The uniform, perhaps, was intended to intimidate the Chongqing police.

Yet today, those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them.

The dogs were trained to intimidate, threaten and attack the people under arrest.

Reproductive rights activists say that complaints are often used to harass and intimidate women.

The results were then regularly used behind the scenes to bully, intimidate, and coerce targets.

What is news is that American power might also be losing its ability to intimidate them.

He will scandalize the summit by seeking to intimidate the former Soviet clients in the room.

The police shot at the crowd on several occasions, but proved too weak to intimidate the demonstrators.

Critics say the reforms could be used to intimidate political rivals and opposition parties in upcoming local and regional elections.

That said, it would be dangerously naïve to believe that the exercise of power and the capacity to intimidate are unnecessary.

When you use it to intimidate children, all they hear is the anger, not anything you might be trying to say.

They plan and design headline grabbing attacks using every means of communications to intimidate and break the collective will of free people.

Israel tried to intimidate those who dared to speak the truth, particularly United Nations representatives, including special rapporteurs, and other international personalities.

So Putin s views about NATO are clear. He will scandalize the summit by seeking to intimidate the former Soviet clients in the room.

14. Stresses the importance of strengthening the free and pluralistic media, and deplores actions that seek to intimidate or restrict the freedom of the media

While China s rulers aspire to shape a Sino centric Asia, their efforts to intimidate smaller neighbors hardly make China a credible candidate for Asian leadership.

Furthermore, in the Shiite tradition, the strategy of the Mahdi, the Shiite Messiah, will be to intimidate all his enemies upon his return to Earth.

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.

BRUSSELS Two years ago, governments saved the necks of the world s financial markets. Yet today, those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them.

But more recently Erdogan and his allies have launched a thinly disguised campaign to intimidate their opponents and cement government control over the media and public institutions.

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.

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.

Five more, from Vieques, had been incarcerated as a result of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) attempts to criminalize and intimidate the Vieques population that had fought for its rights.

In addition to this new technique for monitoring the Web, Beijing police are also posting signs clearly intended to intimidate Internet users at the entrances to Internet cafes (see image below)

An additional problem was the reliability of interpreters, many of whom were found to be in collusion with trafficking networks and, thus, more liable to intimidate victims rather than to assist them.

13. Stresses the importance of establishing, strengthening and expanding throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina a free and pluralistic media, and deplores any actions that seek to intimidate or restrict the freedom of the media

Security, they maintain, means more than defense. It means engagement whereby America should not seek to bully, intimidate, cajole, or persuade others to accept our unique values or to share our national objectives.

The arrest of Álvarez Paz is important evidence of the promiscuous abuse of the legal system by Chávez and his functionaries in order to persecute, intimidate, and silence those who criticize his government.

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.

It also requires that institutions act in the service of the higher interests of the nation and do not become weapons in political vendettas, used in campaigns to intimidate public officials in the executive branch.

America s inability to inspire the peoples of the Middle East, all ruled by US backed autocracies, is not exactly stunning news. What is news is that American power might also be losing its ability to intimidate them.

21. Stresses the need to ensure respect for the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of thought, conscience or belief, while noting with concern recent attempts to limit freedom of expression and to intimidate journalists

Europe might not intimidate, but it certainly inspires, and Israel should have an interest in encouraging a judicious role for Europe in building a framework for peace, stability, and cooperation in the region. It can also teach many lessons.

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.

18. Stresses the importance of establishing, strengthening and expanding throughout all of Bosnia and Herzegovina free and pluralistic media, deplores any action that seeks to intimidate or restrict the freedom of the media, and condemns violent acts of intimidation against journalists

2.9 The complainant invokes reports by Amnesty International and the United States Department of Stateb which he claims support the conclusion that police torture of political opponents to extract information and to intimidate is often instigated and supported by the executive.

Besides the loss of lives and injury of many people and a refugee crisis, the entire population has been enduring domestic gas, fuel, water crises, power outages and food shortages a collective punishment tool by the regime to intimidate Yemenis to submission.

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.

Of course, Germany s eagerness to discharge the burden of history is not new. 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.

That Russians tolerate a government of ex KGB men, for whom lack of compassion and intolerance of dissent are the norm, reflects their exhaustion from the tumult of the last 20 years. Now the Kremlin seems to think that what is good for ordinary Russians is good for independent nations as well small and weak countries will be shown no mercy once Russia is given the tools to intimidate, isolate, and threaten them with the prospect of an energy blockade.