In High Noon, Gary Cooper's loyalty is not to himself but to his town, which is menaced by the gunman who will arrive on the noon train. |
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Despite their often misunderstood appearance, these were teens to be immensely proud of, not menaced by or feared. |
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A survey by the women's federation covering 384 families found that around 250 wives were being menaced, insulted or cursed by their husbands. |
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Influenced by anxiety about the future, every faction across the political spectrum found something to feel menaced by. |
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But by far the most ludicrous begging episode happened in Dundee, where I was menaced by that little-known phenomenon, the pre-teen bike gang. |
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A few months later that system collapsed, to the immense benefit of everyone living under or menaced by it. |
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General Vandamme was heard to shout that they would be masters at Tombigbee and menaced them with his sword and the threat of drowning. |
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The very kernel of our identity is menaced by the prospect of genetic engineering of the human germline. |
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From beneath his cloak, their follower drew a rusting corsair sabre and menaced the horse with it. |
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Without the crutch of music, self-doubt menaced him, and he was a reluctant public communicator. |
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A nearby shopkeeper who tried to stop the robber was also menaced with the gun as he tried to force the getaway car door open. |
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The isolation quickly got to Yates, and he was transformed from a relatively normal young man into a drunken monster that constantly menaced his young partner. |
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to address the global threat of terrorism with which our nation and many others are menaced. |
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These constitute enrichment: I am enriched, not menaced, by the differences in you. |
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How often are you ill because you think you are, because you believe every step dogged by fate or menaced by pain? |
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Members of Pardia have sometimes been menaced and intimidated by phone calls. |
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Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of accusations, French cricket and sausages. |
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The co-ordination of all these activities offers a vast range of assistance to any country menaced with attack or natural disaster. |
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The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the Government under which we live, is this very thing. |
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A senior police officer had menaced to torture the kidnapper of a child in an attempt to find the victim. |
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In both Denmark and Sweden, the government is being menaced by opposition parties that want lower taxes and a slimmer welfare state. |
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McDonagh menaced him into believing he was in danger of being attacked. |
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The last time a major hurricane menaced the Texas coast, in 2005, everyone tried to leave at once. |
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As long as populations are menaced by banditism, civil war, guerrilla campaigns and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be safe and secure. |
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On 2 October, Ossetian militiamen entered the village of Kere, where they menaced the local population with machine guns and burned one house. |
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As long as populations are menaced by banditry, civil war, guerrilla campaigns, and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be secure. |
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After 20 years, she remains best known for her first big break, as a babysitter menaced by knife-wielding maniac, Michael Myers, in the slasher film Halloween. |
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On their own, they are just two small, poor regions, menaced by population decline and weakened by the disappearance of their heavy industries. |
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If you were being menaced by a bug-eyed monster but lacked a phaser or psionic powers, your last hope might be a shuttle-craft to get you off-world. |
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Which parent in Central Park, young child in tow, has not been menaced out of his wits by speeding bicyclists? |
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If menaced with an attack, the divisions at the head and tail of the convoy will keep their positions and repel the enemy by their fire should he attack. |
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Though this approach was successful, the sheer numbers of the Aztecs still menaced to overwhelm the Castilians. |
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Initiates were menaced by fake branding irons, electrocuted by teeter-totters, ambushed by collapsing chairs. |
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They believe the blame for Carole's psychological downfall lies with credulous, satanist-obsessed therapists who went along with her claims that she'd been sexually menaced. |
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Terrorists used the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad which showed prisoners stacked in naked heaps and menaced by dogs as a recruiting tool. |
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Only if the survival of the species itself were menaced, or in the case of an unexpected outbreak of a life-threatening or debilitating disease in human beings, could permission to use them be granted. |
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Freedom is menaced, and education for freedom is urgently needed. |
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For two days and nights artillery explosions tore the forest and fields close to their village, and her son pleaded with her to take him away to a place without shelling and the fighter jets that menaced above. |
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The fact that many cultural heritage sites are still menaced by all kinds of dangers should not lead us to overlook the growing threats to the environment. |
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This fact obliges us to study new scenarios in which the practice of journalism and the enjoyment of various basic rights, are menaced by forces beyond the control of the state, such as organized crime and drug trafficking. |
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These are also menaced by a long list of pests. |
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Phone threats of death menaced me, my wife, and my children. |
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The large pit bull terrier had menaced him and his mother before, and had once bitten the latter. |
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We don't wonder at her dubious expression, menaced as she is by a descending battalion of silver phalluses we recognize as fuel rods. |
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Instead of satiation Hitler menaced Poland, and at last Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dropped appeasement and stood firm in promising to defend Poland. |
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