But instead of scaring the protesters into going home, the crackdowns have reinforced their conviction to stay.
Advising on corporate takeovers proved to be a lasting and highly profitable business, attracting big corporate clients instead of scaring them off.
Instead of scaring the villagers, he is a popular local celebrity mobbed by fans begging him to autograph pitchforks and to roar for them.
Instead of scaring people into submission, the abuses committed during recent attacks in Idlib seem to have only strengthened opposition to the government.
Instead of scaring off even more churchgoers, tougher confessionals could win back Catholics yearning for traditional practices, said Francis Rocca, a Vatican correspondent for Religion News Service.
Instead of scaring them out of doing so by requiring arbitrary and impossible expenditures.
Sami says he would prefer to gently inform his audiences about his culture and community instead of scaring them off.
To the second point, competition is nothing new to the construction industry; instead of scaring away newcomers, it will be a way for traditional firms to prove their superiority in a new market.
In fact, instead of scaring the super-rich from stashing their cash in accounts where they can avoid paying taxes, the international treaties actually prompted the world's wealthy to move their money to other tax havens in many cases, the study found.
According to the head of their HIV program, Dr. Kevin De Cock (more like Kevin "Dumb Jock" if you ask us), instead of scaring the shit out of straight middle-class high school students whose chances of being in the same room as the virus are about 2,000 to 1, AIDS activists should be focusing their time and money on the people who are actually at risk for transmission.
The message suggested that it would be more effective to motivate people to reduce risk behavior by telling them how they can change their unhealthy behavior, instead of scaring them.
