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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.
Despite their often misunderstood appearance, these were teens to be immensely proud of, not menaced by or feared.
A survey by the women's federation covering 384 families found that around 250 wives were being menaced, insulted or cursed by their husbands.
Influenced by anxiety about the future, every faction across the political spectrum found something to feel menaced by.
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.
A few months later that system collapsed, to the immense benefit of everyone living under or menaced by it.
General Vandamme was heard to shout that they would be masters at Tombigbee and menaced them with his sword and the threat of drowning.
The very kernel of our identity is menaced by the prospect of genetic engineering of the human germline.
From beneath his cloak, their follower drew a rusting corsair sabre and menaced the horse with it.
Without the crutch of music, self-doubt menaced him, and he was a reluctant public communicator.
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.
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.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to address the global threat of terrorism with which our nation and many others are menaced.
These constitute enrichment: I am enriched, not menaced, by the differences in you.
How often are you ill because you think you are, because you believe every step dogged by fate or menaced by pain?
Members of Pardia have sometimes been menaced and intimidated by phone calls.
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.
The co-ordination of all these activities offers a vast range of assistance to any country menaced with attack or natural disaster.
The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the Government under which we live, is this very thing.
A senior police officer had menaced to torture the kidnapper of a child in an attempt to find the victim.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Neither did the blot with which the birth of my grandfather was menaced affect me much.
They felt that their supremacy was menaced, and largely by his instrumentality.
Surprised and menaced by the Thermidorian reaction, he denounced its partisans to the Jacobin club.
This done, he planted himself in front of the panel, and with a petronel in each hand, menaced his opponents.
He took his position on the frontier menaced by the Neapolitan army, and fortified the stronghold of Rieti.
Posnania was menaced by an agrarian strike, but a settlement has been reached.
The perfection of the air brake removed one great source of danger that menaced the crews of freight trains.
Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.
Again and again, there seemed to be no possible escape from the destruction which imminently menaced them.
I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion.
The attitude in which he rested his menaced eyes was profoundly meditative.
She would have urged him gently, even then, but he menaced her with his chain.
He ordered the two men to come up on board and menaced them with his revolver.
Little by little there came to him the unexplained intuition of a danger that menaced him.
When they were 'neath the kirk,' he issued from the wood and menaced their further progress.
For the moment, however, Germany was neither attacked nor menaced.
He advises an inquirer what to do when menaced by religious persecutions.
He finally doesn't like and can't bear it, in the sense, I mean, that his wrath, his menaced interest, now balances with his dread.
Internal peace has not been menaced during General Roca's term.
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