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In this environment of intimidation, those who yet dared oppose the President got a clear warning through official channels.
Further assistance should also be made conditional on greater freedom of the mass media and an end to intimidation.
Respected organizations like Reporters without Borders and Amnesty International have collected ample evidence of violence and intimidation against freethinking Cubans, who can expect a different kind of ring than that from jangling keys.
It seems unlikely that these hackers, especially those engaged in cyber espionage, pilferage, and intimidation, are private individuals with no links to the Chinese government.
Meanwhile, those stoking anger over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have launched a campaign of intimidation against anyone who would dare to identify the sources of today’s anti-Semitism.
But the strategy of intimidation could always score a victory in the future.
A new report by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Office has highlighted 70 countries where girls have faced threats, intimidation, violent attacks, and other abuses during the last five years simply for trying to go to school.
But, too often, even if a court ruling is made, it is not enforced as a result of intimidation.
What looks like a peaceful rooftop in the morning could in fact be a scene of intimidation.
What distinguished the Hrtkovci speech, according to the Appeals Chamber, is that ethnic cleansing quickly followed, “in the context of coercion, harassment, and intimidation.”
This is especially true for Ukraine and Azerbaijan, which are likely to be Moscow’s next targets for intimidation.
Only a strong and unified European voice, reinforced by the option of alternative supplies, can counter intimidation tactics by powerful suppliers.
The right to information is denied to millions through censorship and media intimidation.
It took an exceedingly long time for Europe’s leaders to realize that all of the trust they had placed in Putin, and the tolerance they showed for his politics of violence and intimidation, has led only to further escalation and expansion of the crisis in Ukraine.
Governmental brutality and intimidation can withstand the march of history for years, but not indefinitely.
Through a mix of inducements and intimidation, he prevailed on the heating and cooling firm Carrier to keep some of its operations in Indiana, “saving” around 1,000 American jobs.
The inability of the government or the multi-national force to curb this intimidation reflects the absence of the rule of law.
Yet, despite such intimidation, Ukrainians from all walks of life have been protesting for three months in cities across the country.
A Chinese policy of pressure and great-power threats against Vietnam and/or the Philippines over ownership of the Spratly Islands, or deliberate intimidation of China’s smaller South Asian neighbors, will continue to raise alarms across the Pacific and be seen as proof of the Chinese regime’s hegemonic ambitions.
According to the voting-rights organization Golos (Voice), there may have been fewer instances of outright ballot-box stuffing or voter intimidation this year than in previous elections.
First, while Scottish nationalism has many honorable roots and aspirations, the campaign and its incubation showed a nasty tinge of chauvinism and an occasionally brutish hostility toward pluralism, reflected, for example, in the intimidation of some journalists.
Little of this gets reported (in or outside of Ukraine) because President Kuchma's arsenal of intimidation is vast.
Those arrested by the military during the anti-Mubarak protests were subjected to virginity tests as a form of intimidation.
After all, with the rate of functional literacy at only 37.5%, they can easily manipulate the votes of uneducated people with alcohol, pop slogans, and intimidation.
In the two years that led up to the Presidential vote, the people of Zimbabwe were subjected to severe intimidation, harassment and fear, all of which was carried out as part of a broader program of state-sponsored terrorism by Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).
This intimidation and violence meant that my party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) could not reach the electorate in large parts of the countryside.
Brutal intimidation of actual and potential critics is just one of the aims of revolutionary groups.
Nowhere was this more evident than in widespread defiance of the Taliban’s campaign of violence and intimidation, intended to prevent people from voting during the recent parliamentary election.
With the end of Saddam's regime, Iraq faces a reckoning for decades of physical brutality and cultural intimidation.
Imprisonment of journalists is at an all-time high, and members of the press routinely suffer harassment and intimidation while on assignment.
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