Sentence examples for effort to scare from inspiring English sources

Some anti-smoking campaigns portrayed smoke-damaged and diseased body parts in an effort to scare smokers off cigarettes.

The Tory tactic is an effort to scare votes away from the Lib Dem MP, Michael Moore.

They were apparently making a last-ditch effort to scare off the investigators, who began work last year.

Other counselors told me about parents who regretted registering their children in an effort to scare them straight.

This ad uses naked anti-Muslim bias in an effort to scare Californians into voting for an indicted Republican incumbent.

But usually his critics make a bare effort to scare up at least some trace of evidence to support their case.

So now it resorts to pitiful efforts to scare them.

She also found his efforts to "scare" voters into voting for him unpleasant.

It is the latest in the Conservative party's efforts to scare English voters off voting for Ed Miliband by warning of the dangers of Scottish nationalists calling the shots.

Some academics—and former drug-takers argue that efforts to scare young childrug-takers arguethat theffortsnotohave heard of are actually counter-productive.

The Texas governor's response to what he sees as Democrats' efforts to scare older voters has been to try, as Democrats see it, to scare younger ones.