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The third reason to be wary of bankers’ confidence that the regulatory job is complete is that once they believe it, they will behave accordingly – less frightened of failure and thus willing to take on more risk.
In particular, Americans were frightened by Japanese consumer products – televisions, which wiped out domestic production, and automobiles, which seemed so malignly efficient.
In a world of increasing mobility, an aging Europe will badly need the immigrants of whom it is so frightened – and it should give them a voice in local politics soon (say, one year) after they arrive.
Scared Silly about Global WarmingThe continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened.
Frightened populations can all too easily summon images of radical refugees slipping across borders intent on wreaking mayhem.
And for a truly frightened few, Brussels and Mecca have both come to be seen as mortal threats.
Men report handling of their testicles and penises, TSA officials are instructed to open and peer down waistbands, and YouTube is now rife with videos of frightened children being – to describe it accurately – sexually molested, though this is the last thing most TSA officials wish to do.
One possible explanation is that Johnson was thoroughly frightened by America’s right wing.
In the face of a world frightened by Islam, Mahathir was able to affirm a neglected facet of his leadership, repeatedly reminding the world that he presided over the one country in the world where a Muslim majority and large non-Muslim minorities live in peace.
But he’s Russian, his frightened wife insisted, whereupon the three – apparently mellowed by drink – apologized and let him go.
Europe, then, is frightened by the prospect of more immigration by Turks who find it almost impossible to assimilate.
Demand tends to grow very rapidly in the year or two after a recession as consumers buy the houses, cars and durable goods they had been too frightened to pay for during the recession.
The region’s flexible states are frightened of war.
We must recognize that and understand that it emerges not only when the public is apathetic or frightened, but also when there is no apparent stable advanced guard, such as powerful political parties, which choose the leaders and control them.
Old people are so frightened of being killed by homicidal doctors that they wear bracelets that read: “Do not euthanize me.”
Russian Foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev has frightened the Baltic Republics when he made clear, early this year, the Kremlin’s claim to protect the Russian minorities outside its borders.
The Russian people might be horrified and frightened.
If they did, they would only be frightened by how much they will need to accumulate to live a decent life (beyond bare social security), given the likely persistence of rock-bottom interest rates.
Nobody likes to be bullied, and no American wants the US to be frightened or coerced by the brutal and thuggish actions of car bombers.
Its gas blackmail of Ukraine frightened the entire Continent, and its new Baltic pipeline to Germany has provoked howls of outrage from Poland and the Baltic states, which are angry at losing the economic and political dividends a land route gives them.
Frightened by its own waning popularity, it does not ring alarm bells loudly enough.
Faced with this, governments must not be frightened into short-term protectionist fixes.
The astonishing outburst of jubilation that broke out across the US – and in countries around the world – following Trump’s defeat was a testament to how frightened people have been by his presidency.
Cosmopolitan liberals are not frightened by the word.
We must show that our common institutions are able and willing to listen to the demands of a frightened public, and that we can act together to protect our frontiers and bring greater security to our unstable eastern and southern neighborhoods.
In the Western world, decades of climate-change exaggeration have produced frightened children, febrile headlines, and grand political promises that aren’t being delivered.
Let them all say what they like: anything is better than the misfortune...Anyhow, it would be better now while there is still time!''I don't understand,' she said, thoroughly frightened.
'Aren't you frightened?' asked Kitty's old aunt Mary Dmitrievna.
She herself was frightened at the rapture with which he inspired her; she sought, but could not find, anything in him that was not beautiful.
'Well, then, come in,' said Kitty to Mary Nikolavna, who had regained her self-control; 'or better still, you go on and send for me,' she continued, noticing her husband's frightened look, and then returned to their room.
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