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In spring of 2006, she reported her ex-husband to the police for death-threats and assaults after a long period of terrorisation.

This organisation quickly garnered a reputation for indiscriminate terrorisation of the Macedonian populace.

The terrorisation of the Jewish minority by Arab nationalists in the 1940s and '50s drove most of them into exile.

In its general guidelines, the BBFC says that "works may be refused classification" if they include "graphic rape or torture" and "sadistic violence or terrorisation".

They can never be defended but, ladies and gentlemen, let us not equate such acts of revenge with the ethnic cleansing, the systematic terrorisation there has been over the last ten years.

But now the pupils had outdistanced their mentors, and they had developed flesh-crawling refinements and more terribly effective methods of terrorisation such as the others had not dreamed of.

A communiqué was issued this evening by the Polish Government in which they completely deny the German allegations of the terrorisation of the German minority in Poland.

They usually included purification and some test of courage and fortitude - often severe and painful - terrorisation, instruction in tribal lore, in sexual knowledge, in the making of charms, and in religious and magical matters generally, and often a ritual of death and resurrection.