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By failing to defend the constitution against internal enemies, Weimar's liberals showed that they feared taking a decision more than they feared taking on their enemies.
But I have feared for many years that large-scale immigration to the UK would produce a harmful populist response.
"Lula lite" may turn out to be even less of a leftist than anyone imagined or feared.
What is feared most, in addition to the rise of China, is the possible decline of the US.
That is to be feared here.
The feared implosion of Wall Street seems to have been avoided.
Protests against the decisions of the post-communist authorities, who were ousted in elections last year, at least had the appearance of some principled political motivation: we were against them and feared an attempted restoration.
As well as being feared, the Chinese are admired for being cleverer than everybody else.
These people feared the comeback of religion; that the Protestant or Catholic oppressiveness they knew first-hand might be replaced by equally oppressive Muslim codes of conduct.
Issuing money in this situation would almost certainly be inflationary, but the Fed might conclude otherwise, because the US has never been in this situation before, credit is now imploding, and the desperate credit-expansion measures implemented in 2008 proved not to be as bad as the critics feared.
Pessimists stress the feared reversal of private capital flows, owing to the US Federal Reserve’s tapering of its purchases of long-term assets, as well as the difficulties of so-called second- and third-generation structural reforms and the limits to “catch up” growth outside of manufacturing.
Not bad for a summit that some feared would not happen at all: an earlier meeting planned for April in Bangkok had been disrupted by protesters – “red shirts” who support ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
On the other hand, if the ECB preferred to let major countries, such as Italy, default on their debts, this would likely weaken the euro even further, as investors feared a contagion of defaults.
Mao Zedong, on visiting and talking to experts at a modern steel plant in Manchuria, is reported to have lost confidence that the backyard furnaces were a good idea after all, but feared the effects of a loss of momentum.
Interethnic violence – which many feared – has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.
But that is entirely because the Saudis have behaved since 2003 as if they feared Iraq’s Shia – and their own – much more than they do the Iranian regime.
The last time European democracies were overtaken by radical political movements, in the 1930s, demagogues based their support largely on the old lower middle class, whose members feared being dispossessed and pushed into poverty by uncontrolled economic forces.
Voters not only feared handing over positions of real authority to unqualified counter-elites; they feared endangering their country’s image and damaging its position in Europe and beyond.
Just a few weeks ago, it was feared that Syria’s crumbling regime might transfer part of its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction to Hezbollah, or that some of that arsenal might fall into jihadis’ hands.
Yet we in the West feared the Red Army – and with good reason.
Europe’s future, however, may not be as dark as is feared.
For this reason, it is to be feared that the governance model will soon require reform, and that the EU will have to decide where to rely more on reformed national frameworks (for example, for budgetary discipline) and where to allocate more responsibility to the European Union (for example, for banking supervision).
In the middle of the twentieth century, people feared that the computers and communications of the current information revolution would lead to the type of centralized control depicted in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
The German authorities feared that the country’s export-oriented economy would suffer from the wide exchange-rate swings that are the norm for global reserve currencies.
At the beginning of the Afghan campaign many military "experts" feared that the US would face a similar fate.
They feared for their jobs, and an underpaid and premature retirement.
Obama has been better than feared on international trade.
They feared going the way of the Catholic pope, who lost considerable authority during the Protestant Reformation, when the printing press played a key role in spreading new ideas to the faithful.
Producers and traders of draft animals feared mechanization, which threatened their way of life.
It feared a return to street protests.
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