The purpose of terrorism is just that — it is to terrorize people and we will not be terrorized.
They terrorize villages, they take children into custody and turn them into child soldiers, they engage in rape and slaughter in villages they go through.
President Putin's army and special services operate in eastern Ukraine, often covertly, supporting separatist formations that terrorize the local population and openly threatening invasion.
Torquemada used torture and confiscation to terrorize his victims, and his methods were the product of a time when judicial procedure was cruel by design.
In response, Duvalier organized a paramilitary group the so-called Tontons Macoutes ("Bogeymen")—to terrorize the population.
For example, some masks in Africa, as well as in Oceania and East Asia, have such a grotesque or frightening appearance as to lead one to suspect that they represent evil spirits with an intent to terrorize the spectators; actually they may have the opposite character and function.
Advances in contact lenses, prosthetics, and chemistry made possible magnificent and startling displays such as those in Planet of the Apes (1968), Time Bandits (1981), and The Lord of the Rings and those creating the never-ending flow of creatures that terrorize horror-film audiences.
Genghis Khan was neither the first nor the last nomadic conqueror to burst out of the steppe and terrorize the settled periphery of Eurasia.
features the so-named Time Traveller who ventures hundreds of thousands of years into the future, in which the human race, presumably thanks to evolution and the forces of unchecked capitalism, has split in two the dissipated, hedonistic Eloi and the subterranean, vicious Morlocks, who terrorize the night and feed upon the former.
But Obote's increasing reliance on the military and police to terrorize his political opponents aroused the resentment of southern Ugandans, and it allowed Amin to build a following based on recruits from among his own Kakwa people.
Their chief effect seems to have been to terrorize the troops that they were used against.
