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But when little black girl Carolyn Crawford falls down a well, she's feared to have been kidnapped, and this after having last being seen with a white man in town.
"Cauldron of Death" is incredibly fast-paced and, surprisingly enough, the script dissociates itself from all the feared clichés and taboos.
I feared this movie would be WB fare because of the actors involved and the many young audience members at the film festival where I saw it who seemed, shall we say, infatuated by certain actors in the film.
Small towns can be most unforgiving about differences, especially differences that are hated and feared, like homosexuality.
Its funny reading that the studio tried to dub over Hoskins dialogue because they feared American audiences wouldn't understand it.
Don Quixote's adventures were well done and the special effects didn't ruin the movie as I had feared, but several well-known adventures, such as a fight with a caged lion, were noticeably missing.
The best supporting star is Walter Long who plays an extremely tough and much feared prisoner "The Tiger".
The best evidence for continuing confidence in the integrity of US securities markets comes from foreign investors, who would be among the first to flee if they feared rampant corporate fraud and inadequate regulation.
The news media suspiciously stopped reporting on these facts, later protesting (too much) that they were under threat and feared instigating further violence.
She feared that independent central banks would serve the interests of their banking “clients,” rather than those of the economy as a whole.
Bush feared that if this act of war went unanswered, it would encourage further mayhem.
In the middle of the twentieth century, people feared that computers and new means of communications would create the kind of central governmental control dramatized in George Orwell’s 1984.
Against this background, a stalemate in the Donbas seems more likely than an outright offensive aimed at occupying the remainder of the region and establishing a land corridor to Crimea – the outcome that many in the West initially feared.
China’s leaders have long feared publicly visible divisions within the elite, given the risk that infighting could expose sensitive secrets.
By the early 2000s, former Soviet republics like Georgia and Ukraine, which had not gained admission to either NATO or the EU, feared being left behind.
The NPT has been the single most crucial factor in limiting the world’s nuclear-armed states to the current nine, rather than the 20-30 widely feared a generation ago.
Despite lack of any visible progress toward ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, the signs are encouraging that Egypt and others in the region want to keep trying, and will not use the issue of a WMD-free zone to blow up the review conference, as had been feared.
As a result, many states feared federal assumption would mean that their taxes would go to pay northern speculators or to retire the debt of big borrowers, like Massachusetts.
The mutual-fund industry, one can assume, feared that the SEC’s rules would induce customers to redirect much of their cash directly into banks.
BRUSSELS – August was quieter than feared on the European bond markets.
Aside from their wariness of the US, past Brazilian presidents also feared their domestic business establishment, which never met a tariff or a non-tariff barrier it did not like.
Machiavelli famously said that it is more important for a prince to be feared than to be loved.
We feared that the voting would take place without the presence of our poll watchers.
They feared that it would merely give the Israelis another photo opportunity: After the handshakes, ordinary Palestinians would continue to suffer under the occupation.
And, in politics, as Machiavelli pointed out long ago, it is more important to be feared than loved.
The assumption is that only real pressure will finally force Sudan’s government to embrace the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, negotiate with the West, disband the feared Janjaweed militia, allow refugees from the country’s brutal civil war to return to their villages, and make peace with Southern rebels.
He feared that unless Egyptians could learn modern industrial technologies and develop an economy prosperous enough to support modern industrial armies, his descendants would be mere puppets of British and French viceroys.
One reason why we moved more slowly on democracy was that China’s leaders had made clear that they feared Hong Kong’s people would think the road was being cleared to become an independent state, like Singapore.
When we began the program, only about half of the women we worked with said they felt empowered in their homes; many feared their husbands.
Far from producing the outcome that they feared in 2003, Bush’s wars in the Middle East left Iran as the most influential actor in Iraq.
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