He took a couple steps forward and thrust out with his sword, hoping to intimidate them or scare them away. |
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It's about using fear and xenophobia as a tool to scare people into voting for the Liberals at the next election. |
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When someone opens the door it hits the door jam and sets off an alarm that will scare them away and wake you up. |
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Grey-headed sparrows are relatively nervous birds and if you scare them away a few times they will go off and look elsewhere for a nest site. |
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Is it no more than rhetoric, designed to scare the mullahs and force them to drop their nuclear programme? |
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Ayako wasn't one to scare easily, and she knew full well they'd catch onto that. |
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At 74, Browning has lived through more presidential campaigns than she cares to remember and she claims not to scare easily. |
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This dog will scare easily and will most probably beat you to the hiding place if an intruder bursts into your home! |
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Mr Mooring, who served with the Eighth Army and saw action at El-Alamein, does not scare easily. |
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I really enjoy the scare from a great horror movie, but have to say it runs a close second place to a great comedy or romantic comedy! |
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Even with an admittedly disturbing ring, a cell phone could never match the scare of a clown jumping out of a closet, brandishing an ice pick. |
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Ivory's head snapped up to look him straight in the eyes, her face now a pale sheet of white from the sudden scare. |
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In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again. |
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The security personnel then resorted to aerial firing to scare away the rioters, which prompted the Taliban militia to fire back in retaliation. |
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They are using their reactionist tactics to try and scare people away from real issues. |
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Despite the scare, she's determined to rest up and get herself out to the village to visit our athletes. |
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After the girl tried to leave, Jamilmira shot his gun into the air to scare her. |
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Use yellow journalism to scare the public into demanding that legislators pass a law to fix the nonexistent problem. |
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Legend has it that the lammergeier will sometimes dive at animals, even humans, trying to scare them into falling off the escarpment. |
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She met no one along the way and only had one brief scare when she ran into a house cat, yet she made it to the library quietly unnoticed. |
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And to do so it must make the efficient allocation of scare resources its prime objective at all times. |
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The current scare over migrants and refugees is just as racist and irrational. |
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The kooky pair have been dating for less than a year, but Tom's recent health scare swiftly brought the two together. |
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These kinds of horror stories might scare kids, but they're unlikely to scare worldly adults. |
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It is used to hold thick doors open, crush particularly large spiders and scare witless those English students who have to read it. |
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Mrs Smith fears the project will harm the environment and scare wildlife away. |
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Poultry shops like this one in Triplicane are finding fewer takers these days due to the bird influenza scare. |
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Every single one is simply a scurrying shadow or quick image of a ghost accompanied by a loud whomp of scare noise from the orchestra. |
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And each was a special customer, and he was determined to serve their needs and he would see if he couldn't scare something up. |
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Thousands of mini-buses are likely to be recalled by manufacturers Mercedes-Benz after a crash in Greater Manchester triggered a safety scare. |
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She has resumed official duties after 20 days of medical leave following a cancer scare. |
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The recent scare over Scottish salmon highlighted the need for the highest standards in production. |
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All it did was scare the moderate Republicans into become utter reactionaries. |
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A major pollution scare was sparked off in York after dead fish were found floating in the River Foss. |
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I only had the knife to scare him in case he got me and gave me a leathering. |
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The move follows a scare on May 11, when authorities ordered workers to evacuate several federal buildings. |
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A tourist caused a security scare when he deliberately left his bag of dirty washing on a plane which brought him home from Ibiza. |
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Many of those who gave up beef following the BSE scare have gone back to eating organic beef. |
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He says talking publicly about his own cancer scare helped him get through it. |
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The booming voice and scare tactics turn out to be a ruse, a way of hiding a small and powerless man, who is no wizard at all. |
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For example, when we see that Emily owns a cat, is there any doubt it will jump out at someone for a cheap scare later on? |
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In Germany, the food scare has sparked an about-face on agricultural policy. |
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She figured that he was on the phone or watching television, and decided to jump in the room and maybe give him the scare of his life. |
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The British anti-drink-driving campaigns try to scare you into complete abstinence. |
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The couple's noisy row drew the attention of neighbors and local officials, who explained to them the news surrounding the food scare. |
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I keep waiting for him to warn me off, to use his own crippling accident and this video to scare me straight. |
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Megan immediately halted and leaned on the pole tip for support, gulping in air after the sudden scare. |
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Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights. |
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Whereas the British want to see children's faces light up with joy, those foreign johnnies prefer to scare the living daylights out of them. |
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Whenever we see bats, we get quieter because they have an acute sense of hearing, and we don't want to scare them. |
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There is a class of person who delights in trying to scare the pants off you with appalling tales of child-rearing horror. |
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The word alone creates fear, and by now almost anything manages to scare a lot of Americans. |
