cowed

We'd have a cowed China and built a single free and democratic Korea, essentially one large South Korea.

Zimbabwe: proof that even when shit goes completely off the rails, people can be cowed into putting up with it.

As a result people were cowed and did not want to say anything for fear he would get even more annoyed.

If they were cowed by the law chasing them, this wouldn't be in the news.

What The research actually observed is that in the presence of an observing angry/disapproving person, the kids were cowed, hestitant to play.

But late 00's MS -- spoiled on decades of success and perhaps a bit cowed by EU antitrust -- couldn't pull the trigger.

He escaped because those who were harmed by him were cowed into silence, or ignored by those whose job it was to help.

But in this instance reddit seems to have simply cowed to the pressure of publicity and dressed it up as a morality thing.

In the highly competitive world of private equity dealings, Andreessen Horowitz viewed a cowed, demoralized Kleiner as a less capable bidder for funding deals.

The media told people what to think, and, by and large, they thought what they were told, or were cowed into silence.

Were we cowed or did people make up their own minds to the extent that millions protested and (presumably) millions more disagreed?

They aren't being cowed to silence by the NSA.

I am just informing you cowed bougie woosies that your "oh noes my credit report" panics are not grounded in reality.

:( The roadblocks bit is what it is--if doctors were better at prescribing medications and hadn't cowed their colleagues and nurses into a culture of "oh, well, I shouldn't say anything" then automated systems wouldn't be so compelling from a safety standpoint.