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.
He and his ministers claimed asylum-seekers on one boat had thrown their children into the sea to intimidate the authorities.
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.
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