Voorbeelden van fear

• Then he turned towards me and I was suddenly gripped by fear.

• I finally mastered my fear of flying.

• I was trembling with fear.

• You could tell she wasn't lying from the fear in her voice.

• Ten years later her worst fears were realized.

• 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.

• Many archaeologists regarded interest in theory with a certain suspicion, fearing that it might be a flight from the complex practical reality of archaeology.

• Rather, the form of association as such is feared, because there is the possibility that it might be combined with a dangerous content.

• The older generation of colonial visitors were thus free of the fears of their youthful counterparts at the prospect of vulgarity and isolation.

• Now, is the prospect of an endless interventionism something to be feared, because of the increasing power of the state that accompanies it?

• The new research alleviated these fears to some extent, at least for certain problems.

• She is powerful, an active presence, whose role is to give, care, and establish closeness, but who also evokes strong fears.

• In order to persuade, a representation had also to respond to the expectations, fears, and desires of subjects.

• Is the scheme meeting your expectations - hopes and fears?

• Discussed women's fears and expectations about changes in their bodies and feelings of sexuality due to cancer and its treatment.

• People who presumed that their names appeared in lists of suspects feared to petition the authorities for travel documents.

• When the patients experience fears or terminal illness, emotional support becomes important.

• As was feared, the magnitude of bad loans discovered at the bank upon its collapse was of a much larger magnitude than disclosed earlier.

• He discovered he could extend his own influence by fanning the ecclesiastics' fears that the emperor was no longer the best guarantor of their autonomy.

• Catholics claimed that they feared the seigneurs, who ' had always oppressed them ', presumably by denying them the freedom to worship publicly in their own church.

• Railroads gave rise to new geo-strategic considerations, and aroused new fears and visions, both militarily and economically.