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Instilling a feeling of insecurity is the best way to scare your population into submission and frighten away potential investors. |
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I fall face first into the water to the growls and scare a two-foot alligator resting on a lily pad. |
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They are done to scare people and to frighten them, to make them anxious and worried. |
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If the cow gets too close to the fence co-ordinates, the collar will make a noise, or give the cow an electric shock to scare it away. |
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I realized I must look rather intimidating so I relaxed and laughed so as not to scare everyone further. |
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I'd wanted it to scare him off, send him fleeing back to wherever he'd come from. |
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But these are committed professionals who don't scare easily. |
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After a worker called 911, Alfaro says the plant manager, Michael Leblanc, gathered up the workers to scare them straight. |
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But while his anti-corruption message has wide appeal, his unabashedly nationalist politics scare many traditional liberals. |
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The look at Brenda Foster gave me was enough to scare any young child to death. |
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Abetted by scare stories on television and the Internet, people make bad judgments about risk that can lead to excessive wariness of new corporate products such as vaccines. |
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Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking. |
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Yet the sheer size of the Asian juggernauts and the prospect of them indiscriminately swallowing global resources scare economic planners and consumers alike. |
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She was wasting her time, trying to scare an already badly frightened man. |
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With every corner she turned she had to fly past another guard, and with every door she opened another alarm would sound and scare her out of her wits. |
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American moviemakers and studio executives have always been slower to respond to social unrest, perhaps out of fear that controversy will scare away audiences. |
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The Tories were so keen to push ahead with the float that they failed to order a full inventory of the company's assets, fearing this would scare off investors. |
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My mind was kind putting me at rest after it gave me the scare of my life. |
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Which reminds me to mention a word of caution when managing cows around calving time, there is nothing like a good scare to make one realise the dangers of attack. |
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When the game started 45 minutes later I got the scare of my life. |
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The Turkish team had a major scare on their way here when their privately chartered plane hit an air pocket and briefly plummeted towards the ground. |
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But mostly, I think the Democrats are cynically pushing this shutdown talk as a way to scare their base. |
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During the Alar scare of 1989, for example, consumer concern about pesticide use in the apple industry sparked a demand for organic apples and apple juice. |
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Georgina stepped in between the dingo and her baby sister just before their mother was able to scare the dingo away. |
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In Greece, they sneak into homes to scare children, and in Scandinavia, the gnomes play pranks. |
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Mrs. Deshales ordered an ambulance, which managed to scare off Wahlberg and his pals. |
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There are stretches in dragnet Nation that are too obviously designed to scare, and parts feel paranoid. |
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A Northampton company was reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority after it used scare tactics to sell anti-radiation mobile phone products. |
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The reason that serious entertainment journalism only tends to exist in major outlets is that only major outlets can scare the system out of reprisals for their honesty. |
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The findings come in the wake of a health scare for the Queen, which saw her rushed to hospital with a bout of gastroenteritis. |
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Preaching in such an environment would seem to be easy, and Willimon could claim success by following the advice not to scare the horses. |
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Magellan and his men then tried to scare them off by burning some houses in Bulaia. |
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As we have seen, it is not just the fact that they scare people. |
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The Romans are reported to have used cucumbers to treat scorpion bites, bad eyesight, and to scare away mice. |
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Many species thrash about violently when disturbed to scare away potential predators. |
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Demonstrations by Chartists and Irish nationalists failed to attract widespread support, and the scare died down without any major disturbances. |
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But by 1953, with McCarthyism and the second Red Scare in full swing, the FBI moved from surreptitious research to direct contact. |
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There are many great scenes in the film, scenes that open up the backstory more, and scare the bejesus out of you. |
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The animals are protected and people moving outside the settlements are required to have appropriate scare devices to ward off attacks. |
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The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud. |
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If spitting is supposed to scare the opponent, it fails miserably.... It's not only unhealthy and silly, it's schoolyard kid stuff. |
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The real Opposition, the union movement, are again playing politics and seeking to scare Tasmanians with dangerous and false scaremongering. |
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There is a feeling he will be allowed to leave for a fee in the region of PS8 million, which will scare off the majority of suitors. |
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The British and French scientists believe they were trying to make themselves sound heavier to scare off the competition. |
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Bryan got a shotgun and tried to scare off the wolves by firing into the air, but that strategy backfired. |
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It might scare off people who are on the border who think, If they can't catch me I'm good to go,'' Hurd said. |
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As for inclusions, chapter 1 employed far too many scare quotes around terms and concepts. |
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So runs the latest nanny-state scare story peddled by the food hygiene industry. |
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I agree that it would be bad news if the grant were withdrawn totally but it is still a scare story. |
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In turn, Stoke had to bring veteran Russell Hoult back from a loan at Notts County because of the Kirkland scare story. |
