But the government did not explicitly threaten to shut down the site.

And even then, she never explicitly threatened to blackmail the President or go to the press.

He did not explicitly threaten any new attacks in an excerpt.

The defense had argued that the defendant never explicitly threatened anyone.

The journalists said they received adequate food and were never explicitly threatened with death.

But there is typically a challenge to that view, especially when the resolution does not explicitly threaten military force.

Volkswagen, based in Wolfsburg, has not explicitly threatened to move jobs out of the country.

Furthermore, the report explicitly threatens Argentina with sanctions for implementing protectionist measures.

Governments can also implicitly or explicitly threaten to establish price caps to make moral suasion more likely to succeed.

It is also the first time that Mr. Bush has explicitly threatened to to take offensive action against Iraq.