Voorbeelden van overawe

• Preferences went the other way for overawing, backed by 66%, and we may well conclude that its different treatment goes with having more than one syllable.

• No doubt we were all supposed to be overawed by it and to think that it represented good value for money.

• They went to local accountants, solicitors or banks, but often they were overawed.

• Lastly, and this is the advice of excellence, those who are interviewed need not be overawed as they are to-day.

• I know that there are some people who think that the proper way to keep crowds in order is to overawe them.

• Even the medium-size firms find themselves overawed by the voices of the big companies which carry so much sway in employers' associations.

• It is a clumsy attempt to overawe the authorities but it will not succeed.

• They invariably begin by feeling overawed at the prospect of conducting a quasi-judicial appeal without assistance.

• Do not let us be overawed by too much sentiment.

• I know that on occasion individuals and groups feel overawed by the advice which the large organisations have.

• That is too restrictive because we know that many parents are overawed, if not diffident, about the way in which schools are run.

• I am no less overawed this afternoon, but circumstances prevent my restraining myself in this debate.

• I am almost overawed by the experience and knowledge of speakers.

• He came here and was completely overawed by the place, as people are.

• Youngsters can be overawed by this presentation and its image.