Sentence examples for purpose to intimidate from inspiring English sources

"A person is guilty of the crime of bias intimidation," Judge Berman said, "if he commits an offense with the purpose to intimidate an individual because of sexual orientation".

Last year, the Supreme Court upheld the central part of a Virginia law that made it a crime to burn crosses with a purpose to intimidate.

The Turkish overreaction serves a purpose: to intimidate those who would dare to do nothing more than speak a historical truth.

A Newark man accused in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl, who police said rebuffed his advances by telling him she was gay, was indicted on Monday by the Essex County prosecutor on a charge of murder "with a purpose to intimidate an individual or group because of sexual orientation".

They also served a psychological purpose to intimidate Ferdinand's rivals: Skanderbeg compared himself to Pyrrhus of Epirus of antiquity who marched into Italy to defend the Greek city-states from Roman expansion.

Do we really need to have our sensibilities bombarded by thugs chugging across the ice, whose only purpose is to intimidate the opposing players?

When someone in the administration revealed that Ms. Plame was an undercover C.I.A. operative, one probable purpose was to intimidate intelligence professionals.

Its sole purpose is to intimidate Black Mississippians.

Their purpose is to intimidate legislators and make them fear for their lives if they vote for sensible measures to reduce gun violence.

But when they do happen, they are violently repressed by the police, and hijacked by what I'd call 'state-sponsored hooligans' whose only purpose is to intimidate, and beat, in total impunity.

Her earlier book is more explicit about the way 'Huey and his entourage of restless gunmen were prowling the after-hours clubs nightly with no purpose other than to intimidate'.