Sentence examples for despite intimidation from inspiring English sources

Despite intimidation, the Muslim Brotherhood, though technically banned, won 17 seats.

He acted from the top of an organisation for which he had worked for 30 years, despite intimidation and coercion from the very people that promoted him.

Some users wish to live in public despite intimidation, and a protected account is a signal that those with bad intent have forced them to retreat.

Despite intimidation by plainclothes thugs, university students have elected parallel free unions after government administrators banned hundreds of candidates from official student representative bodies.

Kazeboon is now a countrywide campaign where young people screen footage of the military's deeds in streets and squares and universities – despite intimidation, and often violence.

United Nations officials say they expect voter turnout to match that of the Aug. 30, 1999, referendum when 98percentt of all eligible voters cast their ballots despite intimidation by the Indonesian military.

He said that the bloc was determined to support its poorer neighbours despite Russian pressure: "The European Union stays the course despite the intimidation, the aggression, even the war, of the last year," he said.

Despite the intimidation, they refused to back down.

He is eager to tell his story, he says, despite the intimidation he has experienced.

This had been slowly getting some refugees back across the border to East Timor, despite widespread intimidation from the militias.

On Aug. 30, 1999, East Timor's 800,000 people voted for independence from Indonesia despite the intimidation of the militias.