Examples of feared

• He reassured people that law-abiding citizens would have nothing to fear from the enquiries.

• It was feared that the break-up of the oil tanker would result in further pollution.

• The police feared that the crowd were becoming disorderly and so they moved in with horses.

• The committee kept the results of the survey to itself, fearing a bad public reaction.

• The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimize their violent actions.

• Perhaps these film-makers feared that the presence of the ' real' would prove too disruptive.

• He feared both the loss of secrets and the introduction of lax methods.

• Such a system, it was feared, would open the door to 'interference from central quarters'.

• She feared death much but felt it was coming soon, which caused a state of urgency in her.

• It is thus not clear whether all cases feared possession before or during their illness.

• Five per cent of those questioned feared they would become more restless, irritable and ' exited\nervous\flustered ' again.

• He feared, after having seen everything there was, that nothing would be left to cause surprise.

• In his view, however, straitened circumstances and food shortage, whether actual or feared, could not justify contraceptive use.

• A prospective study of the relationship between feared consequences of falling and avoidance of activity in community-living older people.

• Indeed, while nursing homes were feared by some, others believed that they would have benefits for their peers.

• By contrast, only one-third of the patients feared such a development.

• He was in favor of obligatory instruction for children because he feared that otherwise parents would exploit them.

• They may have feared that the management would tamper with the time.

• Nursing homes were both feared and, in a form that met their cultural needs, seen as places that should be built.

• Alternatively it was reported that villagers feared broadcasting would reduce the rains.