And having accomplished this goal, the forces behind the Rosen-Weissman-Franklin persecutions went on to intimidate AIPAC into firing Rosen and Weissman.
With the failure of an abortive campaign to intimidate Slovenia into withdrawing its declaration of independence, forces loyal to Milosevic turned their full terror on Croatia.
He would enthusiastically sign legislation that would bar secret ballots on union representation elections, thereby making it easier for his labor allies to intimidate workers into consenting to unionization.
And as Palin becomes stronger, her ability to influence the US debate in a manner that constrains Obama's freedom to intimidate Israel into allowing Iran to become a nuclear power will rise.
The government has virtually unlimited resources, immense experience in playing to an attentive (and often subservient) media, the ability to intimidate witnesses into testifying, and a habit of plea-bargaining its way to victory.
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In Europe the citizenry do not have the privilege of a 1st Amendment, and Wilders recently triumphed in a "hate-speech" trial brought against him by Muslim Brotherhood-influenced elements who sought to intimidate him into shutting up.
Robert Torricelli, D-New Jersey, called Sunday's meeting an attempt to intimidate Lewinsky into changing her story, and he warned of the potential spectacle of Lewinsky testifying on the Senate floor about her sexual activities with the president.
Many people from these small minorities, together perhaps more than a tenth of the province's people, say that the Kurds, who control the territory where most of them live, are trying to intimidate them into voting their way.
"It would be tragic if the Baker 'United you stand, divided you fall' proposition were to be viewed by Gorbachev as reinforcing of his own well-known, fearmongering techniques designed to intimidate reformers into a cooperative posture, " said Roger W. Robinson, Jr. a member of the Center's Board of Advisors.
The whole system is designed to intimidate the public into paying up and shutting up.
Go-betweens tried to bribe, and then to intimidate Mr Masiyiwa into sharing his business with Telecel's backers.
Prosecutors say that Blagojevich tried to intimidate the Tribune into firing editorial writers who had been critical of him.
Southend West Tory MP David Amess complained about attempts to "intimidate" him into not turning up for question time.
Criminals bribe and intimidate their way into office for the protection it affords and the opportunities it offers for recouping their investments.
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Its president, Islam Karimov, said crossly this week that Russia was exaggerating the threat, and was trying to intimidate his country into accepting Russian bases.
If network effects offered long-term protection, there would have been no need for Microsoft to intimidate computer makers into helping it smash Netscape, no need to dump Explorer on the market as part of the Windows bundle.
Obama as well as top administration officials boycott Fox programs and are seeking to intimidate friendly news organizations into joining them in isolating Fox.
It gives Microsoft an unequaled platform from which to launch new products, and it makes it easy for Gates to intimidate other tech companies into doing things Microsoft's way.
Calls have been issued in the US Muslim community on the Internet for Muslims in America to similarly intimidate Jews by entering into synagogues during prayer services and condemn worshippers for supporting Israel.
President Barack Obama is reportedly about to sign an executive order that would vastly expand the power of his administration to coerce and intimidate the private sector into submission while restricting the ability of his opponents to engage in political activities.
It's going to frighten the Chinese people here -- unless it is intended, intended to intimidate the Hong Kong people into silence.
He and his ministers claimed asylum-seekers on one boat had thrown their children into the sea to intimidate the authorities.
Obviously displeased with the government's failure to heed their ridiculous advice, the diplomats released their cable to Haaretz in a bid to intimidate Israel's elected leadership into submission before it is too late.
It will be based on the desire of the Dutch multiculturalists to make an example of him to appease the radical Muslims who seek his death, and intimidate any would-be disciples into keeping their mouths shut.
This attempt by Putin's predecessors in the Kremlin (he was doing his bit well down the food-chain, working the problem as a KGB agent in East Germany) to intimidate, seduce or coerce the allies into giving up their necessary response to the USSR's deployment of hundreds of deadly SS-20 missiles proved to be the high-water mark for Soviet Union.
Chavez has also used his power to intimidate the opposition, forcing some opposition leaders into exile and physically undermining the everyday work of locally elected opposition officials or by taking away functions they were supposed to perform.
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Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein has used his powers of office to intimidate and threaten Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government into backing away from all the proposed bills aimed at curbing judicial power.
What they are able to do, is move out populations, intimidate whole regions of a country, and throw a neighboring country into turmoil by supporting groups of irregular fighters--this so-called Janjaweed.
Because any thought of not sustaining it into '08 will give the enemy back the population so that they can intimidate, terrorize and assassinate those who've been working with us.
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