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Many believed that the economy recovered only because of government spending on World War II, and many feared that with the end of the war, the economy would return to its doldrums.
As historian David Fromkin shows in his recent book Europe's Last Summer , von Moltke feared that Russia was gaining too much industrial strength, and that in a few years Russia could withstand a war with Germany.
Imperial Germany was not threatened by Russian industrial dominance in the way von Moltke feared, and its military calculations also failed.
The announcement of Abe’s decision to postpone the tax hike did not, as some feared, cause the market rates of Japanese government bonds to rise substantially – an indication that investors do not view the bonds as increasingly risky.
During the Cold War, many people feared that mankind might commit suicide abruptly, by waging a nuclear war.
Indeed, before vaccination made measles a rarity, the disease was widely feared, killing thousands of children every year.
The old Assad feared that open borders and the end of the politics of conflict might erode his one-party system.
For centuries, China has feared that the peninsula could become part of a chain of encirclement, or serve as an invasion route.
Indeed, Germany’s strategic position at the heart of Europe, as well as its huge economic and military potential, made it first a prize to be sought, and then, following Otto von Bismarck’s completion of German unification in 1871, a nation-state to be feared.
Indeed, rising interest rates in the United States and the ensuing likely rise in the value of the dollar could, it is feared, wreak havoc among emerging markets’ governments, financial institutions, corporations, and even households.
The more Muslims in Europe feel feared, rejected, and under siege by the non-Muslim majority, the more likely they are to support the extremists.
In particular, it is feared that the Bush administration wants to escalate the anti-terrorist war by spreading hostilities to states America denounces as "rogues."
The unit – which the DPRK asserts also killed civilians – was “hated and feared” by North Korean fighters and was considered a major threat to the regime.
It is also feared that Islamists may one day turn Turkey into a fundamentalist state.
But, because China has never succeeded in overcoming its inner control freak, it has backed leaders who are incompetent, corruptible, or universally feared and scorned.
Many feared that the example of the coup in Niger could encourage Nigeria’s military to move at the height of the country’s crisis in executive authority over President Umaru Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence.
Had the government not feared further popular unrest, Navalny might be going to prison for the next decade, with his brother spending up to eight years there with him.
Later, some investors feared that governments would unleash inflation to ease the burden of soaring public debt and address persistent unemployment.
Richard Feynman, the great theoretical physicist, has offered a simple yet powerful retort: "Does our understanding of the mechanisms of stellar activity diminish in any way our appreciation of the beauty and splendor of the night sky?"Three Humanitarian Challenges for Africa in 2018NAIROBI – In mid-2017, when a cholera outbreak in Somalia threatened to overwhelm local hospitals, health experts feared the worst.
This revival of the past was a big worry for West Europeans and Americans, who feared the re-emergence of historical enmities and tensions, which did indeed come to the fore in the former Yugoslavia.
While some American skeptics feared that Soviet scientists and KGB agents would steal American technology, they failed to notice that the visitors vacuumed up political ideas alongside scientific secrets.
After all, President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused in 1954 to send US troops to save the French at Dien Bien Phu because he feared that they would be “swallowed up by the divisions” in Vietnam.
Five years ago, many feared a repetition of the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
When strict sanctions were imposed on Iranian oil exports, many feared that world oil prices would spike, and that the sanctions would ultimately fail, owing to insufficient alternative supply.
It is difficult to remember that a little over two decades ago, many Americans feared being overtaken by Japan, not China.
Genetically modified crops are now grown on about one-tenth of the world’s cropland, and none of the disastrous consequences that we Greens feared have come to pass.
Offering assurances to a group of Connecticut Baptists who feared for their religious liberty, he pointed out that the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause built “a wall of separation between Church & State.”
He was the target of racial slurs, and feared that the verbal assaults would turn physical.
Long before COVID-19 appeared, northern Europeans feared that indebted southerners were looking for excuses to lay their hands on the northerners’ savings.
The truth is that China, precisely because it feared that a depreciation would trigger even stronger expectations of further devaluation (ultimately endangering China’s financial stability), abruptly canceled the reform just days after it was initiated and began to intervene heavily in the foreign-exchange market to arrest the currency’s decline.
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