Intimidation doesn't last very long.
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.
The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
Remember, we could solve this in a heartbeat with ranked-choice voting. The Democrats won't pass it. This allows you to rank your choices and eliminates the intimidation and the fear. They won't pass it; I know because I helped file the bill. Sixteen years ago in Massachusetts they could have solved the spoiler problem. They won't do it because they rely on fear. The fact that they rely on fear tells you something very important. They are not on your side. For that reason alone, they do not deserve your vote.
With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has become docile and easily ruled. As all geldings in nature, their thoughts are not involved with the concerns of the future and their posterity, but only with the present toil and the next meal.
They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority. " Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.
I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.
