Sentence examples for method of intimidation from inspiring English sources

Women have been systematically raped as a method of intimidation.

Wael has now filed legal papers alleging a deliberate policy of using the searches as a method of intimidation.

His guerrillas are accused of abducting children to use as fighters and sex slaves, and of hacking off victims' limbs as a method of intimidation and revenge.

The protestors were not fazed by what they saw as a method of "intimidation" as they charged through police officers and wheeled bins at them.

On Saddam Hussein's orders, opponents had been decapitated, wives and mothers of political opponents had been systematically raped as a method of intimidation, and political prisoners had been forced to watch their own children being tortured.

But the chapter epigraph that quotes from a genuine news article that appeared in The Guardian of London, which describes rape being used by gangs as a method of intimidation, anchors the Lucy subplot in depressing reality.

He said that although none of the defendants were themselves intimidating towards staff, they were aware, he said, that methods of intimidation were being used and refused to disassociate themselves from the action by leaving the store.

And these are new methods" of intimidation.

More obvious methods of intimidation were practised on Ukrainians.

The fight against crime, he said, has been accompanied by "methods of intimidation of the general public and eavesdropping".

But it contained a useful summary of the different kinds of censorship practiced around the world, including this tactic: "Encouragement of self-censorship through means including surveillance and monitoring, threats of legal action and informal methods of intimidation".