In the first act, lives are being changed and threatened.

His life was threatened during the course of Day 1.

The men whose lives he had threatened were standing ready for him.

Someone has threatened your life, and I want to know everything.

The real question was whether threatening his life would force him to help me.

My life wasn't threatened, but it was difficult from what I've had to deal with in the past.

Once your life is threatened, what else do you have to lose?

He'd never taken it off until his life was threatened.

His life was just threatened and he didn't know what to do about it.

Indeed, I have heard my father say that he sometimes threatened his life.