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"idle threat" Definitions
  1. a threat that a person does not really mean to follow through with

38 Sentences With "idle threat"

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His emergence should not be dismissed as an idle threat.
Time Magazine's Molly Ball says it's more than an idle threat.
Chinese officials say they do not dismiss anything as an idle threat.
If this were only in the idle threat category Moscow's demands would not matter.
His is no idle threat, he asserted: If Mr. Sanders loses, they're packing their bags.
He's even made a documentary, "Idle Threat: A Man on Emission" which chronicled his efforts.
No one likes to hear even an idle threat and he sounded like he meant business.
He also resurrects three entries: IDLE THREAT, DEFLEA (one of the few gluey entries, with FOR ALL) and FOREARM.
It didn't sound like an idle threat — in 2015, Trump ejected Univision's Jorge Ramos from a rally for being similarly persistent.
Mr. Johnstone radiates a dangerous hunger for vengeance — and a soldierly virility — that make his actions more than an idle threat.
"It can be an idle threat or it can be the next mass shooter that you're stopping," Ms. Bull said. video
One thing we learned from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is that Trump's desire to prosecute Clinton was not an idle threat.
Even the boldest farmers hurried home before nightfall, lest some dire spirit overtake them, and the Devil was more than an idle threat.
Given the United States&apos sheer economic heft, this is no idle threat; indeed, Russia has long labeled CAATSA as a tool of unfair competition.
A spokesperson for the company pointed out that it's not an idle threat if Uber can't get enough drivers in a city because of local rules.
In Mr. Trump's case, it may just be an idle threat, the sort of bluster that he has regularly used to keep perceived adversaries off balance.
Since several of them, such as William E. Borah of Idaho and Hiram Johnson of California, were notorious for their insurgency, this was no idle threat.
It is no idle threat, in a country that by some accounts supplies the world's highest per-capita number of foreign fighters to extremist outfits in Syria and Iraq.
Mr. Pakenham made a 64-minute documentary in 2012 called "Idle Threat," where he illustrated the health risks associated with idling vehicles and politely confronted motorists he caught in the act.
"I threaten them that I'm going to buy an apartment near their campus and visit and sit in their classes, but that's an idle threat," she joked with Entertainment Tonight last May.
In a country where civil war has raged for more than 50 years, in which guerrilla separatists and state sanctioned paramilitaries have been accused of horrific war crimes, this is no idle threat.
The prospect of a trade war is not an idle threat to producers of corn syrup, who have sold more than $3 billion of the sweetener to Mexico over the past five years.
Hisham al-Hashemi, who advises the Iraqi government on Islamic State issues and has visited the frontlines, said all the indications from Mosul so far showed that Baghdadi's comments were no idle threat.
This is not an idle threat: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert got wrapped up in a bribery scandal during his time in office in the late 2000s and eventually served over a year in prison.
But the tools authorities have are limited, and there's often no way to distinguish who may be an attacker and who is making an idle threat -- if authorities are even able to identify the potential actor.
Given that Congress forced Trump's hand by passing sanctions on Russia to punish 2016 election interference -- that the President had no choice but to implement because of their veto-proof majorities -- McConnell was making no idle threat.
They have said that employers will cut base pay if forced to pay overtime, but that appears to be an idle threat, since pay cuts would be deeply unpopular with workers and would very likely create more turnover.
Kim has said it was targeting the island before, including in 2013, but many did not assume the most recent warning was an idle threat: Just a month ago, Pyongyang successfully tested a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead.
But the conspicuously nonangry candidate is now enjoying a wave of attention in New Hampshire, with some polls showing him gaining strength here, several newspapers in the state endorsing him and, in a sure sign that he is no longer an idle threat, a new attack ad directed at him.
He has produced a children's book devoted to the subject, " Big Nose, Big City ," and also a documentary, " Idle Threat ," which has screened in Nevada City, California, and at Westfield High School, in New Jersey, where he was, as he recalls, "treated regally," as a member of the class of '68.
"If there's no way to be able to verify it and go back and check it, then you have to figure out, is that legit, is it not legit, is there a real threat to the legitimacy of the election based on some idle threat that's put out there online," Lankford said.
Jackie SpeierKaren (Jackie) Lorraine Jacqueline SpeierEpstein death sparks questions for federal government Overnight Defense: Senate fails to override Trump veto on Saudi arms sales | Two US troops killed in Afghanistan | Senators tee up nominations, budget deal ahead of recess Democrats see window closing for impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) told CNN's "New Day" that Congress or the president's advisers would be forced to take "profound" action to prevent Trump from exiting the decades-old military alliance, formed following World War II. "It had better be an idle threat from the president, because I think that act would be so destructive to our country and to our ability to protect the national security of every American that it would be a ground for some profound effort by our part, whether it is impeachment or the 25th Amendment," Speier, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN.
In 2009 she joined the United Russia party and became its deputy which was followed by the foundation of :ru:Отличницы party in 2010 and two years later became Putin's trustee. In 2010 she said this about Dmitry Medvedev's policies: > Medvedev might find himself without support from the bureaucracy. > Politicians are bound to start thinking one fine day whether they ought to > continue supporting the man who would not support them. It is not an idle > threat.
Hughes told MTV News, "I made an idle threat on Facebook [...] I would gather the Bad Hombres and Nasty Women of Ann Arbor together at a dive bar for performance on NOT My President's Day. And overnight more than a thousand people wanted in!" Other women involved in planning Bad and Nasty events were Lois Weaver and Mary Jo Watts. In Minneapolis, Bad and Nasty was involved with a performance called "This Machine", planning well in advance of February 20, 2017.
Ward realized that negotiations with the owners were going nowhere and threatened to create a Players' League. The owners thought of it as nothing more than an idle threat but had failed to realize Ward's connections in the business community, and he began to launch the new league. This new Players' League included a profit sharing system for the players and had no reserve clause or classification plan. The season began in with over half of the National League's players from the previous year in its ranks.
When Azusa sees Yuzuru with Satomi, she tries to scare Satomi off in the hope that Yuzuru will return to her; but instead, he goes back to Satomi. Azusa then decides she has to take care of Satomi permanently. And that’s no idle threat because, unknown to Yuzuru, Azusa is a demon because of a family curse, which first manifested itself after Azusa killed a group of boys who tried to rape her. Satomi tries to tell Yuzuru that Azusa is after her, but she can’t do it directly because Azusa is stalking her. Worse yet, Yuzuru, while aware that something strange is going on, is somewhat oblivious to Azusa’s actions.
On the following day, 22 February 1076, Pope Gregory VII pronounced a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV with all due solemnity, divested him of his royal dignity and absolved his subjects from the oaths they had sworn to him. This sentence purported to eject a ruler from the Church and to strip him of his crown. Whether it would produce this effect, or would be an idle threat, depended not so much on Gregory VII as on Henry's subjects, and, above all, on the German princes. Contemporary evidence suggests that the excommunication of Henry made a profound impression both in Germany and Italy.
Lem soon became weary of just not knowing what would happen to the others, and the fears started aggravating his ulcer problem. In a move to seal the rest of the team off from prosecution, he pleaded guilty to theft under color of authority to serve 18 months before parole of a 5-year sentence. Although he and the team came to realize that being sent to the same prison as Antwon Mitchell was an idle threat, they still had to deal with Mitchell's One-Niner gang being spread across almost all California prisons; Lem's life would be at risk either way. Further, even if Lem did manage to survive 18 months, he would have to be dealing with constant conflict with One-Niners, making it unlikely he would qualify for early release.

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