Often the ice threatened to close in upon us.Sometimes the growling of the pack churned and crackled only a quarter of a mile out.…Cited from Bog-Myrtle and Peat, by S.R. Crockett
The Bohemian Hall keeps the people linked, visually and materially, to the past.Revenue was so low in the early 1990s that the hall threatened to close.A large group of people, not all Czech, started a "Save the Hall" meeting.…
Their leader declared loudly that he would kill Krishnan and "cut her into pieces".He also threatened to close all her other centers.…
At one point he accused them of assisting brigands in his own country and illegally purchasing free people as slaves.He also threatened to close the trade altogether.However, in the end, Afonso established an examination committee to determine the legality of all enslaved persons presented for sale.…
Principal Genco was concerned that not all of the building's modernization were complete.She and the SCA held a meeting and the agency threatened to close the school down.…
They also threatened to close the Avoriaz stage of the Tour de France cycle race.
Aircraft would be permitted to use only at those fields which had a rating indicating it was safe for them, and air traffic volumes would be limited at fields with lower ratings.The rules threatened to close Washington-Hoover, or permit its use for local traffic only.In early September, the War Department agreed to allow planes to land at Bolling Field in an emergency.…
Dynegy's bankruptcy also left $17 million in unpaid property taxes in Dutchess County, New York.This created a budget crisis in the county which threatened to close local schools and create severe cutbacks in county services.…
The storm also threatened to close the Avoriaz stage of the Tour de France cycle race.
The city's once extensive library system has been beleaguered by financial difficulties.In 2010, it threatened to close but was incorporated by the county library system.Nonetheless, the main branch did close in February 2011.…
"Remember how Joe threatened to close the last chapter?"Cited from Then I'll Come Back to You, by Larry Evans
The factory was founded in 1967 by the former Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (DAF), and continued after the takeover of its parent by Volvo in 1972-1975.When financial difficulties threatened to close it down in the early 1990s the government stepped in to ensure its survival.…
By 1907, the St. Mary's was replaced by the gunboat Newport, a sail-steam hybrid.In 1913, New York City threatened to close the school due to its costs.However, the state of New York took over its management and renamed it the New York State Nautical School.…
The Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which owned the Simba centre, ordered the school to leave.In addition the Department for Education and Employment threatened to close the school if it did not register with the department.NOI supporters protested the proposed expulsion and the proposed closure.…
In 1900, during a tax dispute with the village, he barred the board from meeting there.He had also threatened to close the firehouse if his estranged son, who had been elected village president, was allowed in the building.Seven years later, upon his death, the lease passed to a local orphanage he had founded.…
He was full of repentance for his reckless conduct; he was in a state of depression which defied rousing; he despaired of himself and his future.Sometimes he talked of going back to America; and sometimes he threatened to close his career by enlisting as a private soldier.Would any other person, in my place, have seen which way these signs pointed?…Cited from Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins
When the management threatened to close down the club, the players relented and backed down, but after only one match they went back on strike.
Riverview has a small population of students (300) and has recently threatened to close.
These blasts wounded two in Sukhumi and six in Gagra.Abkhazia threatened to close off border with Georgia in response to the bombing.Georgia's foreign minister, Eka Tkeshelashvili, said on 15 May 2008 that Georgia would regard any increase in Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia as a "gross encroachment on Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity".…
There was also a new space called the Nectar Temple, comprising visionary and performance arts.The festival was hit by severe flooding that threatened to close the festival; local roads and villages were flooded and closed.The Overkill tent was initially cancelled on the first day of the festival due to the stage being submerged under 2 ft of water.…
