1.   A feral world of backbiting malice, veiled threats, liars and blackmailers.

2.   His favourite line of attack was to start talking about finding useful employment for Vincent, and to issue veiled threats.

3.   The emails contained thinly veiled threats of harm.

4.   The opposition leader has made thinly veiled threats of violence.

5.   They backed up these demands with scarcely veiled threats.

6.   They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night.

7.   Was this a veiled threat to Richard?

8.   They warned him with veiled threats not to mention anything he had witnessed.

9.   And they offered a veiled political threat to Clinton, promising a major effort to educate voters about his veto.

10.   And the Jewish leaders here are not intimidated by the veiled threats of backlash.