Overawe

No wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no artifice deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates. ❋ Various (N/A)

No wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no artifice deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates, In the deep sense, no vile or vulgar person ever enters there. ❋ Unknown (1909)

"I saw no attempt to 'overawe' us," said the young girl. ❋ Henry James (1879)

In the fifth and sixth centuries, Christian monks served as private militias, holy head-breakers whom charismatic bishops could turn out at will to sack pagan temples, to rough up or kill opponents, and to overawe rival theologians. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is well that we are thus shielded by the familiarity of what is at once so certain and so unfathomable, from an astonishment which would otherwise absorb and overawe the function of that which is its object. ❋ Carolyn Vega (2012)

He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people … ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organize to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The attack Monday was "another outrageous attempt by the banned organization to overawe the established authority," Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said in a statement. ❋ Krishna Pokharel (2010)

Because this is an essentially unregulated space, firms move quickly, building massive advantages that can overawe competitors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elizabeth's account books, her correspondence, government depositions and the letters of her servants all suggest that her youth combined with her relative lack of status, after 1536, meant that the princess was not able to overawe her staff as Mary did hers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In return, Mary was equally determined to overawe her subjects with her household wealth, to declare her undoubted right to the throne by displaying for all to see in her richly attired domestic staff. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is there also to separate, to mark off, and to overawe. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, if Blair was so convinced of the importance of creating a free, democratic state in Iraq to overawe a global threat, why did he abrogate his responsibilities in Basra? ❋ Unknown (2010)