Sentence examples for system of intimidation from inspiring English sources

In the eighteen-eighties, according to the historian John Dickie, gangs of inmates known as picciotti emerged from the region's prisons and began enforcing a system of intimidation and extortion that quickly dominated the local economy.

The Guardian's style-guide encourages its journalists to be "very careful about using the term" and the Economist also says: "Use this word with care, preferably only to mean someone who uses terror as an organised system of intimidation".

The commission heard from numerous construction executives and contractors who reported that a cabal of companies would collude to take turns in winning contracts, thus inflating the cost and bilking the government for millions, and that they ran a system of intimidation, bribery, and blackmail to keep the system in place.

The stories on Weinstein that appeared in The New Yorker — which detailed not only the abuse but also the system of suppression and intimidation used to cover it up — were penned by Ronan Farrow.

President Isaias Afwerki has ruled Eritrea since independence using a system of fear and intimidation to maintain control on society.

Maybe, now that the IG's office appears interested in the accounts of brave VA whistleblower employees, they can break the back of this oppressive self-serving system of control and intimidation.

She quotes students who complain that "half the class" take antidepressants; that the pressure is unbearable; that professors read aloud and mock students' answers on quizzes; that the system runs on a "policy of intimidation"; that the constant cramming gets in the way of thinking.

- A public accessible database fully supported with government funding that will act to proliferate positive and factual information rather than the current system of negative press and police intimidation being used by this NMFS administration.

But a convoluted electoral system, voter intimidation and the passage of time since Nepal's last serious election, in 1999, make the outcome hard to predict.

It might not have a legal system capable of disinterestedly dispensing justice, owing to the threat of intimidation.

He said there was no place for "acts of intimidation or of violence" in Zimbabwe's political system, and called on all parties to "act peacefully".