Yet we cannot decide whether this build up is menacing.

It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm.

Herbert opened his mouth, but Tom gave him a menacing look.

The sculptures are typically puzzling, often weird, and sometimes even a little menacing

As a little retaliation with a just ever so slightly menacing message on the back of the shirt.

The Thatcherite assumption, in other words, was that government failure is far more menacing to prosperity than market failure.

Its topography and ethnic distribution are generating autonomist and even secessionist forces that threaten national unity in more menacing ways than anywhere else.

Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

So the global economy is flying on a single engine, the pilots must navigate menacing storm clouds, and fights are breaking out among the passengers.

Traditional characters also abounded in the form of Sailor Mas', Fancy Indians, Jab Jabs (pretty devils), Jab Molassies (the more menacing kind) and Moko Jumbies.

Through a combination of financial incentives and menacing threats, including two incidents of police shootings during demonstrations, the Kibaki government ordered the nation to vote yes.

It was simply taken for granted that what is supposed to be public space the streets of Moscow was appropriated for a vaguely menacing private message.

The Soviet Union s sudden collapse was a strategic boon to Asia, eliminating a menacing empire and opening the way for China rapidly to pursue its interests globally.

But when we went to speak with her, when we took this photograph, the slaveholders were still menacing us from the sidelines. They hadn't been really pushed back.

'What do you mean by that?' she cried, glancing with terror at the definite expression of hatred on his whole face, and especially in the cruel, menacing eyes.

Look at the imagery minarets as missiles, women as menacing, the burqa as concealment, black as a threat, the Swiss flag cast into shadow from the east, the cross obliterated.

In recent months, massive droughts have struck the grain producing regions of Russia and Ukraine, and enormous floods have hit Brazil and Australia now, another drought is menacing northern China s grain belt.

The cost of non intervention, of allowing Qaddafi to crush his own people, and of thus signaling to the world s despots that a campaign of domestic terror is acceptable, is far more menacing.

GlobalPost, an international news organization within the PRI family, commissioned essays from five young Syrians who all made the difficult decision to leave their homes and undertake a menacing journey out of the country, to Turkey, to Greece and across southern Europe.

Indeed, Putin and Medvedev have worked in perfect tandem with respect to Georgia, cooperating and skillfully performing their different roles, with Putin cast in the lead role of the menacing god of a Russian reckoning, and Medvedev in the supporting role of a possible humanitarian peacemaker.

I do not speak of myself, though it's very hard on me, very hard,' he said with a look as if he were menacing some one for making it so hard on him. 'And so, Princess, I shamelessly cling to you as an anchor of salvation!

After several months of listening to Israeli (and, to some extent, US) war rhetoric, the regime began issuing its own menacing bombast, as a matter of substance and to defend the pride of a regime that views itself as the heir to the glorious imperial tradition of Persia.

In a region with a strong indigenous past but a scattered and isolated present, Bolivia is, alongside Guatemala, perhaps the only country in Latin America where indigenous peoples make up a majority of the population. Its topography and ethnic distribution are generating autonomist and even secessionist forces that threaten national unity in more menacing ways than anywhere else.