Sentence examples for a system of intimidation from inspiring English sources

In the eighteen-eighties, according to the historian John Dickie, gangs of inmates known as picciotti emerged from the region's prisons and began enforcing a system of intimidation and extortion that quickly dominated the local economy.

The commission heard from numerous construction executives and contractors who reported that a cabal of companies would collude to take turns in winning contracts, thus inflating the cost and bilking the government for millions, and that they ran a system of intimidation, bribery, and blackmail to keep the system in place.

The Guardian's style-guide encourages its journalists to be "very careful about using the term" and the Economist also says: "Use this word with care, preferably only to mean someone who uses terror as an organised system of intimidation".

President Isaias Afwerki has ruled Eritrea since independence using a system of fear and intimidation to maintain control on society.

A system of whites-only primaries and violent intimidation by white groups also suppressed black participation.

I deal with a military that at times doesn't like to answer my questions, won't talk to me, censors my photos, restricts my movements, routinely threatens to ban me from further visits in a system of military intimidation and decides at times on a whim that I should sleep in a tent rather than pay like anyone else for a hotel available to civilian guests.

She quotes students who complain that "half the class" take antidepressants; that the pressure is unbearable; that professors read aloud and mock students' answers on quizzes; that the system runs on a "policy of intimidation"; that the constant cramming gets in the way of thinking.

There's still a level of intimidation".

"It's a form of intimidation".

This is also a form of intimidation.

Critics warn of a climate of intimidation against journalists.