Sentence examples for strategy of intimidation from inspiring English sources

Russia has started to wield nuclear threats as an offensive weapon in its strategy of intimidation.

In a letter to the Electoral Commission's chief executive, Claire Bassett, he wrote: "I believe the actions of Vote Leave in disrupting the CBI conference and declaring a strategy of intimidation and protest disqualify Vote Leave from being a designated lead campaigner in the forthcoming EU referendum campaign".

"I believe the actions of Vote Leave in disrupting the CBI conference and declaring a strategy of intimidation and protest disqualify Vote Leave from being a designated lead campaigner in the forthcoming EU referendum campaign," Pickles wrote to the the commission's chief executive, Claire Bassett.

MEXICO CITY — The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view — some of the victims most likely innocents.

In fact, results of public opinion surveys released Thursday -- and comments by leading GOP pollsters -- provided proof that the Republicans' strategy of intimidation had backfired badly and even served to make Obamacare more popular with the public.

But the Taliban's strategy was one of intimidation, designed to deter rather than kill voters.

The memorandum discussed demonstrators' "innovative strategies," like the videotaping of arrests as a means of "intimidation" against the police.

There is a large body of primate research on the evolutionary origins of aggressive male sexual jealousy,3 covering the strategies of rape, harassment, intimidation and monopolisation of time – referred to as "mate guarding".

Mr. Gates has said he does not anticipate any armed Russian incursions into the territory of NATO member countries, but said Moscow was more likely to pursue strategies of "pressure and intimidation," including restricting its supplies of oil and gas, on which Europe depends.

Her aims are more urgent and extreme than those of the civil disobedient; she seeks rapid change through brutal strategies of coercion and intimidation, not through strategies of persuasion and moral appeal.

Whether or not such actions were actually condoned by the authorities, the politics of intimidation were central to the United National Movement's governing strategy and abuses were sadly inevitable.