threats directed at my supporters,» Liedka said in a press release.

Again, sense veiled threats or trying to spark fear and there just ani» t no chickens roosting in America.

Cameron made his thinly veiled threat on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, when he said he was «entitled» and «enabled» to seek a repatriation of powers when other EU countries sought treaty change to make the single currency work more effectively.

Orange County officials faced down tears, insults and barely veiled threats of bloodshed last fall when they rewrote the animal - control ordinance.

Emails contained «veiled threats against my wife,» and other «tangible threats,» Emanuel, a highly - regarded atmospheric scientist and director of M.I.T.'s Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate program, said in an interview.

But with your husband's veiled threats about kidnapping your daughter, and the fact that he feels he can just «pop in» to her life whenever he wants, you absolutely need legal advice.

But the domestic scandal over tax avoidance — the outraged bluster of Margaret Hodge's mock trial of the Great Avoiders before the UK Public Accounts Committee; David Cameron's barely - veiled threat at Davos to corporations who needed to «wake up and smell the coffee»; UK Uncut's shop - floor protests — has done little damage to its targets.

Liedka said he had been hoping to run a positive campaign but feels the need to respond to «anonymous phone calls, the push - polling, the half - truths and the thinly - veiled threats directed at my supporters,» adding: «I'm nobody's punching bag.»

Back in 2009, Van Roekel, stating that «opposition to vouchers is a top priority for NEA,» wrote every Democratic member of Congress with thinly veiled threats, warning them not to support the popular D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.

The notion that the president might have taped conversations first arose three day's after Comey's abrupt departure, when the president tweeted what seemed like a veiled threat suggesting that he might have done so.

A person close to the government's side told Reuters that the Justice Department does not intend to press the argument that it could seize the company's code, and someone on Apple's side said the company isn't worried enough to counter the veiled threat in its brief due Tuesday.

Speaking on Bloomberg TV, he also trotted out all kinds of more or less vague and veiled threats - such as, «We will take all measures necessary,» or «We'll see what we're doing next» - perhaps having forgotten that China and Hong Kong combined export three times as much to the US as the other way around, and the pain of a trade war would be magnified by three on the Chinese side.

First, simply because the president - elect does not like United Technologies» business decisions does not justify his issuing of veiled threats to blackball the company for actions that are perfectly legal, and this constitutes an unwarranted exercise of government power.

In the same case, then — Compuware CEO Bob Paul testified that in a follow - up phone call, Cohn dropped a «veiled threat» that he knew Paul kept an Aston Martin in his garage, saying, «By the way, love that English car you're driving.»

In its statement on Friday it made a veiled threat: «Based on our engagement conversations and our long - term view of the company, we may vote against specific directors or we may vote against management on shareholder proposals.»

Success is «the best revenge that Bezos can get against the administration for its veiled threats about sales taxes and not paying its fair share,» said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter told Reuters on Wednesday.

Here come the veiled threats from those loving Christians.

As to your veiled threats, I could give a good god damn about them and who the hell are you to judge me, is that not up to your mythical god?

Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a church should be run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»

Veiled threats, which were obvious with the repeated «Does the Vineyard know what you are doing?»

Furthermore, this is nothing more than thinly veiled threats, if you need to result in trying to peddle fear, the likelihood that you have anything worthwhile to say is slim to none.

Khalid Latif's veiled threats of violence in a letter to NYU's President if he were to allow a student organization to display Danish cartoons of Muhammad is evidence that he is no fan of freedom of speech and believes in defending sharia law's blasphemy statute (for lack of a better word).

Veiled threats with no evidence and the «believe or else» crap may have worked before, but that kind of immoral idiocy has been exposed.

What audacity he has to go on national television and put forward a veiled threat to the US?

Who is he to come to this country and pose a veiled threat?

I take it as a veiled threat that their god will send those that displease him, or don't believe in him to hell.