International observers reported fewer irregularities, less intimidation and freer media coverage.
It's not that they think that these cultural forms are equally worthy as art, but they respond with less inhibition to the pop and less intimidation to the avant-garde.
The doctor's office usually have characters like dinosaurs to wear on their face for less intimidation to the child.
While I'm now less intimidated by Atlanta, I do still get very excited when I find any place that contradicts my 9-year-old intimidation.
It is odd to argue that signing a public petition is less open to intimidation (by both unionists and employers) than a privately cast ballot.
"In the gaming area, [Intel] has not been able to accomplish much because that segment is less prone to intimidation and fear," Ruiz says.
Those improvements remain, he asserts, with residents participating in elections and going to school with less fear of Taliban intimidation — though such intimidation is far from gone.
This ranges from the use of social media to project force (videos showing assassinations, torture, threats), to recruit would-be members of extremist groups (digitally savvy marketing campaigns, online chat sites), for selling product (deep web), and also for more banal but no less important forms of intimidation and coercion (bullying).
In such a climate, he added, three brutal antisemitic murders in the past eight years – two in France, one in Belgium, and none coinciding with Israeli military action – have served "not to shock, but to encourage the antisemites", leaving them "seeking more blood and intimidation, not less".
Less direct forms of intimidation included docking pay of union workers who spoke to each other while working, barring union activists from break areas, and increasing production targets for union members to unreachable levels, moving, for example from 200 shirts a day to 900.
Less loaded notions of intimidation, terrorisation, forcible resistance, and severe violence offer greater space for a proper analysis of the justifiability of using such measures in political protest.
