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Intimidate in sentence

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Back in 1998, the renowned intellectual Martin Walser publicly attacked the pervasiveness of Auschwitz in Germany’s remembrance culture, declaring that the Holocaust had become a “moral cudgel” with which to intimidate all Germans and keep them “in a perpetual state of guilt.”
They plan and design headline-grabbing attacks using every means of communications to intimidate and break the collective will of free people.
In the contemporary American workplace, employers use their court-protected free-speech rights to spread millions of dollars worth of anti-union propaganda, to intimidate individual workers, and to persuade employees that joining a union would mean losing their jobs.
For Anna Harare and his followers, the only solution is another state agency – a vast and all-powerful anti-corruption watchdog with the power to coerce and intimidate.
I hate its human-rights abuses, assassinations, dirty tricks, and criminal prosecutions to intimidate political opponents.
Of course, repression continues to intimidate many Algerians.
He also understands, as few US reporters do, how similar legislation has been used to terrorize and intimidate reporters in other countries.
Moreover, combatants could invade nuclear plants and threaten sabotage to release radioactive elements to intimidate their opponents.
The northerners are angry that Jonathan, a southerner, beat them to the presidency last year, and they see the sect as a useful instrument with which to intimidate him into ceding the office in 2015.
One is to intimidate journalists, say, by accusing a high-profile reporter of “treason” or endangering national security through his reporting, and then threatening him with torture, a show trial, or indefinite detention.
It is worth remembering that when Trump tries to intimidate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by boasting of US military power, the facts are – for once – on his side.
Early on, Le Pen would campaign like her father: using her heavy frame and heavy frown to intimidate opponents, forcing her smoker’s voice to make her point, never playing the “woman card.”
Of course, Obama is not responsible for Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, or for Putin’s massing of Russian troops on Ukraine’s eastern border in an effort to intimidate the government in Kyiv.
The police shot at the crowd on several occasions, but proved too weak to intimidate the demonstrators.
And while governments or corporations might intimidate anyone who objects by describing their algorithms as “mathematical” or “scientific,” they, too, are often awed by their creations’ behavior.
In the West, Russian gas is discussed in terms of broader political relationships – how energy dependence on Russia could give the Kremlin leverage to intimidate Europe.
The countries that Trump is trying to intimidate – particularly China and the EU – have substantial spending power and are run by experienced and tough people.
The existence of the facility seems as clear a declaration as possible that the regime is committed to achieving the capacity to intimidate its neighbors with its nuclear arsenal.
That military expedition was but the latest in a series of pogroms carried out to intimidate the restive population of what was then called East Pakistan – today’s independent Bangladesh.
Opposition forces, led by Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party, accused Obasanjo of using the police to intimidate voters and falsify the election results.
He will scandalize the summit by seeking to intimidate the former Soviet clients in the room.
Indeed, Kuchma seems to have torn a page from Boris Yeltsin's 1996 campaign manual, employing strong-arm tactics to intimidate and silence the opposition, as well as a tainted privatization process to buy support from Ukraine's powerful and corrupt oligarchs.
Baker had not just sought to intimidate the Guardian; he was sending a message to every reporter in America: Get on board with the NSA or get out.
Groups of “fighters for the revolution” – in reality, the Cuban secret police – brutally attack their political opponents and accuse them of absurd crimes in an effort to intimidate them or to force them to emigrate.
EU countries that he could not intimidate militarily, owing to NATO, were wooed with discounts – or punished with price hikes.
But to be able to inspire, Europe must also have the ability to intimidate.
Japan has also gained international credibility for the fact that, for seven decades, its diplomacy has not once sought to coerce or intimidate any other country with threats of military force.
The US Congress, for example, defines terrorism as including a motive to coerce or intimidate a population or influence a government.
What is news is that American power might also be losing its ability to intimidate them.
All of this highlights a fundamental flaw in China’s external strategy: its efforts to use its increasingly powerful military to intimidate its neighbors come at the expense of its own long-term security.
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