Sentence examples for system of terror from inspiring English sources

Important information might emerge about the international system of terror, they said.

Austrians were overrepresented not only in the system of terror against Jews but also on the battlefields.

Responsible for the broad lines of policy, as well as for the system of terror that upheld the state, he left detailed administration to his subordinates.

But for those who were kidnapped – and lived in fear even after their release, as they tried to pay the monthly instalments – it was a system of terror.

Bishop Voderholzer said he would personally meet any of the victims who wanted to speak to him and accused two unnamed former school leaders of imposing a "system of terror".

But he was an unattractive character, unscrupulous and choleric, brutal and coarse in speech and action, who tried to rule by a diet subordinated to his will and a system of terror.

"We could not conceive that in a naval establishment of the most powerful nation in the world, champion of democracy, things like this could happen," read an editorial in a union bulletin, "and much less [that it would] use methods and systems of terror".

And yet, black joy remains, in the words of Terrance Laney, "Undead, unchained, and fearless". It dances in the face of armed officers, sings in the presence of death, and shouts down systems of terror.

Similarly, terrorism: Etymology: French terrorisme system of the 'Terror' during the French Revolution (1794), violent measures taken in order to come to political power or to maintain a government (1795), (in extended use) intolerant attitude of the partisans of certain ideologies < classical Latin terror terror n. + French -isme -ism suffix.

They were challenging not only the system of the terror of Robespierre but the whole policy of the Revolutionary government, while awakening the hopes of the opponents of the regime.

This assumes that a megalomaniac with a grudge against America and access to the anonymous delivery system of Global Terror Inc. can be deterred from using catastrophic weapons once he possesses them.