It's totally intimidating.

And that gap is very intimidating.

He's just a rather intimidating figure.

Others are very uneasy. It's an intimidating place.

It can change its body into a big, intimidating fish in a matter of seconds.

You talkin' to me? See, he can inflate himself when he wants to be intimidating.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

And therefore technology has gone from being seen as something forbidding and intimidating to something that is empowering.

Forty years back, computers were seen as something which was forbidding, something which was intimidating, something that reduced jobs.

Such acts were perpetrated with a discriminatory motive and for the purpose of extracting a confession or otherwise intimidating and or punishing him.

Now, you've seen video like this on TV a lot, and it's very intimidating, and I think it gives the wrong impression about sharks.

It was often an intimidating and uncomfortable experience, said James Vitrano, Ruby Tuesday's general counsel, who said there was no good way of tracking employee complaints.

c) Harassment any situation involving unwanted bahavior regarding gender, with the aim and result in harming the dignity of a person or creating intimidating, hostile, humiliating or similar situations

The Law is intended to protect a person from harm to his peace, privacy, freedom or body, by another person, acting in a manner constituting stalking (e.g. intimidating harassment) or bodily harm.

The secrecy surrounding the date of execution, and the place of burial have the effect of intimidating or punishing families by intentionally leaving them in a state of uncertainty and mental distress.

Because doodling is so universally accessible and it is not intimidating as an art form, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.

These are the rants of Putin s few remaining friends Venezuela s Hugo Chavez, Iran s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Belarus s Alyaksandr Lukashenka. At home, awareness is rising that Putin is damaging Russia s interests by insulting and intimidating everybody.

And I'm here to tell you, if there's anything more intimidating than talking here at TED, it'll be trying to hold the attention of a group of a thousand 12 year olds for a 45 minute lecture.

Hamas also emerged as the moral victor after the latest but surely not the last military clash. Far from intimidating the Palestinians by bombing Gaza and mobilizing troops, the Israelis made Hamas look heroic in its resistance.

He claims a violation of article 2, paragraph 1, read in connection with articles 1, and 16, paragraph 1, for having been subjected to ill treatment for the purposes of obtaining a confession, or otherwise intimidating or punishing him.

According to the State party, since the two elements of the offence the intention to cause fear by intimidating language and the act of uttering such words have been established, the reason for making the threats is not relevant.

The couple had three sons who lived at the property intermittently and police say the reign of terror the family inflicted included fighting in the street with baseball bats, intimidating nearby residents, drug use, drug dealing and excessive shouting, arguing and swearing.

The Human Rights Committee has stigmatized this, in cases involving Belarus, as having the effect of intimidating or punishing families by leaving them in state of uncertainty and distress, amounting to a violation of article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

To effectively respond to the threat of global terrorism and the unprecedented attacks on innocent civilians and non combatants, the United Nations should adopt a definition of terrorism as any act intended to kill or harm civilians or non combatants with the aim of intimidating governments or international organizations.

Most worrisome of all, he is close to the two main groups that represent the most extreme elements in Iran the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij organization. The first is a parallel pro regime army the second is an organization for intimidating opponents and anyone seeking a more open society.

In Britain, News Corporation has been creating a sort of state unto itself by corrupting the police, assuming police powers of surveillance, and intimidating politicians into looking the other way. In the US, it has behaved similarly, using corporate media power to breathe life into a stand alone political organization, the Tea Party.

But, in a regime like Vladimir Putin s, where the government decides who may be a candidate, the webcams would be farcical were they not also so intimidating. Viewed from the West, they were perceived as a tool to keep the government under control by enabling people to watch what it was doing.

On terrorism, we agree with the Secretary General's proposal to conclude a comprehensive terrorism convention that defines as an act of terrorism any act intended to seriously harm civilians or non combatants, with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a Government or international organization to do or abstain from any act.

We now have copies of desperate cables sent by diplomat Archer Blood and his colleagues at the US consulate in Dacca (now Dhaka) pleading with the US government to stop supporting a military regime that was carrying out genocide. Instead, President Richard Nixon concentrated on intimidating Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi into staying out.

d) Sexual harassment any behaviour which by words, or actions, or psychical actions of sexual nature has the aim or result in harming the dignity of a person or creating intimidating, hostile, humiliating, threatening or similar situations, motivated by belonging to different gender or different sexual orientation, which for the damaged person presents unwanted physical, verbal, suggestive or other behavior.

The staunchly pro American Saakashvili launched successful economic reforms and an all out assault on police corruption, though he, too, eventually was accused of taking bribes and indulging autocratic impulses. Having come to power in the revolt that overthrew the corrupt Shevardnadze, he resorted to the same Soviet style techniques intimidating and discrediting opponents, dispersing dissenters by force to keep his opponents at bay.

NEW YORK For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has wielded Europe s dependence on his country s natural gas as a foreign policy weapon, without fear of the European Union calling his bluff until now. With the EU launching an antitrust case against the state controlled gas conglomerate Gazprom, Europe has sent a clear signal that Putin s brutishness is no longer as intimidating as it once was.

I endorse fully the High level Panel's call for a definition of terrorism, which would make it clear that, in addition to actions already proscribed by existing conventions, any action constitutes terrorism if it is intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a Government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act.

Berlusconi did indeed run Italy the way he runs his companies like a private fiefdom, promoting cronies, intimidating critics, and paying people vast sums of money in exchange for their slavish devotion. And, two years after the earthquake in L Aquila in 2009, which killed hundreds of people, nothing much had been done to reconstruct the city, despite an initial flurry of publicity stunts showing Berlusconi, posing in a fireman s hat, personally taking charge.