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522 examples of Frightened in a sentence

Allowing a state of affairs in which Jews are frightened to leave their homes?
Of course, another reason I was so frightened to enter his office was his legendary temper.
Five earlier presidential bids by Jorge Batlle failed, many believe, because he promised daring, free-market ideas that frightened voters.
That reduction in potential deficits and debt can by itself give a boost to the economy in 2011 by calming fears that an exploding national debt would eventually force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates – perhaps sharply if foreign buyers of US Treasuries suddenly became frightened by the deficit prospects.
This happens when a flock of geese suddenly takes flight from a lake, "blindly" following the flock's first frightened member.
First, Jewish families, frightened of the future, will increasingly leave Europe for Israel or the US, underscoring yet another disgraceful chapter in the history of European anti-Semitism, albeit this time imported from the Middle East.
Egypt will face enormous economic difficulties, exacerbated by recent events, which have frightened off tourists, deterred investment, and kept many from working.
In doing so, he has connected with a voting population that is not only tired of politicians’ shenanigans but also frightened by what seems at times like a breakdown of the rule of law under pressure from growing (if localized) drug-related violence.
Although this example may suggest that Africans are united against homosexuality, they are not; gay advocates are simply terrified of speaking out, frightened that their support will be interpreted as an admission that they are gay.
The difficulty with implementing this policy has been that its preventive aspects – social support and reintegration of delinquents – appear to the frightened population living in the affected areas as being “soft on crime” and overly generous.
That is hard when debt levels have increased, jobs are unstable, and the middle class is frightened.
Most of al-Shabaab’s fighters are forced conscripts – young boys offered up by frightened, destitute households in lieu of taxes.
Otherwise, what goes up will come down, leaving households even more frightened of financial markets.
The first temptation, characteristic of frightened societies, is a rush to embrace so-called "traditional" values, with their implications of withdrawal, closure, intolerance, and even hatred.
He was a grown man to everyone but Nanny, always remaining for her a small, pink, frightened, tear-stained child.
The group's power grab has frightened its adversaries, leading them to seek new alliances that could imperil the state's security.
Attempting to leverage with private money the new sovereign-debt bank known as the European Financial Stability Facility will fail for several reasons, but the simplest is that frightened private investors have already fled from European banks.
I recall now only the first hushed, frightened whispers of disaster from a family friend.
A cursory glance at the Japanese press, or even the kind of books piled high in Japanese bookstores, shows just how frightened the Japanese are.
All this has been horribly turned on its head; in place of our forebears' robust values, we substituted timid, frightened rationalizations for all sorts of voodoo ideologies and practices.
Frightened governments in the region realized that the type of violence occurring almost daily in Iraq was starting to spill across the country’s borders.
Back then, the Kremlin was frightened by the possibility of a so-called “color revolution” breaking out in Russia.
That is because the leaders of the Republican Party – which controls both the House of Representatives and the Senate – are frightened of Trump’s base.
A forceful revival of Russian imperialism, or a war of civilizations with the Muslim world, might provide a threat so overbearing that a frightened Europe would resume its Cold War dependency on America.
For more than twenty years, anti-abortionists have so frightened America's Congress that it left the field of assisted reproduction unregulated at the national level.
Is Saudi Arabia’s Sunni government more concerned and frightened by Shia Islam than it is committed to Arab unity and the Palestinian cause?
The collateral effect, however, is that even honest officials are now too frightened to help corporations to navigate India’s maze of bureaucracy.
The IPCC report makes it clear that exaggerations of this magnitude have no basis in science – though clearly they frightened people and perhaps will win Gore an Academy Award.
But they are wrong to be frightened by these factors.
And they have likely become even more frightened following the arrest of Zhou Yongkang, the longtime head of China’s security services and the highest-ranking member of the Politburo yet detained.
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