But Israeli spokesman Zalman Shoval says with Iran's president still threatening to wipe the Jewish state "off the map", Israel is making no promises.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

(OMITTED) The debt crisis is threatening to sink the euro currency, so the European Union has pledged to guarantee loans totaling around a trillion dollars.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The focus of those talks is expected to be on U.S.-Somali cooperation against Islamist extremists and insurgents, who are threatening to topple the government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

CSPI is threatening to sue under consumer protection laws in several states.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

European countries have been trying to stem the tide of a near financial meltdown that started in Greece, but is now threatening to engulf other heavily indebted countries.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Although the revised plan involves anti-ballistic missiles installed at a former air base in Poland, defense experts say Moscow perceives the new project as less threatening to its security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The African Union has imposed sanctions and travel restrictions on the government of General Aziz, and the European Union is threatening to do the same if democracy is not restored.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And,it is threatening to block what little cross-border traffic exists.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

If that proves true, it would help thousands of people who are seeking to prevent life-threatening conditions.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The expression "to bulldoze" also means to make someone helpless, usually by using power or threatening violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

However,sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Today,many groups use the word to mean a life-threatening emergency.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

In the Meanwhile, oil residue continues to spread along the U.S.coastline, threatening livelihoods and sensitive wildlife in the areas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

But in developing countries, especially Africa, patients buy medicines -- often counterfeit -- to treat life threatening diseases like malaria,tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration, threatening already endangered species.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

And presenting with that actually life-threatening infection to the hospital, usually in an extreme state."

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

ECOWAS is threatening sanctions. Secretary Clinton told reporters that the Obama administration is working with partners, including ECOWAS, to decide the best way forward in Niger.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Heller's surfing adventure took him to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, where he became more aware of some serious environmental issues threatening the world's oceans.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Among other things,the U.S.military has been distributing leaflets in the area where Bergdahl was captured, urging residents to help find him, and threatening that if his captors do not release him unharmed they will be hunted down.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Just weeks ago he was a novice opposition candidate for Parliament with little recognition outside the district, which had been held by his mother Varun Gandhi quickly rocketed into the national spotlight after his recent speeches aired on national television appearing to show him mocking and threatening Muslims.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

December 7 is known as "national students' day" in Iran, and it marks the anniversary of the 1953 slaying of three students by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's security forces, following a coup against populist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadegh, earlier that year Eyewitnesses say hundreds of students have received threatening emails,this week, warning them not to participate in Monday's demonstrations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07