Sentence examples for intimidating change from inspiring English sources

The king also imposed an intimidating change to the traditional form of justice, the trial by ordeal: Andrianjaka ordered that rather than administering tangena poison to an accused person's rooster to determine their innocence by the creature's survival, the poison would instead be ingested by the accused himself.

For example, though "The Brave/Avant-Garde" might like rushing out and committing to the new Windows, more traditional users could find the changes intimidating or annoying.

Perhaps the prosecutors were intimidated by the change of venue".

"The government should not intimidate people to change their path... this movement will continue and we are ready to pay any price," Mr Mousavi was quoted as saying by his Kaleme website.

"The government should not intimidate people to change their path … this movement will continue and we are ready to pay any price," Mousavi was quoted as saying on his Kaleme website.

She accuses Rowland of having "intimidated staff" to change reports to favor industry, and writes that research on glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, shows the pesticide should be categorized as a "probable human carcinogen".

Tenure, entrenched labour unions, rampant careerism, uncomprehending politicians, narrow-minded university governors: the obstacles to reform are so intimidating that the possibilities of change appear to be, at this stage, no better than marginal.

When it comes to your professional path, a change is always intimidating, and too often people decide to stay in academia for the wrong reason--finding a postdoc is much easier than re-evaluating a career plan you have been following for way too long.

Soon after the first loss in 50 World Cup qualifying games in intimidating Azteca Stadium two weeks ago, Mexico changed its coach and its roster, the least it could do under the circumstances.

Life can throw us curveballs when we least expect it and these changes can be intimidating.

It is not just that Gauguin changes, it is that art changes too, in his intimidating hatchet of a face.