The four counts of threatening death and one stalking charge involve four victims, including a San Diego Police sergeant.

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Gates' words, all agree, fell well short of threatening death.

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After several weeks I telephoned him with the slight exaggeration that my editor was threatening me with death.

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Whether the cause was childhood infection, difficult childbirth, heart attack, or pneumonia, the interval between recognizing that you had a life-threatening ailment and death was often just a matter of days or weeks.

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In Iron Man 3, Tony is obsessed with being Iron Man and building Iron Man armor, because confronting death and a world-threatening menace has made him perpetually fearful of the danger to Pepper Potts.

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Just a few weeks before his death, Ivins had been hospitalized for psychiatric examination after threatening to kill co-workers, investigators "and other individuals who had wronged him, " and agents found body armor, three pistols and several boxes of ammunition in his home when they searched it, the affidavit states.

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"It is always, always better to call the pediatrician before going to the ER for anything but life-threatening emergencies, " injuries or conditions that, if they didn't get medical attention, could result in death, says Lara Zibners, M.

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