MacKinnon added: "The safety of our staff is of paramount concern to us and we are doing everything in our power to ensure they can carry out their work helping to inform our audiences on this major story without intimidation or abuse".
One major technique is subtle intimidation: "Are you sure you don't want to order a side dish?
The response follows yet another surge of bomb threats Monday against Jewish centers and school across America, the fifth major wave of such intimidation this year.
Intimidation plays a major part in most sports, and it always will.
Any time a guy maliciously tries to hurt a guy, why shouldn't he be thrown out of the game or suspended?" Intimidation is a major part of Clemens's game, and he achieves it by throwing inside.
Preparations for local elections face major hurdles since Kabila "has increased intimidation of dissenters, showing a clear authoritarian trend," ICG says.
However, critics say that those mandated to pursue the alleged thieves are under-funded and, rather than focus on painstakingly securing a few major scalps, use a scattergun approach of intimidation and trial by the public to implicate many.
Gatabaki still lost, but the Mungiki continued to be a major player in Kenyan politics through voter intimidation and retaliatory attacks.
However, some felt that intimidation and anxiety were not major barriers.
Intimidation has always been one of the major intangibles in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
