Sentence examples for intimidating state from inspiring English sources

taking action, signaling a change, using force, demonstrating capability, showing resolve, exhibiting relentlessness, intimidating state sponsors, promoting democracy, visibly hardening defenses and showing success.

In this combination of change and continuity, he finds that the Bush Administration's "basic framework for counter-terrorist signaling" involved ten elements: taking action, signaling a change, using force, demonstrating capability, showing resolve, exhibiting relentlessness, intimidating state sponsors, promoting democracy, visibly hardening defenses and showing success.

Also tried and acquitted for assault and intent to murder Police Officer James Kelly.... Convicted in 1933 of conspiracy to intimidate state's witnesses" (possibly why Peachy kept getting acquitted).

"A major reason why government unions are so dominant in Illinois is the decision to institute 'card check' -- forced unionizing in state government -- which had the effect of bullying and intimidating many state employees into joining the union," Rauner said at a Statehouse press conference.

Democrats complain that his office tried to tarnish candidates facing election and intimidate state lawmakers before they cast crucial votes.

Nowell, a student at Brockenhurst College, a further education college in Hampshire, said the grand, formal setting of the college "allowed public school applicants to flourish … and intimidates state school applicants, distorting the academic potential of both".

The governor is doing this to destroy unions and intimidate state workers, and to reward his rich friends who helped him get elected.

Its benefit, for Moscow, is psychological; it raises fears over Russian power in Europe that allows Moscow to continue to exploit transatlantic fissures in the Nato alliance, promoting conditions in which Russia succeeds in intimidating European states into a new European security architecture that includes Russia and excludes the United States.

The suit, initially filed in 2006, contends that get-out-the-vote activists who help voters with mail ballots have been "interrogated, harassed and intimidated" by state investigators.

So, even though the Indian state's handling of the Afzal Guru's case was disgraceful, the voice of the liberals had become too feeble, dull and predictable to intimidate the state.

Members of Russia's only independent election monitoring group have told the Guardian they are being harassed and intimidated by state security officials in the runup to Sunday's parliamentary elections.