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Sales of canned salmon appear unaffected by the recent scare story about Scottish farmed fish. |
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Many of her fellow suffragettes were imprisoned and refused food as a scare tactic against the government. |
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This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter. |
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I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away. |
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And there was a scare for Heskey when he needed treatment on a twisted knee after a challenge from Zech. |
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Then on to an aeroboat swamp ride, a popular weekend activity for locals and chance to scare some swamp creatures. |
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Governments whistle in the dark to scare off the demons as they come in range of the graveyard. |
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Dengue scare is certainly there because when the flood will recede, it will leave water pockets behind. |
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The speech began as an amalgam of scare tactics and bipartisan appeal. |
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Those of us old enough will also recall that Japan used to scare the pants off Americans and just about everyone else. |
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The story I've always heard, as a Teslaphile, says that the concept was invented by Thomas Edison to scare people away from alternating current. |
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Some are now raising a Red scare and even the spectre of Militant Tendency, which hasn't existed for over 20 years. |
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He is inordinately fond of the scare quote, a sign that he is not really sure of what he's talking about. |
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An incidental pleasure is his witty mastery of the scare quote and the square bracket. |
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Adrian Richards, 43, took the knife out in Aberdare to scare the boy racer who had driven at his 13-year-old son days earlier. |
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And good spots such as the Ruban Bleu can still scare up clinkable drinks for deserving people. |
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Having to deal with a bomb scare on his first day was a real baptism of fire for John. |
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Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League. |
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The Liberal vote collapsed, much of it coalescing to the Conservatives as a result of the scare around the forged Zinoviev Letter. |
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Indeed, there is a streak of Reaganomics that believes the only way to motivate American workers is to scare them straight with unemployment charts. |
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Have you heard the recent scare story about broken glass in baby food? |
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The scare quotes, alas, are necessary, for much of what is meant to have the effect of education winds up being decidedly uneducational, or educational in the wrong way. |
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Acoustic harassment devices and acoustic deterrent devices used by aquaculture facilities to scare away marine mammals emit loud and noxious underwater sounds. |
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Fireworks were invented in ancient China in the 7th century to scare away evil spirits, as a natural extension of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China of gunpowder. |
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I would be interested to know what evidence he has, if any, to substantiate this claim or is it just another scare story to try and claw back the Liberal vote? |
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Swedish researchers created a scare about acrylamides several years ago. |
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Lila's uncle found out he was hanging around and tried to scare him away, but Spence was daresome and he flirted openly with her, slowing down her work. |
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Another boat, with an outboard motor, drove back and forwards just behind the scare line to add to the disturbance and to pass instructions between boats. |
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The scare over anthrax infection in the US has drawn attention to the vulnerability of homes and businesses to chemical and bacteriological attack. |
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Yikes Daryl Hannah, that make-up could scare small children. |
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The pair didn't make it away with much cash, according to the Los Angeles Times, because the dog seemed to scare off the thieves with its ferocious barking. |
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The Delhi International Airport Ltd has awarded the contract to scare off birds to housekeeping specialists, Trendsetter, after the contract with the previous vendor expired. |
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But the Welsh Premiership leaders had to survive a scare after Cross Keys went ahead courtesy of a try by winger Nathan Trowbridge and a James Leadbeater penalty. |
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Montenegro gave Wales a scare in the first minute at the Cardiff City Stadium when Stevan Jovetic broke through, only to screw his shot well wide. |
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Apparently, that was all it took to scare the bejabbers outta the clerk. |
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I use the scare quotes to emphasize, pace Foucault and Derrida, the impossibilities and potentialities of the moment of meaning at the site of reading. |
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Despite my vigilant nature watch, sadly the reticent boa constrictor had better things to do than scare the bejesus out of a bunch of gawping tourists. |
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Police believe a party popper may be behind a bomb scare west of Brisbane. |
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The two zombielike defences on show are enough to scare any manager. |
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He has published an absurd scare story about nanotechnology. |
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But just as great power comes with great responsibility, great medical knowledge comes with great opportunities to scare the pants off yourself on a regular basis. |
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When the war with France had commenced, Britain had initially brought Hessian and Hanoverian troops to defend Britain from a feared invasion scare. |
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Or did the more-colorful males scare off would-be philanderers? |
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In the Twin Cities and beyond, Halloween lovers are working hard to scare the pants off you, make you dance till you drop and show you an all-around Spooktacular time. |
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And this should scare the bejabbers out of plan participants. |
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Along with the Red Scare and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg the United States ran open campaigns to eliminate communism in the United States. |
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Jewish-Americans during the Red Scare, African-Americans during the civil rights movement and Japanese-Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind. |
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Our heroes must defeat the robotic Scare Bears guarding the pilfered plushies, return them to their rightful owners, and teach kids that sharing is the right way. |
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Frankenstein is one of my fasciations in horror and science fiction that tickled my interest watching those late night movies on Scare theater as a kid. |
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