Sentence examples for intimidating weapon from inspiring English sources

Ms. Jones played Sister Aloysius as someone who had made both an invincible fortress and intimidating weapon of her hard-won conviction.

True, the group's existing 39% stake is an intimidating weapon but, once the regulatory hurdles are cleared, Murdoch will have to enter a hard negotiation with BSkyB's independent directors, who are charged with acting in the interests of all shareholders.

The blue squad – middle-aged and greying – may not look intimidating but their weapon, a hefty 5,000 rupee (£52) fine, has reduced grown men to begging, they say.

He uses his 6-foot-3-inch frame both as a weapon, intimidating suspects and shrugging off attackers, and as a symbol of Luther's isolation and otherness, scrunching down to comfort victims and seeming perpetually ready to burst out of his tweed overcoat and conservative ties.

But General Hertling said his troops would be "pressuring and attacking Sadr forces if they continue to intimidate, carry weapons or attempt to act like an illegal militia".

That the liberty and safe, free movement of the population is respected as the river represents the means of communication for this population and that the people of the Moskitia are not intimidated with weapons.

This subject of violence may seem unique to hip-hop because you don't see Maroon 5 singing about intimidating people with their weapons, but in reality the undercurrent of violence permeates so much of our popular culture that we don't always recognize it unless it is spelled out for us.

Carrying a weapon which could be construed as threatening or intimidating is, under certain jurisdictions, brandishing a weapon.

These people are using weapons and are intimidating.

As for Iran and Syria, they have little reason to help an America that insists rightly on preventing Syria from intimidating Lebanon and Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

As long as great-power relations remain unstable, regional rivalries linger unresolved and rogue states continue to see nuclear weapons as a way of intimidating purportedly powerful adversaries, the incentive to hang on to nuclear weapons will outweigh other considerations.