Once again events threatened to outstrip her ability to comprehend them.

As in so many other scenes, when events threaten to become too emotional, Wilder ends this scene with a touch of humor.

Such events have threatened to erase life, but succeeded only in partly clearing the stage for new and different families.

By early 1984, events threatened to upset the American-Iraqi relationship.

Death was a long way off, and she could make a good fight of it if events threatened her tenure or Jim's.

No longer will I hold on to my lifelong belief that events in the world around me threaten my personal identity.

Yet such events constantly threaten to infiltrate a school.

The catastrophic event threatens to engulf the entire world in ice.

A game in which unprecedented events take a different turn, a turn for the worst and threaten their very existence.

In 1997, the event threatened to be a washout due to unseasonably bad weather.