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Intimidate in sentence

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Well imagine a small cube that's about this big standing in front of you in the middle of the room, and as you approached it, it tried to intimidate you by growing into a cube that's twice its height and [eight] times its volume.
They use political violence to intimidate, physical violence to terrorize and mental or emotional violence to undermine.
As a teacher, I've stood in front of 120 students, so this stage does not intimidate me.
They're using it to recruit, to sell their products, to coerce, to intimidate and to kill.
The vast majority of civilians, like that young baby, who are dying in war zones around the world, are dying at the hands of various armed groups who rely on a near-infinite supply of cheap, easy and efficient weapons to rape, threaten, intimidate and brutalize those civilians at every turn.
They fight back, and the issue for you is when they try to intimidate you, do you give up, or do you fight on?
I know a woman who decided to sell her house because she didn't want to intimidate a man who might marry her.
Perhaps she had a genuine concern in that they looked "scary" and that they would intimidate the clients and their customer base.
Already, in the United States, in Indiana, an 18-year-old was charged with attempting to intimidate his school by posting a video of himself shooting people in the hallways ... Except the people were zombies and the video was of him playing an augmented-reality video game, all interpreted to be a mental projection of his subjective intent.
It's also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics.
And the punishment that the dictators are using to intimidate them must not prevent us from getting what we want.
And Amy, raised by humans, surrounded by humans, yet can intimidate dozens of killer apes around her? What sort of twist of common sense is that?
Three thuggish idiots, Dave, Phil & Ernie (Carlo De Mejo) board & it's clear that they're there to cause trouble as they intimidate & verbally abuse the other passengers & staff.
In the opening scene, three obviously evil gunmen ride into a western town and, with menacing glares, they intimidate all the pathetic normal people hiding in their homes.
Mort killed the detective he hired to intimidate the stalker.
There're some guys here said it's had a bad ,going-to-nowhere story then they can't get the message , the reason blah blah blah , some others complained about its slowness , then some avuncular naturalist point out that these actors can be compare with a wax statue of Paris Hilton , some "critics" bring King Kong (OMG) and LOTR (WTF) to intimidate this movie , so, kiddos , go home and leave indie spirit alone !
To intimidate these rebellious residents, he hires a giant thug, nicknamed El Bruto (the Brute, duh!).
I told them, Hollywood makes some superb films....but they can awe and intimidate you with their sheer mastery of the medium, technique and superior budgets.
He is also using anti-corruption and reeducation efforts to intimidate (real and potential) reform opponents within the CCP.
The new sanctions simply are not severe enough to intimidate Iran into submission, and more restrictive ones would not pass muster within the Security Council.
But it is not just a matter of willingness; the US has lost its ability to intimidate other countries, even allies and clients like Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
And Russia has already announced plans to send a nuclear-armed submarine to raise the national flag on the North Pole this summer – a measure designed to intimidate Canada and undermine its claims to the Arctic’s vast natural resources.
But the most important – and the most worrying – qualities they share is an ability to substitute salesmanship for substance, a willingness to tell bald-faced lies in pursuit of publicity and advantage, and an eagerness to intimidate critics into silence.
And, like past insurgencies, the Iraq conflict is one in which the insurgents use horrific acts to intimidate the public, expose the shortcomings of the government, and goad the regime into overreactions that might turn the public against it.
A prosecutor questions a suspect about a plan to intimidate Christians before the police have actually “discovered” it.
Antyufeyev is using the tenuous ceasefire agreed under the Minsk Protocol to create a cloned KGB service, called the MGB, to intimidate Ukrainian citizens trapped in Donbas into submitting to proxy Kremlin rule.
Today's Kremlin, however, is full of clever ideas about how to control and intimidate newspapers, radio, and television.
Likewise, China’s foreign ministry has unleashed a torrent of vitriol intended to intimidate India into submission.
Its power to intimidate and punish may trump all its other moves to stay ahead of the discontent.
In fact, China is already taking steps to intimidate South Korea over its decision to deploy a US anti-missile system to defend itself against the North.
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