Sentence examples for intention to intimidate from inspiring English sources

It was Fayyad's intention to intimidate them.

Yes, it has been a crucial part of the communal groups' intention to intimidate society.

Their intention is to intimidate an audience larger than their immediate victims, in the hope of generating widespread panic and, often, a response from the enemy so brutal that it ends up backfiring by creating sympathy for the terrorists' cause.

Peter D. Coddington, chief appellate attorney in the Bronx district attorney's office, argued that the gang's intention was to intimidate or coerce the entire Mexican-American population in the neighborhood.

It has no answer to a resolute nation in its will to put up against an enemy and Pakistan is going to give a "Persian response" this time if the intention was to intimidate its army.

"But the intention was clearly to intimidate and express displeasure".

All of South Africa's opponents know that the intention will be to intimidate them from the moment they start the long walk through the enclosed tunnel towards the pitch.

Sometimes they have a serious purpose, such as when the context is military (1, 2, 5), when the intention is sometimes to intimidate; or religious, when the audience might participate or have a role to play (6, 7, 9).

Like the other recipients of Representative Smith's subpoena, he has no intention of complying with what he calls a "campaign to intimidate us and stop scientific research".

I encourage you to read the suggested boilerplate text, which speaks of Mann "conspiring with his left-wing cronies to intimidate and silence those who would dare to question his intentions".

Politicians have said the hard-liners' intention is to intimidate reformers and to force President Khatami to withdraw two proposed laws that would limit the power of the hard-line Guardian Council, which has the power to reject laws and candidates for office, and the judiciary.