Also many incidents of robbery by threats and violence are occurring.

Certainly there are downsides to leadership by coercion and force.

Leadership by coercion would not produce the results we see.

His request was tantamount to a threat.

What he said was nothing less than a threat.

We thought his threat was only a joke.

I am not in the least afraid of his threats.

Employees threatened a strike to protect worker benefits.

I threatened to reveal his secret.

The employees threatened to go on strike.

Is that a veiled threat?