terrorize

• The use of raw power by tyrants to uproot, terrorize, torture, injure, violate, steal from, and kill those who lack such power, to keep them oppressed and suppressed so they will not challenge the tyrant's authority —  How to Save the World
• I know the foreign press likes to minimize these rocket and missile attacks, but they're no joke - they kill and they maim and they terrorize, and they make anything resembling a normal life impossible. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
• Now they clearly lack the firepower to respond to Israel and instead will do what they do best, exploit the murder and mayhem in the Occupied territories to insure another generation of radicalized Islamists that will terrorize Jews in Israel and elsewhere for years to come. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Obama has already proposed the creation of a homeland police force that will no doubt terrorize those in the "ultra-right" who will become the most vociferous and active opponents of his socialist regime. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Whereas SWAT teams were originally devised for exceptional circumstances like hostage crises, fugitive situations, or commensurate threats posing an immediate threat to a community at large, today they are used systematically to intimidate, harass, terrorize, and even murder scores of nonviolent civilians. —  who's your nanny?

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