Sentence examples for felt cowed from inspiring English sources

Without passing judgment on the facts behind reports that asylum seekers had been burned while on a boat being turned back to Indonesia in 2014, Gillard says "the way in which the government hit hard at the ABC at that point, the way in which the ABC felt cowed enough to apologise effectively to the government, I thought that was telling you a story about the psychology in the ABC".

Somewhere along the line, people stopped asking questions, and I don't know if it's because they felt cowed or dumb, or that stuff is boring.

To feel cowed, sublimated.

Why do they feel cowed by this?" he asked.

There isn't a lot of air in her scripts, and I can see how an actor could feel cowed by them.

He used enough scientific terms — "ataxic," "histopathological review" and "vaccine excipients" — that those parents who did not feel cowed might have been flattered by his assumption of their scientific fluency.

But Dr Fox is unlikely to feel cowed: he is sincere in his belief that a replacement for Trident is vital to Britain's national security, and should therefore be exempt from the axe.

Mr Johnson told LBC Radio that Mr Pessina was "perfectly entitled" to express his view on the business landscape in the UK and it was "refreshing" that businessmen did not feel cowed from speaking up so close to an election.

As gross as it sounds (and probably feels), cow dung contains ammonia, a natural microbial agent, so it has been used as a folk remedy of sorts in the past.

I also believe that this could pave the way to further complaints because many individuals in the past have felt too cowed to argue their own case against newspapers.

If The Hague treats him and the two other Kalenjin suspects worse than it treats the Kikuyu defendants, his henchmen may run amok.But not everybody feels so cowed, at least in private.