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Example sentences for: intimidate

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Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: He is an artless buffoon whose only asset is his family name, which he uses to woo donors and to intimidate opponents.
In 1983, Reagan funded Star Wars to intimidate the Soviet Union.
Powers expressed bafflement at the charges, concluding that the letter "amounts to an attempt to intimidate ...
The flaws in their reasoning are easily exposed, and I find that no matter how gently I state my case, I make compelling arguments that frustrate and intimidate my talking partners.
Both papers note that even before this decision, the new law has produced a much more active deportation rate, and so even though the decision doesn't have that much direct impact because comparatively few illegal immigrants claim political persecution, it may still cut a rather wide swath, because in the words of the Post , it has "great potential to intimidate immigrants and make them wary of speaking out about any political matter for fear of drawing attention to their illegal status."