Sentence examples for would have intimidated from inspiring English sources
The phrase "would have intimidated" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express a hypothetical situation in the past where someone or something had the potential to cause fear or apprehension. Example: "If he had spoken louder, it would have intimidated the other competitors."
Either way, the high stakes for any opera based on "Nineteen Eighty-Four" would have intimidated composers far more experienced than Mr. Maazel.
Re "Bush Orders Start of War on Iraq; Missiles Apparently Miss Hussein" (front page, March 20): President Bush has stood firm, with fortitude against pressure that would have intimidated a lesser person.
Ms. Dudukina, of the Interior Ministry, has said that Mr. Magnitsky was detained pending his trial because he was a flight risk, based on a purchase of passport-size photographs, and because if he had been free he would have intimidated witnesses in the case.
A few years ago, Padraig Harrington told me that he was amazed long John Daly had never been on a U.S. team because he would have intimidated the Europeans.
The roughshod living would not have intimidated London.
"I have intimidated no one.
"I think if I had set up a portrait studio people would have been intimidated to pose," Mr. Enriquez said.
Charlemagne and Bagehot would have been intimidated by Genghis Khan, and Lexington easily out-liberalled by Sri Vijaya, a Malay kingdom that dominated South-East Asian trade.
An increasing number of charity races, particularly the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to benefit breast cancer, have drawn many women to the sport who would have been intimidated by its testosterone content in the 1970's, said Ms. Williams, who started running back then.
He says that when he started the company he would have been intimidated by having 700 employees and the scope of the operation that Dropbox has today.
During his decades with Miss Piggy, Kermit championed her as she built her own fashion and fragrance empire Most men of his stature would have been intimidated by her larger-than-life personality and aspirations, but not Kermit.
