"There was a whole environment of intimidation and threats at the church," said Dwight Hopkins, a theologian at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
But a gun's usefulness can reside also in its power as a visible threat, what Teresa Garvey, an attorney adviser for Aequitas, a resource for domestic-violence prosecutors, calls an "environment of intimidation".
The city argued that when a teacher wears a political button in the classroom, it creates an environment of intimidation and hostility toward students who do not share that view.
"We will not tolerate hate speech on Facebook which creates an environment of intimidation and which may provoke real-world violence".
"It creates an environment of intimidation and fear so that she'll do what he wants or at least she'll back down," Sorenson says.
Liliana Zapata, founder and president of CD Deportivas Intimas in Medellín, works with 180 girls, starting as young as four, to give them a supportive soccer environment free of intimidation.
Charney said the new management has "created an environment of fear, intimidation and desperation" among employees.
Another woman described "an atmosphere of intimidation," an environment where she and other former staff members said Mr. Lopez veered between crude jokes and fierce tirades.
If the cameras will be installed in an outdoor environment, large outdoor enclosures may invoke a sense of intimidation (see Figure 4(a)).
"We engaged in self-censorship because of the political environment of fear and intimidation," she said.
