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Example sentences for "intimidation"

Lexicographically close words:
intimations; intime; intimidate; intimidated; intimidating; intind; intinded; intire; intirely; intitle
  1. Intimidation often not unaccompanied by violent assaults on non-strikers is an ugly feature common to most of them.

  2. The investigation documented widespread poverty, physical brutality, and intimidation as well as legal discrimination.

  3. Therefore he was even more vulnerable to physical intimidation than before.

  4. The passionate belief in white superiority and a desperate fear of black retaliation caused many whites to resort to physical intimidation to achieve their purposes.

  5. Hayes had expressed an awareness of the brutality and intimidation which still continued in the South, but he had apparently concluded that federal intervention only aggravated the problem.

  6. Where terror and intimidation were not successful, relentless economic pressure by landowners, merchants, and industrialists brought most of the ex-slaves into line.

  7. To do this, the therapist has to be able to cut through the vicious circles of resentment, anger, blame, frustration, and intimidation that frequently hold families in a death grip.

  8. They feel less fear or intimidation in the presence of the authority figure the therapist represents.

  9. And as for the last clause, the Government of the Sultan saw in it “a proceeding of intimidation calculated to deprive their action of all merit of spontaneity, and a source of grave complication for the present as well as for the future.

  10. In intimidation and control of the press, they far outdistanced the British, whose papers circulated chiefly within the big cities held as British citadels throughout the war.

  11. The new-found power of combining was thus often abused, intimidation and assault were common, and even murder was not unknown.

  12. They appealed to law-abiding citizens against concession to violence, and against the gift of supremacy to a political party which had not condemned, if it had not encouraged, intimidation and murder.

  13. In the south-west and many of the midland counties lawlessness and intimidation were worse than ever.

  14. Only two petitions followed the general election, one at Belfast against a nationalist, and the other at Derry against a tory, and in neither of the two was undue influence or intimidation alleged.

  15. The second finding of censure was that the Irish members incited to intimidation by speeches, knowing that intimidation led to crime.

  16. All differences were narrowed down to the point whether the enactments against intimidation should be inoperative unless and until the lord lieutenant should waken them into life by proclamation.

  17. The elections were conducted quietly and legally, no serious charges of intimidation or fraud were made, and the results were loyally accepted by men of all parties.

  18. But the result was unsatisfactory; owing, it was openly charged, to gross intimidation and frauds by the Government.

  19. A great deal of fraud and intimidation was practised, and some violence was exercised, but always in such a manner as not to provoke the calling of United States troops to the scene.

  20. The latter at first submitted and paid a fine of $1000 to the labor organization, but later brought action in court against the officers charging them with intimidation and extortion.

  21. As in previous cases the court rejected the plea that a combination to raise wages was illegal, and directed the attention of the jury to the question of intimidation and coercion, especially as it affected third parties.

  22. The journeymen were charged with practising intimidation and violence, while picketing their employers' shops during a prolonged strike against a reduction in wages.

  23. Cooke wrote on the morrow to Auckland: "The activity and intimidation of Opposition, together with their subscription purse, does sad mischief.

  24. He refused to do so, knowing well the scenes of violence and intimidation that would result from consulting primary assemblies of Irishmen.

  25. A charge is made against Government of intimidation and the exertion of martial law.

  26. The Haitian incursion in 1995 used similar principles of intimidation to eliminate any real fighting.

  27. To repeat, intimidation and compliance are the outputs we seek to obtain by the threat of use or by the actual application of our alternative force package.

  28. This example of shock, awe, and intimidation rests on the proposition that such effects must occur in very short periods of time.

  29. If it is a settlement which opens its doors to him it becomes all his, and he does not shrink from intimidation as a means of driving the Italian or the Jew from its welcoming gates.

  30. Roughness, cursing, intimidation and a mild form of blackmail prevailed to such a degree as to be common.

  31. If they had felt the influence of intimidation on their spirits, it arose less from any apprehension of consequences to themselves, than from the recollection of the dearer interests involved in their perfect security from discovery.

  32. It was evident the views of these latter were not immediately hostile; for neither were they in their war paint, nor were their arms of a description to carry intimidation to a disciplined and fortified soldiery.

  33. His anger was principally directed against the assailant, on whom the tones of his reproving voice produced a change the intimidation of his powerful opponent could never have effected.

  34. This put an end to the intimidation of voters and to the free fights and riots which had so frequently made the polls a political pandemonium.

  35. This court had for its object the punishment of such crimes committed by the great families, or their adherents, as the ordinary law courts could not, or through intimidation dared not, deal with.

  36. I believe there was never any thing equal to the threats and intimidation that took place in that city during that election.

  37. The soldiers were ordered to be upon duty, and every species of threat and intimidation was resorted to, in order to deter people from attending the much-dreaded dinner.

  38. They took the law into their own hands and began to attempt by intimidation what they were not allowed to attempt by the ballot or by any course of public action.

  39. James boasted that he had silenced the Puritans; and so he had, but it was by intimidation and bluster alone that he had succeeded in doing so.

  40. Yes; there was more or less intimidation in different parts, even after this.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intimidation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admonition; bluff; bravado; bustle; caution; caveat; coercion; denunciation; duress; flurry; fluster; foreboding; frightening; fuss; imminence; intimidation; menace; monition; pressure; rant; remonstrance; rodomontade; side; splutter; sputter; swagger; terror; threat; violence; denunciation; duress; flurry; fluster; foreboding; frightening; fuss; imminence; intimidation; menace; monition; pressure; rant; remonstrance; rodomontade; side; splutter; sputter; swagger; terror; threat; violence