11.   Besides lawsuits, government officials have used open threats of possible violence.

12.   Beyer said that struggling airlines frequently use bankruptcy threats as leverage against labor unions and creditors.

13.   Better than either alternative would be if Blair could use the threat of suspension to force Sinn Fein and the IRA into decommissioning.

14.   Between the two extremes lie many species, such as hamadryas baboons, in which males do not force copulation but nonetheless use threats and intimidation to get sex.

15.   A few others wanted to indict her, and use the threat of jail to make her talk.

16.   A study released last week by the Fund for the Feminist Majority showed extremists increasingly using death threats as their primary tactic in the battle.

17.   Administration officials said they favored a call for new elections in Peru using the threat of multilateral economic sanctions as leverage.

18.   Advocacy groups often use the threat of a ballot measure for political leverage.

19.   But Gore suggested that the administration may use the threat of a veto on other legislation to help force action by the House.

20.   But Karimov has instead used the threat of Islamic fundamentalism to crush dissidence within Uzbekistan.