Sentence examples for terrifying submission from inspiring English sources

I quickly realized that my first instinct to run was misguided and dangerous, so I fearfully raised my hands in helpless, terrifying submission to the barrel of a handgun.

I refuse to be terrified into submission".

It is a tempting notion: the collapsible Poms, terrified into submission by a man with a glowering moustache.

Mr. Moussavi said the executions were aimed at "terrifying people" into submission.

Dustin Olson also makes an impression with an icy, scary rendition of O'Brien, the man who seems to befriend Winston but ends by terrifying him into submission.

Local folklore has it that M'Siri's head, cut off and staked on a pole as a traditional way of terrifying people into submission, cursed the Leopoldist expedition, many of whom did die on the return journey [10].

Islamic State has carved out swathes of eastern Syria and western Iraq in a drive to create a cross-border caliphate, terrifying communities into submission by slaughtering those who resist.

Animal advocates say it is impossible to create spectacles like elephants standing on their heads or tigers leaping through hoops of fire without terrifying the animals into submission.

There's something about a pregnant woman that terrifies audiences into submission".

Protesters held banners that read "Enough Killing!" and accused the Syrian regime of trying to terrify people into submission by stirring up sectarian strife.

I've been exercising a lot – running and doing Bikram yoga and all the things I've been avoiding in the past 10 years – because wearing 1940s bikinis on stage is enough to terrify anyone into submission.