> Complete with the most thinly veiled threat possible: That "refusal would make it difficult to renew your contract". It wasn't even a thinly veiled threat. A

> Complete with the most thinly veiled threat possible: That "refusal would make it difficult to renew your contract". It wasn't even a thinly veiled threat. A direct translation would be "Otherwise, we would like to inform you that there is no possibility of renewing your current contract". Yeah, "in no way threatening or meant to create an atmoshpere".