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King is not to be feared just for his words.
During the annus horribilis of 2016, many feared for the European Union’s survival.
In either case, it is widely feared that either of these outcomes is intended simply to appease America.
The prime minister’s statement was received with cheers, not the jeers that some of his aides had feared.
As the main source of negative information that is not sensitive to power, the CDS market is feared, and politicians want to eliminate it.
Mugabe, however, immediately appointed Mnangagwa, who is much feared and often linked to allegations of corruption, as Speaker of Parliament.
In the 1930’s, all European governments feared that breaking from the gold standard would be perceived as a sign of weakness.
In developing countries, capital controls to prevent financial crises are feared as obstacles to attracting the finance necessary for industrialization, and as potential sources of corruption as financial flows somehow pass through the hands of the Vice Minister of Finance's nephew-in-law.
Soon, however, those forces that feared losing power in this vast and important region began a determined counter-offensive.
The repression of the Greek Spring in 2015 led the left-wing Podemos party to lose its momentum in Spain; no doubt many of its potential voters feared a fate similar to ours.
Bank runs occur when people, worried that their deposits will not be honored, hastily withdraw their money, thereby creating the very bankruptcy that they feared.
In 2012, bloody clashes broke out between the Rohingya and the ethnic Rakhines, who feared becoming a minority in their home state.
Some qualified voters didn't get their bar codes; others feared that employers might use them to learn how they voted.
Any backtracking on these fronts would lead China into the type of trap that Pei has long feared is inevitable.
In the first few years of these unprecedented monetary-policy experiments, investors reasonably feared that they would fail or cause even greater financial instability.
Next to them were Algerians, feared by all the others and caged behind a triple row of barbed wire.
The aggressor gains an advantage from concealment and secrecy – hallmarks of the “hybrid” warfare that the Baltics have feared, particularly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Only two decades ago, many Americans feared being overtaken after Japanese per capita income surpassed that of the United States.
The long-run fiscal situation remains discouraging, if not as dire as we feared it would become.
It would deliver a financial body blow to the Midwest’s economy, Carter feared, and jeopardize his prospects for a second term.
They feared that the government would never be able to pay their pensions when due.
The global response to the crisis may not have been stellar, but neither has it been the free-for-all that might have been feared.
Trump had not, as many had feared, issued unsubstantiated statements or destabilized further the brittle regional status quo.
Noda feared that Ishihara, who was well known for nationalist grandstanding, would try to occupy the islands or find other ways to use them to provoke China.
Testing Times for Alzheimer’sLONDON – Alzheimer’s disease is by far the most common cause of dementia and one of the world’s most feared disorders.
Machiavelli also stressed the importance of the hard power of coercion and payment when a leader faces a tradeoff with the soft power of attraction, “since being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself.”
Machiavelli believed that when one must choose, it is better to be feared than to be loved.
None of this means that an external military option should be ruled out in the event of mass atrocity crimes occurring – or being imminently feared – at the hands of ISIS or anyone else.
Those criteria are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will actually be effective, doing more good than harm.
The Nigerian father who warned the US embassy in Lagos that he feared what his own son might do – before that same young man attempted to detonate a bomb aboard a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 – is an example of just this.
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