Sentence examples for growing intimidation from inspiring English sources

But several dozen families are holding out despite increasingly higher offers of compensation, growing intimidation and frequent breaks in their water and electricity supplies.

In an interview today, one Palestinian working for a civil society organisation described how he was forced to leave Gaza because of the growing intimidation and threats.

By the early 1970s, growing intimidation and harrassment had resulted in the exodus from Poland of at least 13,000 Jews.

Urging restraint, Darling said the growing intimidation and targeting of the no campaign by a small minority of yes campaigners had "crossed the acceptability line" and needed to be stopped.

These see growing Chinese intimidation over the claims.

Apparently alarmed at the government's growing campaign of intimidation, the opposition leaders Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi have tried to rally their supporters.

Wickramatunga's murder was seen as part of a growing pattern of intimidation by the government, according to Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

There are threats to democracy in some other places: last year a coup toppled an elected government in Honduras, and opponents of the governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua face growing harassment and intimidation.

"Some of these threats have been direct, some indirect," one official said, declining to provide details, but adding that "there is a growing climate of intimidation, and some Serb media contribute to this by repeating the threats".

But none is more frightening, and strikes at the very core of what great universities do, then the growing efforts at intimidation of undesired individuals or groups, or of unfashionable (within the academy) ideas.

John, who asked that his full name not be used, is among the 150,000 people who have fled the small East African country of Burundi in past months to escape the growing political turmoil, intimidation, and violent repression currently taking place in his homeland.