Sentence examples for intimidating business from inspiring English sources

Pitching for funding can be an intimidating business, especially when you are a young woman at a testosterone-fuelled event for startups and your idea is a social enterprise to help save orangutans in Borneo.

"You'd expect him to be this intimidating business executive who's too important to rub elbows with real people.

Intimidating businesses is a powerful tactic.

Protesters disrupted hearings, heckled and threatened city officials and tried to intimidate businesses that supported the program, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.

In protest against tough prison conditions imposed on one of their own, young hoods who might have come from a casting for City of God tried to intimidate businesses into closing, just as 400,000 tourists were due to join the party.

Although China's Communist party has relaxed its regulations, some critics say its policies continue to intimidate businesses.

Like Lois Lerner at the IRS, I'm sure Media Matters and Daily Kos believe that the pain and misery they're inflicting on innocent Americans with their war on free speech is justified, but intimidating small business owners with threats and lies is indefensible.

Isaak (Delroy Lindo) intimidates waterfront business owners so he can buy up their properties.

"You're not intimidated doing business with people who are different than you," Mr. Dekkers said.

But wait, critics of Mr. Putin will interject, is it not he who scattered the opposition, imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, intimidated big business and failed to diversify the economy?

Prosecutors said the video showed Mr. DiMattina leaping from a car and smashing a window with a crowbar, the latest in a string of tough-guy acts meant to intimidate a business rival.