The companies say the government's efforts to gain access to low-cost generic drugs threaten existing patent rights.

Their aggressive efforts threatened to push the Cardinals into a recently unfamiliar position on the payroll scale.

Some of those involved acknowledged that the effort could threaten the airline's survival.

Eastern's pilots, involved in a labor dispute, say the carrier's efforts to reduce costs threaten to impair safety.

My voice scarce sounded human, and the effort of raising it threatened to tear my swollen throat.

The sheer effort of holding her breath for each inundation threatened to finish her.

Though the effort threatened to burst his eyeballs, he spoke so that the First would hear him and understand.

The law has generated a backlash across the state, in which an effort to stop corruption is threatening to stop government instead.

The party's assertive efforts to speed up land reform provoked existing landowners and threatened the social position of Islamic clerics.

His efforts threaten to complicate further the relations between the two countries.