The paper tiger is used to frighten people.

纸老虎是用来吓唬人的。

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Scientists, inside and outside of NASA, see that the Nibiru theory is an attempt to frighten people.

国家宇航局内外的科学家认为Nibiru理论不过是用来吓唬人的。

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This tactic has often been used in Iran to frighten prominent people, without stoking more public anger by detaining them directly.

伊朗经常用这种战略来恐吓杰出人士，不会煽动更多的公众怒火直接扣留他们。

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Many suspect that Mr Sankoh is deliberately keeping up a terror campaign to frighten people into voting him into the presidency.

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The men's defence was that they had been planning a political stunt, including small explosions intended only to frighten people at airports.

BBC: Three guilty of airline bomb plot

Zeinab Chami, a Muslim community activist in Dearborn, Michigan - home to one of the largest Arab communities in the US - said the administration had seized upon a new term to frighten people.

BBC: NEWS | Americas | Bush's language angers US Muslims