Sentence examples for state intimidation from inspiring English sources

The return to anti-communist rhetoric as a pretext for state intimidation.

And Pinter's The Hothouse, which also deals with state intimidation and punishment of nonconformity, makes it clear that the staff are as much victims as the patients.

Conventional wisdom in recent years has been that, outside of dissident intellectual circles, rising prosperity and state intimidation have ensured basic public tolerance of Communist party rule.

 It is unfortunate that parliament is in recess just as the storm around the Snowden documents rages (The press must not yield to this state intimidation, Simon Jenkins, 21 August).

But with such actions as Friday's aborted exercise in police state intimidation, the Abbott government also begins to look in its desperation to cling to power the most dangerous.

As strikes and pro-democracy protests roiled Egypt throughout the 2000s, many Egyptians – from labour rights activists to rural communities fighting the sell-off of their water pipelines and city-dwellers whose homes stood in the way of high-end property development – became the targets of state intimidation and torture.

Or at least the next best thing: a state of intimidation, fear, anxiety and excitement, which would produce the fruits of war, foremost among them order and peace.

Eventually, the party was replaced by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, under whom state repression, intimidation and attacks on press freedom has gone from bad to worse.

Twenty of Modi's ministers – almost a third of his 66-member cabinet – now face criminal charges, including attempted murder, rape, waging war on the state, criminal intimidation and fraud.

New documentary Among The Believers, for example, visits an fundamentalist madrassa in Pakistan, while Hooligan Sparrow tells the story of a Chinese activist who faced state surveillance, intimidation and arrest for exposing a paedophile teacher.

The number of African democracies has declined from 24 to 19 since 2005, and many of those are democracies more in form than substance, with outright theft of state capital, intimidation, compromised judiciaries and patronage making it near impossible for opposition parties to compete — what Babacar Gueye, a Senegalese professor, calls "democracy without democrats".