Sentence examples for intimidation like from inspiring English sources

After a wave of intimidation like that, the election this year seems like the dark denouement of a grand experiment gone wrong.

A similar note is struck by a 1942 scarf with a map pinpointing bomb strikes, printed with the slogan "London Can Take It" and part of Winston Churchill's famous "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech.Methods of fear-mongering and intimidation, like those of reassurance, do not change much over time, Mr Cooke says.

The threshold can be met if the pimp instills fear of a beating, but also by more subtle intimidation, like spreading a secret that might subject a prostitute to ridicule, or doing anything "calculated to harm" the person's health, safety or immigration status.

The threshold can be met if the pimp instills fear of a beating, but also by more subtle intimidation, like spreading a secret that might subject the person to ridicule, or doing anything "calculated to harm" the health, safety or immigration status of the prostitute.

This viewpoint is troubling because it downplays the social price of sports (including the labor, cash, and, most recently in Qatar, the lives that sporting venues cost to build), but also because it normalizes acts of aggression and intimidation, like monkey chants or the bananas hurled at players of color, that occur during sporting events themselves.

Asked about his clash with Mr. Lhota, he said: "I don't like intimidation.

Most of his work in "Tinker Tailor" is intellectual; the active spying, with rescues, entrapment, intimidation, and the like, comes in "Smiley's People".

So the bigger the bicho, the bigger the implant—I guess it's an intimidation thing, like I'm supposed to be scared of some dude with a big square dick.

"The work we've done so far was driven by the extremists on the other side, using these intimidation tactics like going to eat burritos with an AR-15," said Lamb, "We will continue to do this work in places where we feel like we should be safe taking our children".

Organizers of community Durga Pujos, of which there were thousands, would go knocking door to door, using every technique from gentle emotional blackmail to enforcer-like intimidation to collect donations.

The high-ranking former general described Rumsfeld's approach to the Joint Staff war planning as "McNamara-like intimidation by intervention of a small cell" — a reference to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and his aides, who were known for their challenges to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam War.