Sentences with phrase «with veiled threats»

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

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?»

Clarke's New Statesman piece ended with a veiled threat, but it was pretty clear unveiled in his Today programme interview this morning.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

Unfortunately, concerning bedsharing, many health - county - regional - state - professionals apparently think all parents are equally unable to make reasonable judgments for themselves as regards whether they are able or not to bedshare safely, to weigh the relative risks and benefits, and that therefore, it must be done for them, and with as much legal authority and veiled threats as they can present.

Everything turned on her line «no deal is better than a bad deal», coupled with the not - at - all - veiled threat that the UK will become a super low tax tiger economy if we don't get what we want.

He accused the Cuomo campaign of using «threats and intimidation» to prevent rabbis from meeting with Paladino — even going so far as to make veiled suggestions that public funding might be in jeopardy, although no proof of this claim was provided.

In something of a veiled threat to Cuomo, Skelos pointed out that the Legislature has investigative committees with subpoena power that can look into the executive branch.

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:

Furthermore, he concluded by leveling this thinly - veiled threat, «I can make your lives disappear with a stroke of my pen.»

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.

Just keep firing away with e-mails, calls and veiled threats until your info is available.

They came with a thinly veiled threat — the regulator also announced it renewed the licences of most providers for just one year, rather than the usual seven.

Veils over industrial armature, by Elaine Cameron - Weir with JTT, make beauty a threat.

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.

It also suggested that it took the assessor's suggestion that it would seek an increase in the assessment as a thinly veiled threat to discourage the owner from continuing with its appeal.

Thus for example, in Germany, in 2015, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a ban on teachers wearing Islamic veils at schools was not compatible with religious freedom and that veils did not pose a threat to the school's learning environment.

You might wish to read CREA's dispatch that covers this topic as brought up by them to the CB and note the CB's muted silence (undoubtedly because of dealing with one issue at a time) and even the veiled threat contained therein.