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intimidation

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The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.

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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Unfortunately even the President of the United States of America has made little of his high office, and he too, either through lack of information or other reasons, has lent himself to the campaign of pressure and intimidation against Guatemala. Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor. Chuck Palahniuk

The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within. Margaret Thatcher

You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished. Margaret Thatcher

Terror can be very efficient against a reactionary class which does not want to leave the scene of operations. Intimidation is a powerful weapon of policy, both internationally and internally. War, like revolution, is founded upon intimidation. Leon Trotsky

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