But we cannot be cowed into not speaking our minds.

And those who , when an oppressive wrong is inflicted on them , ( are not cowed but ) help and defend themselves .

And those who , when an oppressive wrong is inflicted on them , ( are not cowed but ) help and defend themselves .

Candidate Romney was so cowed by his party s obsession with low taxes that he never put forth a budget that added up.

At the same time, while many did not agree with the Nazis, they felt cowed or, for some reason, chose to remain silent.

But for the past twenty years their blatant political chicanery has been met with a potent new force the massed voices of ordinary people who refuse to be cowed.

The Tunisian people, led by a frustrated middle class that refused to be cowed, thus provide a healthy reminder of the steady and compelling forces driving the behavior of individuals and nations nowadays.

But, while history is replete with murderous regimes applauded by cowed and deceived masses, the greater risk for democratic nations is that their citizens withdraw into apathy and short term thinking for immediate gratification.

This pattern has recurred throughout history, from the French Revolution all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although markets may have been cowed into submission for now, the cracks in the eurozone s political foundations are beginning to show.

It would therefore have meant one with a tail perhaps from the habit of animals displaying their tails in flight ( turning tail ), or from a dog's habit of putting its tail between its legs when it is afraid or cowed.

I find that number quite worrying public debate and a diversity of opinion are, as Ohad notes in this post, essential characteristics of a healthy democracy and anyone who has expressed even the mildest anti war sentiment can testify to the intimidating responses that have, I noticed, cowed many people into silence.

Opposition parties, human rights groups, and other government critics, hitherto cowed by a seemingly omnipotent Obasanjo and PDP machine, have found a new lease on life. Obasanjo, besieged and angry that friends at home and abroad (particularly in the United States and Europe) betrayed him by aiding his political opponents in killing the amendment, is determined to settle scores.